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This template is generally used on [[Wikipedia:Disambiguation|disambiguation]] pages.

=== Usage ===
{| class="wikitable"
! Code !! Result !! Notes
|-
| <nowiki>{{subst:refer}}</nowiki> || <nowiki>'''{{PAGENAME}}'''</nowiki> may refer to: || Standard usage, takes current page name as argument
|-
| <nowiki>{{subst:refer|ABC}}</nowiki> || '''ABC''' may refer to: || If the current page name is not the argument
|-
| <nowiki>{{subst:refer|type=also}}</nowiki> || <nowiki>'''{{PAGENAME}}'''</nowiki> may also refer to: || If there already is a primary topic
|-
| <nowiki>{{subst:refer|type=given-name}}</nowiki> || <nowiki>'''{{PAGENAME}}'''</nowiki> is a given name. Notable people with the name include: || For [[given name]]s
|-
| <nowiki>{{subst:refer|type=name}}</nowiki> || <nowiki>'''{{PAGENAME}}'''</nowiki> is the name of: || For names
|-
| <nowiki>{{subst:refer|type=place}}</nowiki> || <nowiki>'''{{PAGENAME}}'''</nowiki> may refer to several places: || For places and locations
|-
| <nowiki>{{subst:refer|type=stand}}</nowiki> || <nowiki>'''{{PAGENAME}}'''</nowiki> may stand for: || For acronyms
|-
| <nowiki>{{subst:refer|type=surname}}</nowiki> || <nowiki>'''{{PAGENAME}}'''</nowiki> is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: || For [[surname]]s
|-
| <nowiki>{{subst:refer|ABC|abc}}</nowiki> || '''ABC''' or '''abc''' may refer to: || For similar uses
|}

=== TemplateData ===
{{TemplateDataHeader}}
<templatedata>
{
"description": "Opening line of a disambiguation page",
"params": {
"1": {
"label": "Name of the page",
"description": "The name of the page",
"type": "string",
"default": "{{PAGENAME}}",
"required": true
},
"2": {
"label": "Alternative name",
"description": "Alternative name",
"type": "string"
},
"type": {
"label": "name / stand / also / place",
"description": "\"is the name of\", \"may stand for\", \"may also refer to\", \"may refer to several places\", \"may refer to\"",
"type": "string"
}
}
}
</templatedata>
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Wikipedia>R'n'B: Undid revision 1375535854 by Rich Farmbrough (talk): no consensus for this change