Module:Concert location/doc

This is the documentation page for Module:Concert location

This Lua module is designed to automatically generate categories for concert pages based on the location, date, and artist provided in an infobox.

Features

Detects U.S. states by abbreviation (e.g., "CA") or full name (e.g., "California").
Detects non-U.S. countries by using the text after the last comma in the location string, with support for multi-word country names and common aliases (e.g., "London, UK" → "United Kingdom").
Automatically prefixes "the" for country names when appropriate (e.g., "The Bahamas", "The Netherlands").
Supports sorting by year, extracted from the date parameter in the infobox.
Restricts automatic category creation to a predefined list of allowed artists.

|location=: The location of the concert as entered in the infobox.
|date=: The date of the concert (used to extract the year for sort keys).
|artist=: The performing artist (only allowed artists trigger automatic categories).

This module is intended to be invoked from an infobox template using #invoke and is not meant to be used on its own:

{{#invoke:Concert location|getCategory|{{{location}}}|{{{date}}}|{{{artist}}}}}

{{Infobox concert
| artist   = Weezer
| location = Los Angeles, CA
| date     = March 19, 1992
}}

Result: [[Category:Weezer concerts in California|1992]]

{{Infobox concert
| artist   = Weezer
| location = London, United Kingdom
| date     = August 1, 2022
}}

Result: [[Category:Weezer concerts in the United Kingdom|2022]]

If the location is not recognized or the artist is not in the allowed list, no category is generated.
The module assumes the last word in a non-U.S. location corresponds to the country.