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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 ==
*<code><nowiki>{{Century name from decade or year|YYYY}}</nowiki></code>
*<code><nowiki>{{Century name from decade or year|YYYY|dash}}</nowiki></code>
*<code><nowiki>{{Century name from decade or year|YYY0s}}</nowiki></code>
*<code><nowiki>{{Century name from decade or year|YYY0s|dash}}</nowiki></code>
*<code><nowiki>{{Century name from decade or year|YYYY|nomatch=FAIL}}</nowiki></code>
*<code><nowiki>{{Century name from decade or year|YYYY|dash|nomatch=FAIL}}</nowiki></code>
*<code><nowiki>{{Century name from decade or year|YYY0s|nomatch=FAIL}}</nowiki></code>
*<code><nowiki>{{Century name from decade or year|YYY0s|dash|nomatch=FAIL}}</nowiki></code>

== Examples ==
* <code><nowiki>{{Century name from decade or year|8}}</nowiki></code> → {{Century name from decade or year|8}}
* <code><nowiki>{{Century name from decade or year|63}}</nowiki></code> → {{Century name from decade or year|63}}
* <code><nowiki>{{Century name from decade or year|421}}</nowiki></code> → {{Century name from decade or year|421}}
* <code><nowiki>{{Century name from decade or year|1707}}</nowiki></code> → {{Century name from decade or year|1707}}
* <code><nowiki>{{Century name from decade or year|1514|dash}}</nowiki></code> → {{Century name from decade or year|1514|dash}}
* <code><nowiki>{{Century name from decade or year|0s}}</nowiki></code> → {{Century name from decade or year|0s}}
* <code><nowiki>{{Century name from decade or year|40s}}</nowiki></code> → {{Century name from decade or year|40s}}
* <code><nowiki>{{Century name from decade or year|550s}}</nowiki></code> → {{Century name from decade or year|550s}}
* <code><nowiki>{{Century name from decade or year|1920s}}</nowiki></code> → {{Century name from decade or year|1920s}}
* <code><nowiki>{{Century name from decade or year|2030s|dash}}</nowiki></code> → {{Century name from decade or year|2030s|dash}}

== Errors ==
Empty or inappropriate parameters produce no output, unless the "nomatch" paremeter is set.
* <code><nowiki>{{Century name from decade or year}}</nowiki></code> → {{Century name from decade or year}}
* <code><nowiki>{{Century name from decade or year|7}}</nowiki></code> → {{Century name from decade or year|7}}
* <code><nowiki>{{Century name from decade or year|123abc}}</nowiki></code> → {{Century name from decade or year|123abc}}
* <code><nowiki>{{Century name from decade or year|French flying flamingoes flounce furiously}}</nowiki></code> → {{Century name from decade or year|French flying flamingoes flounce furiously}}

With "nomatch"
* <code><nowiki>{{Century name from decade or year|nomatch=FAILED}}</nowiki></code> → {{Century name from decade or year|nomatch=FAILED}}
* <code><nowiki>{{Century name from decade or year|7|nomatch=Aaaaaaaaaargh}}</nowiki></code> → {{Century name from decade or year|7|nomatch=Aaaaaaaaaargh}}
* <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 ==
{{TemplateData header}}
<templatedata>
{
"params": {
"1": {
"label": "Year or decade",
"description": "a 1-, 2-, 3- or 4-digit-year (e.g. '1957') or a 4-digit-decade (e.g. '1760s') ",
"type": "number",
"default": ""
},
"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'",
"type": "string",
"default": ""
},
"nomatch": {
"label": "No match text",
"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 1-, 2-, 3- or 4-digit year or decade."
}
</templatedata>

== See also ==
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