Geography of France/Introduction

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Outline

Introduction (this page)

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Manual of Style

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Splash screens

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In this WIkibook splash screens are used in this way:

• Use the template {{Geography of France/Splash screen}} to create hidden splash screens that will expand upon a click:

This should be used mainly on pages about areas in France, for example see Geography of France/The Pacific#French Polynesia.

A similar thing can be done along side these splash screens, for example at the head of the French Polynesia section of the Pacific chapter of this book you will find:

To do this you will have to use the template {{hidden}}. All instances of this template in this Wikibook must have the paramater "noprint" filled in. This will prevent the contents and the template from showing up in the printed version, as having a huge image on a printed page is annoying. Please do not over use this, as it can become annoying and clog up the page.

Navigation

There is currently one template for navigation in this Wikibook: {{Geography of France/Nav simple}}. This needs to parameters: the first unnamed parameter is the previous page and the second the next. So this:

{{Geography of France/Nav simple|Corsica|French Guiana}}

would, if it were on Geography of France/The Caribbean, render like this:

This template should be placed on the top of the page.

France vs. Metropolitan France

This book emphasis that France is more than just Metropolitan France (the part located in Europe). So please don't caption pictures of European France as "map of France" or "location of France in the EU". If the picture is of only Metropolitan France, say so.