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Templates are pages which can be included in a page, which is useful for information which has to appear on several pagesThat also has the advantage that when that information changes, only the template needs to be changed.
This page lists existing templates which you may find useful.  For information on what templates are and how to use them, please see [[Wikipedia:Template namespace]].
 
 
 
'''''Instructions''''': When you add new template messages to this page, please keep the tables in alphabetical order.
 
 
 
If you cannot find the template you need, you can request it on [[Wikipedia:Requested templates]]. For help on creating templates, see [[Help:Template]], or contact a user who has identified themselves as an [[:Category:User template coder|adept template coder]].
 
 
 
To see the templates and how they are implemented, click on the bold links at the top of the cell which lists the templates of interest to you.
 
 
 
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<!--Please do not use a Wikipedia-style section header here; otherwise the edit links below get assigned to the wrong table cell.  This looks correct for Monobook on Firefox but may need additional changes to look right with other skins/browsers.--><span style="font-size: 140%">[[/Main page and alternatives/]]</span>
 
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* For templates used on one of the Wikipedia's [[Main Page]]s.
 
<br>
 
<!--Please do not use a Wikipedia-style section head here; otherwise the edit links below get assigned to the wrong table cellThis looks correct for Monobook on Firefox but may need additional changes to look right with other skins/browsers.--><span style="font-size: 140%">Article-related namespace</span>
 
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''Please list '''navigational templates''' (as, for example, between pages relating to a specific topic) at [[Wikipedia:Navigational templates]] or at the appropriate [[Wikipedia:WikiProject|WikiProject]] page. See also [[Wikipedia:Article series]].''
 
 
 
<div style="clear: both"></div>
 
<blockquote><table class="wikitable">
 
<tr valign="top">
 
<td width="25%">
 
<!-- Note: COUNT THE TABLES and number yours if you add a new one! 
 
    If your table is more than the 4th one, start a new
 
    table row as #1 so all of them are even -->
 
===<center>[[/General|General]]</center>===<!-- Table #1 -->
 
----
 
* Current events
 
* Disambiguation / Other uses
 
* Distinguish between deceptively similar titles
 
* Expansion requests
 
* Footnotes / References
 
* Instructions
 
* Lorem ipsum
 
* Miscellaneous info
 
* Solution and spoiler warnings
 
* Special character warnings
 
* Technical limitations
 
* Tools
 
</td>
 
<td width="25%">
 
 
 
===<center>[[/Sources of articles|Article sources]]</center>=== <!-- Table #2 -->
 
----
 
* Citation templates for generic and specific sources
 
* GFDL sources
 
* Public domain sources
 
* Requesting sources and verification
 
* U.S. government sources
 
</td>
 
<td width="25%">
 
 
 
===<center>[[/Links/]]</center>=== <!-- Table #3 -->
 
----
 
* To databases (IMDb, Gutenberg, etc.)
 
* To main articles
 
* To maps
 
* To notes about German names
 
* To sibling projects
 
 
 
</td>
 
<td width="25%">
 
 
 
===<center>[[Wikipedia:Sister projects|Sister Projects]]</center>=== <!-- Table #4 -->
 
----
 
* Wikiquote
 
* Wiktionary
 
* Wikibooks
 
* Wikisource
 
* Wikimedia Commons
 
* Wikinews
 
* Wikiversity
 
* Wikispecies
 
* Mediawiki
 
* Meta-Wiki
 
* Links
 
* Soft redirects
 
* Transwiki copy
 
 
 
</td>
 
<tr valign="top">                        <!-- New Row -->
 
<td width="25%">
 
 
 
===<center>[[/Deletion|For deletion/discussion]]</center>=== <!-- Table #1 -->
 
----
 
* Articles (AfD)
 
* Categories (CfD)
 
* Images and media (IfD)
 
* Redirects (RfD)
 
* Speedy deletion (D)
 
* Templates (TfD)
 
* Stub types (SfD)
 
 
 
 
 
</td>
 
<td width="25%">
 
 
 
===<center>[[/Disputes|Disputes and warnings]]</center>=== <!-- Table #2 -->
 
----
 
* Accuracy
 
* Suspected hoax
 
* Neutrality
 
* Original research
 
* Contradictory
 
* Controversial
 
* Unencyclopedic
 
* Notability
 
* Autobiography (new!)
 
