Module:Technical reasons
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Implements {{technical reasons}}.
local mHatnote = require('Module:Hatnote') local mHatlist = require('Module:Hatnote list') local mArguments --initialize lazily local p = {} function p.technicalReasons (frame) mArguments = require('Module:Arguments') local args = mArguments.getArgs(frame) return p._technicalReasons(args) end function p._technicalReasons (args) --Return an error if no redirect's provided if not args[1] then return mHatnote.makeWikitextError( 'no redirect provided', 'Template:Technical reasons', args.category ) end --get maxArg manually because getArgs() and table.maxn aren't friends local maxArg = 0 for k, v in pairs(args) do if type(k) == 'number' and k > maxArg then maxArg = k end end --If there's only 1–2 arguments, set from to 1 to default things nicely. --Note that if (not args[2]) this doesn't matter either way. local from = maxArg > 2 and 2 or 1 --Structure the forSee table local forSee = mHatlist.forSeeArgsToTable(args, from) --Suppresses defaulting; for-see table rows that would include defaulting --are set to nil. for k, v in pairs(forSee) do if not v.use or #v.pages == 0 then forSee[k] = nil end end --Stringify the forSee table or set it nil forSee = #forSee ~= 0 and mHatlist.forSeeTableToString(forSee) or nil local lead = string.format( 'For [[Wikipedia:Naming conventions (technical restrictions)#Forbidden characters|technical reasons]], "%s" redirects here.', args[1] ) local text = table.concat({lead, forSee}, ' ') local options = {extraclasses = 'plainlinks selfreference noprint', selfref = true} return mHatnote._hatnote(text, options) end return p