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	The code depends on a consistent naming scheme for Age/Era icons: "<Age/Era> icon <game abbreviation> <Age/Era name>", where game abbreviation matches the parameter names above, except correctly capitalized, and Age/Era name is the short form of the name, e.g. "Prophet" for Age of the Prophet (specified in the data module). These icons are placed in [[:Category:Ages and Eras files]]. Note: overall branch icons use "Era" and the name is "NPO".		The code depends on a consistent naming scheme for Age/Era icons: "<Age/Era> icon <game abbreviation> <Age/Era name>", where game abbreviation matches the parameter names above, except correctly capitalized, and Age/Era name is the short form of the name, e.g. "Prophet" for Age of the Prophet (specified in the data module). These icons are placed in [[:Category:Ages and Eras files]]. Note: overall branch icons use "Era" and the name is "NPO".

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This template is used to automatically display the [[Ages]] and [[Eras]] for a page based on a set of membership date ranges.

The template uses [[Module:AgesEras]], and the data is loaded from [[Module:AgesEras/list]] - add any new Ages/Eras or changes there.

This template is included automatically based on parameters in [[Template:Person infobox]] and [[Template:Officeholder infobox]].

==Parameters==
Parameters are case sensitive and take a set of date ranges (see below).
*'''ns''' - [[NationStates]] (has game icon only)
*'''cn''' - [[Cyber Nations]]

The template can take a case-sensitive named parameter for each game that is supported. Each parameter consists of a set of date ranges during which the person in question was a member of the NPO branch in that game. You can omit the end date if the person is currently a member.

The code attempts to recognize a variety of ways to input the date ranges, but it also depends on the [[mw:Help:Extension:ParserFunctions##time|#time]] parser function. In particular, it doesn't recognize dd/mm/yy format. For clarity, it's better to spell out dates or use yyyy-mm-dd. The preferred separator between ranges is a semicolon. Whatever the formatting, be consistent, but don't use the same character to separate both ranges and the dates within them.

==Mechanics==
The Ages/Eras icons are displayed using the [[mw:Help:Page status indicators|indicators]] system. Notably, each Age/Era will have a unique identifier that determines its order on the page, which also prevents duplicates from being shown. These identifiers are determined in the module's <code>icon</code> function.

The code depends on a consistent naming scheme for Age/Era icons: "<Age/Era> icon <game abbreviation> <Age/Era name>", where game abbreviation matches the parameter names above, except correctly capitalized, and Age/Era name is the short form of the name, e.g. "Prophet" for Age of the Prophet (specified in the data module). These icons are placed in [[:Category:Ages and Eras files]]. Note: overall branch icons use "Era" and the name is "NPO".

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