This is a typing short cut for linking to steamship articles named in the format "RMS Shipname (Year)". Since ship names are italicized in article text, linking to them in the usual manner means typing everything twice, such as [[RMS Shipname (Year)|RMS ''Shipname'' (Year)]]. This template halves that to {{RMS|Shipname|Year}}.
Template usage | Equivalent wikicode | Final result |
---|---|---|
{{RMS|Adriatic|1907}} | [[RMS Adriatic (1907)|RMS ''Adriatic'' (1907)]] | آراماس Adriatic (1907) |
{{RMS|Titanic}} | [[آراماس تایتانیک]] | آراماس Titanic |
Last example could be used to link to ship index (disambiguation) page
There is an optional third parameter that controls which pieces of text are displayed in the article. It's value is treated as a binary number and will display the corresponding "bits". So setting the 4's bit will display RMS, setting the 2's bit will display the ship name, and setting the 1's bit will display the ID. If binary math isn't your thing, refer to these examples:
Value | Parameter(s) displayed |
Example | Equivalent wikicode | Final result |
---|---|---|---|---|
None | all | {{RMS|Adriatic|1907}} | [[RMS Adriatic (1907) |RMS ''Adriatic'' (1907)]] | آراماس Adriatic (1907) |
1 | 3rd | {{RMS|Adriatic|1907|1}} | [[RMS Adriatic (1907) |1907]] | 1907 |
2 | 2nd | {{RMS|Adriatic|1907|2}} | [[RMS Adriatic (1907) |''Adriatic'']] | Adriatic |
3 | 2nd, 3rd | {{RMS|Adriatic|1907|3}} | [[RMS Adriatic (1907) |''Adriatic'' (1907)]] | Adriatic (1907) |
4 | invalid result | {{RMS|Adriatic|1907|4}} | [[RMS Adriatic (1907) |Invalid Optional Parameter]] | آراماس Adriatic (1907) |
5 | 1st, 3rd | {{RMS|Adriatic|1907|5}} | [[RMS Adriatic (1907) |RMS (1907)]] | آراماس 1907 |
6 | 1st, 2nd | {{RMS|Adriatic|1907|6}} | [[RMS Adriatic (1907) |RMS ''Adriatic'']] | آراماس Adriatic |
2nd (no 3rd) |
{{RMS|Titanic|3=2}} Alternate usage: {{RMS|Titanic||2}} |
[[آراماس تایتانیک]] | Titanic |
N.B.: Be careful with the third parameter if not using the second parameter. In the Titanic example above, the "|3=2" means set the third parameter to a value of two, while the alternate syntax shows using a pair of pipes, "||2", to position the value two in the third parameter position.
Using an optional display control parameter value of 6 yields the same results as using {{warship}} to create the same link and text, but saving, coincidentally, 6 characters while editing.
{{RMS|Adriatic|1907|6}} yields the same results as {{warship|RMS|Adriatic|1907}}
WP:SHIPS shortcut templates:
{{barge}}
—barge articles{{GTS}}
—Gas Turbine Ship articles{{HSC}}
—High Speed Craft articles{{MS}}
—Motor ship articles{{MV}}
—Merchant vessel (or "Motor vessel") articles{{MY}}
—Motor yacht articles{{PS}}
—Paddle steamer articles{{ship}}
—Non–prefixed ship articles{{SS}}
—Steam Ship articles{{tugboat}}
—tugboat articles{{HMS}}
—نیروی دریایی پادشاهی بریتانیا ships{{HMT}}
—Royal Navy trawlers{{HMAS}}
—Royal Australian Navy ships{{HMCS}}
—Royal Canadian Navy ships{{HMNZS}}
—Royal New Zealand Navy ships{{RMS}}
—Royal Mail Ships{{INS}}
—نیروی دریایی هند ships{{SAS}}
—South African Navy ships{{USAT}}
—United States Army Transport articles{{USCGC}}
—United States Coast Guard Cutter articles{{USNS}}
—United States Naval Ship articles{{USRC}}
—United States Revenue Cutter Service articles{{USS}}
—نیروی دریایی ایالات متحده آمریکا ship articles{{SMS}}
—نیروی دریایی امپراتوری آلمان and Austro-Hungarian Navy ships{{SMU}}
—نیروی دریایی امپراتوری آلمان and Austro-Hungarian Navy U-boats{{GS}}
—World War II and later U-boats{{Jsub}}
—نیروی دریایی امپراتوری ژاپن submarines{{HNLMS}}
—Royal Netherlands Navy ships{{HNoMS}}
—Royal Norwegian Navy ships{{HSwMS}}
—Swedish Navy ships{{RPS}}
—older Philippine Navy ships{{BRP}}
—newer Philippine Navy ships{{ORP}}
—Polish Navy ships{{LÉ}}
—Irish Navy ships{{TCG}}
—Turkish Navy ships{{DANFS}}
—public domain attribution notice{{Cite DANFS}}
—DANFS material citation{{GT}}
—gross tonnage{{NetT}}
—net tonnage{{GRT}}
—gross register tonnage{{NRT}}
—net register tonnage{{TEU}}
—twenty-foot equivalent units{{DWT}}
—deadweight tonnage{{Displacement}}
—displacement (ships)