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''This template is for ship-class articles with hyphenated titles. For ship-class articles without hyphenated titles, see and''.

Ship-class article titles may be hyphenated. A typical hyphenated ship-class article name has the form:
 * -class

When a ship class is named for a member of the class, the class name is italicized. For these classes use or. Classes not named for a member of the class are not italicized. Use.

When ship-class article titles are hyphenated, use. Otherwise use or.

Usage
  is an editor's shortcut for creating properly formatted links to ship-class articles with hyphenated titles: Class name-class ship type.

The basic form:



replaces:



This form assumes that ship type is its own separate article so produces a link to the class article, followed by a link to the ship type article. The text in the first link is properly formatted with the Class name displayed in italics followed by "-class".

Optional unnamed format control parameter
An optional third parameter allows you to control the format and use the template if ship type is not an article:



The values and results for format are:
 * 0: suppresses ship type display entirely. Adjectival form.
 * 1: displays ship type as part of a single link to the class article.
 * 2: displays unlinked ship type.
 * 3: displays ship type as a separate link. Ship type must be the name of an article.
 * 4: suppresses ship type display entirely. Noun form.
 * 5: class name only, suitable for tables

To avoid the dreaded red link, one of the first three options must be used if Ship type is not already an article. Note that option 3 is the default, so may be omitted. Other values of format will let you know the error of your ways.

Optional parameter: "ship-type disambiguation"
An optional fourth parameter allows you to disambiguate the ship type if it would ordinarily link to a disambiguation page (i.e. minesweeper-->):

 Class name-class ship type 

This would only be needed with either the default or with the "format" parameter set to 3. Note: to use the disambiguation parameter, you must specifiy a "format" parameter, or use "||" (double pipe) between the "ship type" and "disambiguation" parameters.

Optional parameter: "class-name disambiguation"
When there are separate ship classes that share the same name and that use parenthetical disambiguation, for example, use the optional fifth parameter to disambiguate the class-name:
 * produces which is the same as:

The class-name disambiguator is never displayed.