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Creates a category of the form "YYY0s nationality television seasons", where YYY0s is a 4-digit decade and nationality is a valid nationality.
e.g.
- Category:1970s American television seasons
- Category:1980s Japanese television seasons
- Category:2010s Chinese television seasons
Usage
<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline>This is not a category page.
Template:Decade nationality television seasons is for use only on category pages whose title is of the form "YYY0s Fooish television seasons", where YYY0s is a 4-digit decade and "Fooish" is a nationality (e.g. "Russian" or "Egyptian")</syntaxhighlight>
No parameters needed
Errors
If the template is used on invalid page, an error message is generated and the page is categorised in:
Errors include:
- The page is not in the category namespace
- The page's title does not take the form "YYY0s nationality television seasons"
- The value of "nationality" does not correspond to a country name. The conversion is made using {{GetCountryNameFromAdjective}}, so the problem may be a glitch in that template's lookup table