Template:Topic cat/doc

Usage
For a typical topic category, cut and paste the following sample code, and customize it as explained below.

Customizations: Additional, less frequent customizations:
 * 1) Put categories below the template.  People get , and at least one descendant of Category:People by occupation; countries get.
 * 2) Optionally, provide an  ; it completes the descriptive sentence,
 * This is the category for,.
 * 1) Optionally, provide an image, and perhaps a caption for the image; additional smaller images can also be included (see below).
 * 2) Check all the sister links, and adjust or remove them as appropriate.
 * 3) * When looking for an alternative on any project, don't forget to check namespaces that aren't on the default search. (E.g., Wikisource default search only checks main and author.)
 * 4) *  overrides the default Commons link,  .    suppresses the Commons link entirely.
 * 5) *  overrides the default Wikipedia link,  .    suppresses the Wikipedia link entirely.
 * 6) * If a sister doesn't have a suitable page in the English project but does in some other language, the latter may be linked by attaching the language prefix to the target; for example, if Andrés Manuel López Obrador has no page at English Wikiquote, but does have one at Spanish Wikiquote, one might specify.
 * An additional parameter  can be used to specify a supplementary note on how to use the category, beyond what is implied by the introductory sentence.  The note is displayed as a separate paragraph after the introductory sentence.
 * An additional parameter  can be set to non-blank, to insert the word "the" before the topic name in the descriptive sentence.
 * An additional parameter  can be set to non-blank, to suppress the comma between topic and non-blank   in the descriptive sentence.
 * An additional parameter  can be used to specify a different name for the topic in the descriptive sentence, instead of.
 * An additional parameter  can be used to specify a different target for the primary link in the descriptive sentence; if used, this replaces the entire wikipedia target, including the " ", so it can link to a page on any sister project, or to a page on Wikinews.
 * An additional parameter  can be used to specify an external URL.  (Use with discretion, please.)
 * An additional parameter  can be used to override the default size of the main image (default is 250px).
 * An additional parameter  can be used to override the default alt text for the main image (default is   with the file extension stripped off).
 * Any of additional parameters,  ,  ,  ,  ,   can be used to provide additional smaller images.  When using  , consider suffixing the file name with.
 * An additional parameter  can be used to specify a sister link to that project.
 * An additional parameter  can be set either to , suppressing the portal link even if the portal exists; or to a different portal-space page name to use instead of   (so the page checked for, and linked if it exists, is  ).
 * An additional parameter  can be set to non-blank, to suppress the list of latest news.
 * Parameter  can be set to , or omitted, to omit the sister links section altogether.
 * An additional parameter  can be used to specify what to list under Latest stories; this should be used if the category name contains any of certain special characters, such as apostrophe, that prevent  from generating a correct article-list due to a known bug in the wiki software.
 * Removing parameter  prevents the latest-article list from offering a scroll-down button.