 
 
</td>
 
<td width="25%">
 
 
 
===<center>[[/Maintenance/]]</center>===  <!-- Table #3 -->
 
----
 
* Article in use (major edits)
 
* Protected from editing/vandalism
 
* Copyright violations
 
* Article issues
 
** General attention needed
 
** ISSN issues
 
** Lack of geopolitical balance
 
** Translations
 
** IPA conversion
 
* Categorization issues
 
 
 
</td>
 
<td width="25%">
 
 
 
===<center>[[Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup|Cleanup]]</center>=== <!-- Table #4 -->
 
----
 
* General cleanup
 
* Wikify, copyediting
 
* Verify facts
 
* Importance/significance
 
* Context; technical
 
* Tone; clarity
 
* Fact or fiction
 
* Self-contradictory
 
* Complete rewrite
 
* Translate
 
* Pronunciation (IPA)
 
* Geographical balance
 
* Splits, merges, and moves
 
 
 
</td></tr>
 
<tr valign="top">                          <!-- New Row -->
 
<td width="25%">
 
 
 
===<center>[[/Compact table of contents|Compact TOC]]</center>===  <!-- Table #1 -->
 
----
 
* Tables of contents: 0-9/A-Z
 
* Category TOCs
 
 
 
</td>
 
<td width="25%">
 
 
 
===<center>[[/Lists/]]</center>===            <!-- Table #2 -->
 
----
 
* Dynamic lists
 
* Incomplete lists
 
* Subject or topic lists
 
 
 
</td>
 
<td width="25%">
 
 
 
===<center>[[/Redirect pages/]]</center>===        <!-- Table #4 -->
 
----
 
* To be placed at the end of the same line as the redirect tag.
 
 
 
</td>
 
<td width="25%">
 
===<center>[[/Standard boxes|Subject matter boxes and diagrams]]</center>===            <!-- Table #3 -->
 
----
 
* Calendars
 
* Court Decisions
 
* Diagrams
 
* Game and Puzzle layouts
 
* Grids
 
* Periodic Table
 
</td></tr>
 
</table></blockquote>
 
 
 
<!--Please do not use a Wikipedia-style section header here; otherwise the edit links below get assigned to the wrong table cell.  This looks correct for Monobook on Firefox but may need additional changes to look right with other skins/browsers.--><span style="font-size: 140%">Non article-related namespace</span>
 
----
 
 
 
<div style="clear: both"></div>
 
<blockquote><table class="wikitable">
 
<tr valign="top">
 
<td width="25%">
 
 
 
===<center>[[/Project namespace/]]</center>===
 
----
 
* Policies and non-policies
 
* Village Talk
 
* WikiProjects
 
* WP:Sandbox
 
* WP:FAQ
 
* WP:BJAODN (Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense)
 
 
 
</td>
 
<td width="25%">
 
 
 
===<center>[[/Category namespace/]]</center>===
 
----
 
* Births in Years
 
* Books in Years
 
* Deaths in Years
 
* More information
 
* Categorization of people:
 
**Subjective Category Disclaimer
 
**Disputed categorisation
 
</td>
 
<td width="25%">
 
 
 
===<center>[[/User namespace/]]</center>===
 
----
 
* Contribution Licensing
 
* Disclaimer
 
* Languages
 
* New Page Links
 
* Open Tasks
 
* Picture of the Day
 
* Shared IP
 
* Wikimedia Licensing
 
 
 
</td>
 
<td width="25%">
 
 
 
