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== Issues ==
== Issues ==
The template does '''not''' work together with other title modification templates: you need to use DISPLAYTITLE directly and make sure it's the last DISPLAYTITLE on this page. For example, to make "Example" italic and lowercase, use <code><nowiki>{{DISPLAYTITLE:''example''}}</nowiki></code>.
The template does '''not''' work together with other title modification templates: you need to use DISPLAYTITLE directly and make sure it's the last DISPLAYTITLE on this page. For example, to make "Example" italic and lowercase, use <code><nowiki>{{DISPLAYTITLE:''example''}}</nowiki></code>.

When using the template on redirect pages, the template must be moved ''after'' the redirect, since otherwise it will break the redirection. This, however, limits the template to have an effect only when viewing the redirect page directly. Nevertheless, it is still useful in this scenario in order to documment the proper capitalization of a term.


== Technical ==
== Technical ==

Revision as of 18:30, 6 August 2013

Usage

  • Attention: Please do not subst this template.

Simply add the tag {{lowercase title}} at the beginning of a page (and optionally, at the beginning of its talk page). There are no parameters. The tag will only decapitalize the first letter of the page's name in the title at the beginning of the page. Examples:

Page name Will display
EBay, IPod, etc. eBay, iPod, etc.
Talk:EBay Talk:eBay

Issues

The template does not work together with other title modification templates: you need to use DISPLAYTITLE directly and make sure it's the last DISPLAYTITLE on this page. For example, to make "Example" italic and lowercase, use {{DISPLAYTITLE:''example''}}.

When using the template on redirect pages, the template must be moved after the redirect, since otherwise it will break the redirection. This, however, limits the template to have an effect only when viewing the redirect page directly. Nevertheless, it is still useful in this scenario in order to documment the proper capitalization of a term.

Technical

This template wraps the magic word DISPLAYTITLE so that it works automatically in any namespace (main, talk, template, etc.) to decapitalise the first letter of the name of a page it is transcluded on.

See also

Title changing or correcting templates + magic word
Wiki markup
Transclusion from template:
Involves Correct name Actual article name
{{Italic title}} Title in italics To Kill a Mockingbird To Kill a Mockingbird
{{Italic title|all=yes}} Complete title in italics, including parentheses Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)
{{Italic title|string=Ally McBeal}} Phrase of |string= in italics List of Ally McBeal episodes List of Ally McBeal episodes
{{Italic title|all=yes|string=Fringe}} Phrase of |string= in italics; also looks in parentheses Peter (Fringe episode) Peter (Fringe episode)
{{Italic disambiguation}} Disambiguation in italics The End (Lost) The End (Lost)
{{Lowercase title}} Lowercase first character eBay EBay
{{Lowercase title|italic=yes}} Lowercase first character and place title in italics, not including disambiguation iCarly (soundtrack) ICarly (soundtrack)
{{Lowercase title|italic=yes|force=yes}} Lowercase first character and place title in italics, including disambiguation
{{Lowercase title|dab=yes}} Lowercase first character and place disambiguation in italics iSpy (Modern Family) ISpy (Modern Family)
{{Italic title prefixed|17}} Italicize after the number characters at the beginning of the title German battleship Bismarck German battleship Bismarck
Magic word
{{DISPLAYTITLE:_NSAKEY}} Various _NSAKEY NSAKEY
Title corrections
{{Correct title|reason=bracket}} < > [ ] { } Benzo[a]pyrene Benzo(a)pyrene
{{Correct title|reason=#}} # Pilot #5 Pilot No. 5
{{Correct title|reason=:}} : DK: King of Swing DK King of Swing