Module:Broader

-- -- This module produces a "For a broader coverage related to this topic" link. It implements -- the template. -- local mHatlist = require('Module:Hatnote list') local mHatnote = require('Module:Hatnote') local mArguments -- lazily initialize local mTableTools --lazily initialize

local p = {}

local s = { --localizable strings broaderForm = 'For broader coverage of %s, see %s.', defaultTopic = 'this topic' }

function p.broader(frame) mArguments = require('Module:Arguments') mTableTools = require('Module:TableTools') local originalArgs = mArguments.getArgs(frame, {parentOnly = true}) local args = mTableTools.compressSparseArray(originalArgs) -- re-add non-numeric arguments omitted by compressSparseArray for _, name in pairs({'category', 'selfref', 'topic'}) do		args[name] = originalArgs[name] end return p._broader(args) end

function p._broader(args) if not args[1] then return mHatnote.makeWikitextError(			'no page name specified',			'Template:Broader#Errors',			args.category		) end local list = mHatlist.andList(args, true) local topic = args.topic or s.defaultTopic local text = string.format(s.broaderForm, topic, list) options = {selfref = args.selfref} return mHatnote._hatnote(text, options) end

return p