===<center>[[/User talk namespace/]]</center>===
 
----
 
* Experimenting & Vandalism Notices
 
* Shared IP Notices
 
* Spamming Notices
 
* Three Revert Rule
 
* User Talk Requests
 
* Welcome Messages
 
* Edit-summary request
 
* Minor-edit reminder
 
 
 
</td></tr>
 
<tr valign="top">
 
<td width="25%">
 
 
 
===<center>[[/Talk namespace/]]</center>===        <!-- Table #1 -->
 
----
 
* Featured articles (and candidates)
 
* Expansion requests
 
* Comments
 
* Discussion thread tags
 
* Free Images
 
* Translation requests
 
* Korea-related
 
* Peer review
 
* To Do lists
 
* WikiProject notices
 
 
 
</td>
 
<td width="25%">
 
 
 
===<center>[[/Image namespace/]]</center>===          <!-- Table #2 -->
 
----
 
 
 
* Coat of Arms
 
* Copyright status unknown or unverified
 
* Creative commons licensed image
 
* Fair use claimed
 
* Free use image / Semi-free use image
 
* Government copyrights (UK, Canada, Poland)
 
* GNU/GFDL image
 
* Images and media for deletion
 
* Image categorization
 
* Non-free (copyrighted) image
 
* "not an orphan"
 
* Public domain image
 
* Screenshot
 
''See also: [[Wikipedia:Image copyright tags]]''
 
 
 
</td>
 
<td width="25%">
 
<td width="25%">
 
</tr>
 
</table></blockquote>
 
 
 
==Related pages for specific types of templates==
 
{{Meta}}
 
{{Mediawiki|Help:Templates}}
 
*[[Template:Limbo]] can be used for articles that have no clear solution.
 
*[[Wikipedia:Template messages/General]] lists templates related to '''descriptions''' (such as disambiguation, spoiler, wikicode).
 
*[[Wikipedia:Template messages/Disputes]] lists templates related to '''issues and disputes with articles''', including NPOV.
 
*[[Wikipedia:Template messages/Format]] lists templates related to '''formatting.'''
 
* [[Wikipedia:Navigational templates]] are designed to provide links to several related articles.
 
* [[Wikipedia:Infobox templates]] are designed to present summary information about an article's subject, such that similar subjects have a uniform look and in a common format.
 
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Tree of Life/taxobox usage]] lists templates for building [[taxonomy|taxonomical]] [[Wikipedia:Infobox|infoboxes]] (taxoboxes) for biological classification of living things and explains their usage. The boxes also contain conservation status templates.
 
* [[Wikipedia:Country referencing templates]] are designed to provide a tiny thumbnail of a country's flag next to its hyperlinked name, meant to visually improve lists of nations.
 
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types]] is the full listing of stub types. There are dozens of stub templates and associated categories. The creation and organization of stub types is being addressed by the [[WP:WSS|WikiProject Stub sorting]]. The guidelines for template creation are found at [[Wikipedia:Stub]].
 
** The high level topical subdivisions of stub templates are General, Culture, Commerce, Government and politics, Leisure, Sports, Religion and belief, Geography, History, People, Science, Technology, Transportation, Military and weaponry, and Miscellaneous.
 
* [[Wikipedia:Image copyright tags]] are copyright and licensing messages and other related tags for [[Wikipedia:Image description page|image description pages]] (the image namespace).
 
* The [[Wikipedia:MediaWiki namespace|MediaWiki namespace]] controls interface messages for internal system use, and can only be modified by [[Wikipedia:administrators|administrators]].
 
* [[Wikipedia:Spoiler warning]] for a detailed explanation about the use of spoiler warning templates.
 
*[[Wikipedia:Userboxes]] are user information boxes designed for user pages.
 
 
 
== Wikipedia template-related pages ==
 
* [[Wikipedia:Colours]] in templates.
 
 
 
[[Category:Wikipedia templates|{{PAGENAME}}]]
 

Latest revision as of 07:22, 1 August 2009

Templates are pages which can be included in a page, which is useful for information which has to appear on several pages. That also has the advantage that when that information changes, only the template needs to be changed.