This Wikipedia page has been superseded by Wikipedia:WikiProject Succession Box Standardization and is retained primarily for historical reference.

Biographies of incumbents (monarchs, popes, presidents, prime ministers) are often linked together by boxes, including the predecessor and successor. For other series of articles, see Wikipedia:Article series.

A sample from Moritz Leuenberger, as discussed on Talk:List of members of the Swiss Federal Council:

Source:

((s-start))
((s-bef|before= [[Otto Stich]]))
((s-ttl|title= [[Member of the Swiss Federal Council]]|years=1995-))
((s-aft|after= ''n.a. (still in office)''))
((s-end))

This structure can also work for any long chain of items:

Source:

((s-start))
((s-bef|before= [[Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution|20th Amendment]]))
((s-ttl|title= Amendments<br>[[United States Constitution]]))
((s-aft|after= [[Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution|22nd Amendment]]))
((s-end))