Template:Decade nationality television series category/sandbox
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Creates a category of the form "YYYY nationality television series", where YYY0s is a 4-digit decade and nationality is a valid nationality.
e.g.
- Category:1950s American television series
- Category:1980s Japanese television series
- Category:2010s Chinese television series
Usage
{{Decade nationality television series category}}
No parameters needed.
This adds parent categories including "NN-century Fooian television series", but only if that category exists. Where a country existed for less than a century, this parent is not required to exist; see e.g. Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2023 November 29#Category:20th-century Yugoslav television series.
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 series"
- 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