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前任

S-new

To create a table that begins with a newly created title, use this (entering the reason behind the title's creation is optional):

Template:s-new (with others)

{{s-start}}

{{s-new|reason=ENTER REASON FOR TITLE}}

{{s-ttl|title=TITLE OF PERSON|years=INSERT YEARS HERE}}

{{s-aft|after=INSERT PREDECESSOR HERE}}

{{end}}

Which looks like:

S-inc

To create a table for someone who is the incumbant (current title holder), use the following:

Template:s-inc (with others)

{{s-start}}

{{s-bef|before=INSERT PREDECESSOR HERE}}

{{s-ttl|title=TITLE OF PERSON|years=INSERT START YEAR–present}}

{{s-inc}}

{{end}}

Which looks like:

Titles and Offices

S-ttl

To create a table for someone ruled with the aide of another (regent, coruler, &c.), it is integrated into the standard s-ttl template. Entering a regent is always optional as is entering the title-holder's dates or when the regent(s) ruled. Currently this template supports up to three regents. Instructions:

Template:s-reg (with others)

{{s-start}}

{{s-bef|before=INSERT PREDECESSOR HERE}}

{{s-ttl|title=TITLE OF PERSON|years=INSERT YEARS HERE

|regent1=TITLE OF REGENT|years1=INSERT YEARS HERE}}

|regent2=TITLE OF REGENT|years2=INSERT YEARS HERE}}

|regent3=TITLE OF REGENT|years3=INSERT YEARS HERE}}

{{s-aft|after=INSERT SUCCESSOR HERE)}}

{{end}}

Which looks like:

S-tul

Titular rulers are people who legitimately deserve a title yet are somehow incapable of securing it, as in the case of Louis XVII of France, heir to the throne during the early years of the French Revolution. Titular rulers generally mean that their title will again be inherited by someone with power and remains only temporarily suspended. There is generally only one titular claimant to a title.

To use this code, do the following:

{{s-start}}

{{s-bef|before=PREDECESSOR}}

{{s-tul|title=TITLE|years=YEARS CLAIMED|reason=REASON WHY TITULAR}}

{{s-aft|after=SUCCESSOR}}

{{end}}

When complete, this form appears as thus:

S-ptd

Pretenders are people who may or may not have a rightful claim to a title, but regardless do not possess any legitimate authority. Bonnie Prince Charles, or Charles III to the Jacobites, is probably the most famous case of a pretender. While he was the legitimate heir to his father, the Glorious Revolution overruled that power in favour of his half-sister. Therefore, he lost his legitimacy to govern but still claimed his hereditary titles. Pretenders are not always successive, as titular leaders generally are, and there can be multiple pretenders at the same time (as in France's Legitimists and Orleanists).

To use this code, do the following:

{{s-start}}

{{s-bef|before=PREDECESSOR}}

{{s-ptd|title=TITLE|years=YEARS CLAIMED|reason=REASON WHY PRETENDER}}

{{s-aft|after=SUCCESSOR}}

{{end}}

When complete, this form appears as thus:

Optional s- related templates

S-hou

This template is for the top of a succession list, directly beneath the s-start, and establishes which royal house a person is in, and gives their birth and death dates. If you do not know the day and month, leave a | and fill out the rest. For unknown birth or death dates, type Unknown; for living people, type Living'. To use, do the following:

{{s-start}}

{{s-hou|ENTER NAME OF HOUSE HERE|DAY AND MONTH OF BIRTH|YEAR OF BIRTH|DAY AND MONTH OF DEATH|YEAR OF DEATH}}

{{s-bef|before=[[INSERT PREDECESSOR HERE]]}}

{{s-ttl|title=[[ENTER TITLE HERE]]

|years=[[ENTER START DATE HERE]]-[[ENTER END DATE HERE]]}}

{{s-aft|after=[[INSERT SUCCESSOR HERE]]}}

{{end}}

Which will look something like this:

Complete example

Using the rows feature of the templates, very advanced tables can be created to help in situations with people who hold many posts, especially British Prime Ministers. The following is a hypothetical chart with at least one use of all the forms above: