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This is a documentation subpage for Template:Distinguish.
Don't forget to purge the contents of the base page upon creating or editing this subpage.

Purge base's cache

This template allows you to easily notify users that they may have confused one thing with another. Accepts up to 8 inputs. Only one is enough though.

Usage

• {{distinguish|<1>|<2>|...}}
• {{distinguish|<1>|<2>|...|desc1=<text1>|desc2=<text2>|...}}

Parameters

• {{{1}}} to {{{8}}} - The things that something should not be confused with.
• {{{desc1}}} to {{{desc8}}} - Optional descriptions for {{{1}}} to {{{8}}}.

Examples

{{distinguish|1}}	→	Not to be confused with 1.
{{distinguish|1|desc1=text1}}	→	Not to be confused with 1 (text1).
{{distinguish|1|2}}	→	Not to be confused with 1 or 2.
{{distinguish|1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|desc5=text5}}	→	Not to be confused with 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (text5), 6, 7 or 8.

See Also

• {{Confusion}}