Template:Selected article/doc

For the generic version of this template, please see Template:Selected X

This template is used to configure the articles found in the Selected article section found on most Wikipedia Portal main pages. It is used on the article pages that are linked to the Selected article sub-page, e.g. Portal:Foo/Selected article/1. For the quickest and easiest way to create the Portal:Foo/Selected bar sub-page and related article links, use one of the Numbered subpages templates.

Template layout


Usage
It is unnecessary to include braces, quotation marks or other wiki-markup in the template. The |text= field does allow the use of wiki-markup at the contributor's discretion.


 * image - Image relating to the subject of the article.
 * size  - Set the size of the image here, it will default to 250px if no size is specified.
 * side  - Set the location of the image here, it will default to left if no side is specified. Use right or center as the variable.
 * caption- Image caption, if any.
 * text  - A brief summary of the subject.
 * link  - Wikilink to the main article about the subject.
 * archive - Using this field with a value of no will remove the More selected articles link in the lower left corner. Use this field if you are using the |footer= parameter in the random box-header subpage template on the main portal page.

Example
Will produce this: