Template:S-start

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S-Start is the initial component in a template series for succession boxes. It replaces the pervious formats for succession tables but still allows for most of their use.

Templates Discussed on this Page
This template is to be used in coordination with the following:
 * Template:s-start - Opens a new Wikitable
 * Template:s-bef - For listing predecessors
 * Template:s-aft - For listing successors
 * Template:s-ttl - For listing titles
 * Template:end or Template:end box - For closing Wikitables
 * Template:s-hou - For house/family information
 * Template:s-non - For no successors
 * Template:s-new - For new titles
 * Template:s-vac - For vacant titles (predecessor or successor)
 * Template:s-inc - For incumbants
 * Template:s-tul - For titular monarchs (legitimate but not ruling)
 * Template:s-ptd - For pretenders (unable to rule due to alternate power)

Instructions for Use
To use, follow these instructions:
 * Enter the start field so the program recognizes the table
 * Enter the name of the predecessor
 * Enter the title of the person on whose page you are working.
 * Enter the name of the successor:
 * If they held additional titles after, place the following and repeat as necessary:
 * Once everything is done, type:
 * Enter the name of the successor:
 * If they held additional titles after, place the following and repeat as necessary:
 * Once everything is done, type:
 * Once everything is done, type:
 * Once everything is done, type:

S-start, s-bef, s-ttl, s-aft, end
That is how to do the most simple one. When it is done, it will look like this:

Which will look something like this:

Rows
A row marker can be created in nearly all the templates immediately following the "s-" field. They help designate if someone gained a position in office from another person, or lost a position while in office, as well as other more complex scenarios.

In most fields, simply type:

The number corresponds to the number of rows this name or title overlaps in regard to the other rows. Lists of title-holders are usually in order of the granting of the title, beginning with the oldest titles held. All successive titles should be noted, though titles tied together permanently can be listed in the same field.

Row separators
Remember to place |- between every row on the list. This text is already imbedded into most of the templates but if you are ending with Template:s-vac, place this character or the computer will not recognize a new row.

S-new
To create a table that begins with a newly created title, use this (entering the reason behind the title's creation is optional):

Template:s-new (with others)

Which looks like:

S-inc
To create a table for someone who is the incumbant (current title holder), use the following:

Template:s-non (with others)

Which looks like:

S-ttl
To create a table for someone ruled with the aide of another (regent, coruler, &c.), it is integrated into the standard s-ttl template. Entering a regent is always optional as is entering the title-holder's dates or when the regent(s) ruled. Currently this template supports up to three regents. Instructions:

Template:s-reg (with others)
 * |regent2=TITLE OF REGENT|years2=INSERT YEARS HERE}}
 * |regent3=TITLE OF REGENT|years3=INSERT YEARS HERE}}
 * |regent2=TITLE OF REGENT|years2=INSERT YEARS HERE}}
 * |regent3=TITLE OF REGENT|years3=INSERT YEARS HERE}}
 * |regent3=TITLE OF REGENT|years3=INSERT YEARS HERE}}

Which looks like:

S-tul
Titular rulers are people who legitimately deserve a title yet are somehow incapable of securing it, as in the case of Louis XVII of France, heir to the throne during the early years of the French Revolution. Titular rulers generally mean that their title will again be inherited by someone with power and remains only temporarily suspended. There is generally only one titular claimant to a title.

To use this code, do the following:



When complete, this form appears as thus:

S-ptd
Pretenders are people who may or may not have a rightful claim to a title, but regardless do not possess any legitimate authority. Bonnie Prince Charles, or Charles III to the Jacobites, is probably the most famous case of a pretender. While he was the legitimate heir to his father, the Glorious Revolution overruled that power in favour of his half-sister. Therefore, he lost his legitimacy to govern but still claimed his hereditary titles. Pretenders are not always successive, as titular leaders generally are, and there can be multiple pretenders at the same time (as in France's Legitimists and Orleanists).

To use this code, do the following:



When complete, this form appears as thus:

S-non
To create a table for someone whose title expired, went extinct, or otherwise went into disuse upon its abandonment or their death OR for a title that needs description but does not fall under the other predecessor or successor forms, use the following (this form requires |- if it is used in a complex table}:

Template:s-non (with others)

Which looks like:

S-vac
Vacant titles are not currently held by anyone, often known as interregnum periods for monarchs. This table cell can go before or after the title of the individual and is meant to designate if they have no predecessor and/or successor, although the title is not extinct. If the last or next title holder are known, that information can be filled into the form.

Template:s-vac (with others) To create a table that begins with a vacant title, use this:

Which looks like:

To create a table that ends with a vacant title, use this:

Which looks like:

S-hou
This template is for the top of a succession list, directly beneath the s-start, and establishes which royal house a person is in, and gives their birth and death dates. If you do not know the day and month, leave a | and fill out the rest. For unknown birth or death dates, type Unknown; for living people, type Living'. To use, do the following:

Which will look something like this:

Complete example
Using the rows feature of the templates, very advanced tables can be created to help in situations with people who hold many posts, especially British Prime Ministers. The following is a hypothetical chart with at least one use of all the forms above: