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When supplied with a 1-, 2-, 3- or 4-digit year or decade, returns the name of the century.

Mostly used in categorisation.

Parameters

The first parameter is required: either a 1-, 2-, 3-, or 4-digit year (e.g. 61, 905, 1839) or a 2-, 3-, or 4--digit decade (e.g. 60s, 900s, 1830s)
The second parameter is optional. The single word "dash" changes the output from "nth century" to "nth-century"
An optional "nomatch" parameter may be used to specify text to be return if the input cannot be processed. Default behaviour is return an empty string if there is no match

Usage

{{Century name from decade or year|YYYY}}
{{Century name from decade or year|YYYY|dash}}
{{Century name from decade or year|YYY0s}}
{{Century name from decade or year|YYY0s|dash}}
{{Century name from decade or year|YYYY|nomatch=FAIL}}
{{Century name from decade or year|YYYY|dash|nomatch=FAIL}}
{{Century name from decade or year|YYY0s|nomatch=FAIL}}
{{Century name from decade or year|YYY0s|dash|nomatch=FAIL}}

Examples

{{Century name from decade or year|8}} → 1st century
{{Century name from decade or year|63}} → 1st century
{{Century name from decade or year|421}} → 5th century
{{Century name from decade or year|1707}} → 18th century
{{Century name from decade or year|1514|dash}} → 16th-century
{{Century name from decade or year|0s}} → 1st century
{{Century name from decade or year|40s}} → 1st century
{{Century name from decade or year|550s}} → 6th century
{{Century name from decade or year|1920s}} → 20th century
{{Century name from decade or year|2030s|dash}} → 21st-century

Errors

Empty or inappropriate parameters produce no output, unless the "nomatch" paremeter is set.

{{Century name from decade or year}} →
{{Century name from decade or year|7}} → 1st century
{{Century name from decade or year|123abc}} →
{{Century name from decade or year|French flying flamingoes flounce furiously}} →

With "nomatch"

{{Century name from decade or year|nomatch=FAILED}} → FAILED
{{Century name from decade or year|7|nomatch=Aaaaaaaaaargh}} → 1st century
{{Century name from decade or year|123abc|nomatch=garbage input}} → garbage input
{{Century name from decade or year|Fastidious French flying flamingoes flounce furiously|nomatch=NOMATCH}} → NOMATCH

Redirects

{{Century name from decade}}
{{Century name from year}}

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Returns the name of the century for a 1-, 2-, 3- or 4-digit year or decade.

Template parameters
Parameter		Description	Typ	Status
Year or decade	`1`	a 1-, 2-, 3- or 4-digit-year (e.g. '1957') or a 4-digit-decade (e.g. '1760s') Default	Number	optional
dash	`2`	If this parameter is dash, then the century number is followed by a dash rather than a space, i.e. '16th-century' instead of the default '16th century' Default	String	optional
No match text	`nomatch`	If the input is not a 1-, 2-, 3- or 4-digit year or decade, output the "nomatch" value. Defaults to blank.	String	optional

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 <!-- Please place categories where indicated at the bottom of this page and interwikis at Wikidata (see [[Wikipedia:Wikidata]]) -->
-{{Intricate template}}
 {{High use|49377 }}
-When supplied with a 2-, 3- or 4-digit year or decade, returns the name of the century.
+When supplied with a 1-, 2-, 3- or 4-digit year or decade, returns the name of the century.
 Mostly used in categorisation.
 == Parameters ==
-# The first parameter is required: either a 2-, 3-, or 4-digit year (e.g. 61, 905, 1839) or a 2-, 3-, or 4--digit decade (e.g. 60s, 900s, 1830s)
+# The first parameter is required: either a 1-, 2-, 3-, or 4-digit year (e.g. 61, 905, 1839) or a 2-, 3-, or 4--digit decade (e.g. 60s, 900s, 1830s)
 # The second parameter is optional. The single word "dash" changes the output from "nth century" to "nth-century"
 # An optional "nomatch" parameter may be used to specify text to be return if the input cannot be processed.  Default behaviour is return an empty string if there is no match
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 * <code><nowiki>{{Century name from decade or year|123abc|nomatch=garbage input}}</nowiki></code> → {{Century name from decade or year|123abc|nomatch=garbage input}}
 * <code><nowiki>{{Century name from decade or year|Fastidious French flying flamingoes flounce furiously|nomatch=NOMATCH}}</nowiki></code> → {{Century name from decade or year|Fastidious French flying flamingoes flounce furiously|nomatch=NOMATCH}}
+== Redirects ==
+* {{tl|Century name from decade}}
+* {{tl|Century name from year}}
 == TemplateData ==
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 		"1": {
 			"label": "Year or decade",
-			"description": "a 4-digit-year (e.g. '1957') or a 4-digit-decade (e.g. '1760s') ",
+			"description": "a 1-, 2-, 3- or 4-digit-year (e.g. '1957') or a 4-digit-decade (e.g. '1760s') ",
 			"type": "number",
 			"default": ""
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 		"2": {
 			"label": "dash",
-			"description": "If this parameter is dash, then the century number is followed by a dash rather than a space, i.e. '16th-century' instead of the default '16th-century'",
+			"description": "If this parameter is dash, then the century number is followed by a dash rather than a space, i.e. '16th-century' instead of the default '16th century'",
 			"type": "string",
 			"default": ""
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 		"nomatch": {
 			"label": "No match text",
-			"description": "If the input is not a 4-digit year or a 4-digit decade, output the \"nomatch\" value. Defaults to blank.",
+			"description": "If the input is not a 1-, 2-, 3- or 4-digit year or decade, output the \"nomatch\" value. Defaults to blank.",
 			"type": "string"
 		}
 	},
-	"description": "Returns the name of the century for a 4-digit year  or a 4-digit decade."
+	"description": "Returns the name of the century for a 1-, 2-, 3- or 4-digit year or decade."
 }
 </templatedata>
 == See also ==
+{{Columns-list|
-* [[Template:Title year]]
-* [[Template:Title year range]]
+{{Title year see also}}
+}}
-* [[Template:Title decade]]
-* [[Template:Century name from title year]]
+{{String-handling templates}}
-* [[Template:Century name from title decade]]
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