Template:Olympic events sidebar

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{{Olympic events sidebar}} is a base template for a series of navigational sidebars for articles on Olympic disciplines, designed to replace the aged Summer Olympics by year and Winter Olympics by year navigational sidebar series. The base template offers a simple, modern design that mimics the style of {{Infobox Olympic event}}, the infobox template in which {{Olympic events sidebar}} is designed to sit underneath. It offers a graphical representation of the Olympic discipline(s) featured, and a link to the discipline's article on Wikipedia. Its various sub-templates use {{#switch}} parser functions and collapsible lists to keep the sidebar short and not intrusive on the article's content, such as center-aligned tables and thumbnail images, while at the same time allowing just one template to be used for an entire discipline's Olympic history, rather than a separate template for each and every year the discipline was featured at an Olympics, unlike the predecessor Summer Olympics by year and Winter Olympics by year series did.

Syntax[edit]

{{Olympic events sidebar
| sport  = 
| games  = 
| events =
}}

Parameters[edit]

Parameter	Function	Description
`events`	Presents the list of events for a specified discipline in a collapsed format.	The input for the collapsed list of events of a discipline specified by the `sport` parameter at a games specified by the `games` parameter. The `{{#switch}}` parser function is used in the exact same way as used in the `games` parameter, which is `{{#switch:{{{1}}}\| }}`. The input for the parser function is similar, but this time the input is the year followed by a formatted list of events. See the below example for more details.
`games`	Activates wikilinks to relevant articles in the headline, harmonious with `sport`	Sets the year of the Olympics and whether or not it is a Summer, Winter, Summer Youth, or Winter Youth Olympics. The `{{#switch}}` parser function is used to make this parameter work; the code `{{#switch:{{{1}}}\| }}` is inputted to the `games` parameter and a combination of a year and an Olympic games type is inputted to the `{{#switch}}` parser function. For example, if the sub-template has a list for events at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the `events` parameter, input `2012 = 2012 Summer` into the parser function. This allows the sub-template's input for the year and the Olympic type to be simply called by inputting the year only. See relevant sub-template documentation for further details.
`sport`	Activates the pictogram and wikilinks to relevant articles in the headline, harmonious with `games`	Sets the Olympic discipline featured in the sidebar. Only a very simple input of the name of the discipline as seen on Wikipedia is required for this input, such as `Archery`, `Swimming`, or `Golf`. Caution is encouraged when handling case-sensitive names such as `Modern pentathlon` and `Rugby sevens`.