FooIndustry companies (dis)established in YYYY is used to create categories of the form "FooIndustry companies established in YYYY" or "FooIndustry companies disestablished in YYYY", where:
- "FooIndustry" is the industry involved, e.g. "Retail" or "Manufacturing" or "Mass media"
- YYYY is a 4-digit year.
e.g.
- Category:Retail companies established in 1707
- Category:Manufacturing companies disestablished in 1980
- Category:Financial services companies established in 1812
- Category:Mass media companies disestablished in 1977
The templates creates navigation tables and puts the page into the correct parent categories: "Category:FooIndustry companies by year of (dis)establishment", and other specified by parameters below
Usage
Simple usage
{{FooIndustry companies (dis)established in YYYY}}
No parameters are needed, but optional parameters are available to change the parent categories.
Default parent category
By default, the category is placed in the parent "Category:Companies (dis)established in YYYY".
For example, on Category:Retail companies established in 1959, {{FooIndustry companies (dis)established in YYYY}} will cause the category to be parented in Category:Companies established in 1959.
Specifying parent categories
For subtypes of company, the default parent "Category:Companies (dis)established in YYYY" will be inappropriate.
Alternative parent categories may be specified by using up to four unnamed parameters, of the form {{FooIndustry companies (dis)established in YYYY|parent1|parent2|parent3|parent4}}
- Examples
- On Category:Airlines established in 2010, use
{{FooIndustry companies (dis)established in YYYY|Transport companies}} - On Category:Restaurants established in 2007, use
{{FooIndustry companies (dis)established in YYYY|Food and drink companies |Hospitality companies}} - On Category:Radio stations established in 1924, use
{{FooIndustry companies (dis)established in YYYY|Entertainment companies|Mass media companies}}
Portals
By default, the template generates a link to Portal:Companies, and to a decade portal if it exists.
Up to two additional portals may be specified, by the parameters |portal= and |portal2=
- Examples
- On Category:Airlines established in 2010, use
{{FooIndustry companies (dis)established in YYYY|Transport companies|portal=Aviation}} - On Category:Food and drink companies established in 2010, use
{{FooIndustry companies (dis)established in YYYY|portal=Food|portal=Drink}}