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'''Cam Patterson''' is a New Zealand based '''music producer''' known for his '''ambient''' and '''IDM''' instrumentals.  
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The '''template link''' (or "tl") template is a simple [[w:Macro (computer science)|macro]] [[m:Help:template|template]] used to display a template name as a link surrounded by braces, thus showing the template name as code rather than actually invoking it. Its primary use is in instruction and documentation where it is used to refer to a template by name without invoking it.  


==Style==
==Examples==
Cam Patterson uses a standard style of IDM and Ambience that can be found amongst other artists of the same genre. Ambient music usually uses the instruments of Background Drums, Piano and other quiet instruments.
An example of its use is:


::<code><nowiki>{{tl|Example}}</nowiki></code>
:which generates
::{{tl|Example}}


==Background==
He started his journey into the music world playing percussion for a band known as the Tawa Learners' Band, a small concert band located in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tawa,_New_Zealand Tawa, New Zealand]. Once percussion slowly got boring, he moved onto the electronic keyboard and the bell lyre where he spent a bit more of his time in the Band.


After going to a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_band New Zealand Air Force Band] concert after being invited by his Keyboard teacher at the time and decided from that point onwards to play the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornet cornet] with the Tawa Learners' Band. As they didn't have any extra cornets laying around, they gave him a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenor_horn Tenor Horn] for the time being. After spending time with the tenor horn he eventually got his hand on a cornet and joined the Porirua Youth Brass Band(PYB), junior band to Trust Porirua City Brass(TPCB) located in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porirua Porirua, New Zealand].
== TemplateData ==
<templatedata>{
"description": "This template displays a template name as a link surrounded by braces, thus showing how the template name would be used in code. Its primary use is in instruction and documentation.",
"params": {
"1": {
"label": "template name",
"description": "positional parameter: the template name without the namespace prefix “Template:”, which is added automatically",
"type": "wiki-template-name",
"required": true
}
}
}</templatedata>


After a while at PYB, he eventually joined Trust Porirua City Brass as a second cornet and stayed there for 2 years before being bumped up to solo cornet where he is to this day.
== See also ==
* {{tl|tlx}} to produce a [t]emplate [l]ink with an e[x]panded number of parameters.
<includeonly>[[Category:link templates]]</includeonly>

Latest revision as of 07:43, 8 April 2025

Template:Documentation subpage The template link (or "tl") template is a simple macro template used to display a template name as a link surrounded by braces, thus showing the template name as code rather than actually invoking it. Its primary use is in instruction and documentation where it is used to refer to a template by name without invoking it.

Examples

An example of its use is:

{{tl|Example}}
which generates
{{Example}}


TemplateData

This template displays a template name as a link surrounded by braces, thus showing how the template name would be used in code. Its primary use is in instruction and documentation.

Template parameters

ParameterDescriptionTypeStatus
template name1

positional parameter: the template name without the namespace prefix “Template:”, which is added automatically

Templaterequired

See also

  • {{tlx}} to produce a [t]emplate [l]ink with an e[x]panded number of parameters.
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