Template:Year nationality television seasons category/doc

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Creates a category of the form "YYYY nationality television seasons", where YYYY is a 4-digit year and nationality is a valid nationality.

e.g.

Usage

<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline>Template:Year nationality television seasons is for use only on category pages whose title is of the form "YYYY Fooish television seasons", where YYYY is a 4-digit year 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:

Category:Errors reported by television chronology category header templates (population: 9)

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Errors include:

The page is not in the category namespace
The page's title does not take the form "YYYY 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