This is a documentation subpage for Template:See above. It may contain usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page.

((See above)) and ((See below)) are simple wrappers for ((crossreference|selfref=no|text=...)).

The output is a parenthetical fragment, intended mostly for use in the middle of or at the end of a sentence, e.g. "In the Elbonian Uprising (see below), Addamasartus was used as the rebels' base of operations."

For more complex custom cross-references, use ((Crossreference)) directly. But please read WP:SELFREF, and avoid "talking at" the reader (Bad idea: For a fuller treatment of the Elbonian Uprising and its consequences, more information is provided at our article ...). Wikipedia is not a classroom.

For cross-references between articles, use ((See also)) or another in that family of hatnote templates.

The templates will format a "(see above)" or a "(see below)" or a custom message into a standardized style for an inline (not block-level) cross-reference to other content in the same article.

They are not Wikipedia self-references, to other pages, but self-references to the content at hand on the same page, and are thus printworthy. Their output is ultimately generated by Module:Hatnote inline.

Default: ((See above)) and ((See below))

produce: (see above) and (see below), respectively (which are usually not very helpful).

Basic usage with parameter: ((See below|Radical Whigs))

produces: (see Radical Whigs)

Linked: ((See below|[[#Radical Whigs|below]]))

produces: (see below)

Custom usage: ((See below|((section link||Radical Whigs)), below))

produces: (see § Radical Whigs, below)

Another example, going to an anchor at an image: ((See above|[[#chart1992|1992 statistics graph]]))

produces: (see 1992 statistics graph)

• |text= AKA |content= AKA first unnamed parameter – the text to use between "(see " and ")".