:Wikipedia:Template index/Examples

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• Disambiguation and redirection
• Section
• Footnotes and references
• Timing-related
• Title-related
• Character/symbol notes
• Expansion requests
• Disambiguation introductory lines
• Miscellaneous

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Templates relating to article descriptions.

Templates related to issues and disputes with articles, including NPOV, are listed under Template messages/Disputes. Templates related to formatting are listed under Template messages/Format. Templates related to Cleanup issues are listed under Template messages/Cleanup.

Example: {{ tl|disambiguation }} {{ disambiguation|nocat=yes}}

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• Tag consolidation
• General cleanup
• Copy editing
• Cleanup of specific subjects
• Fiction
• Inline with article text
• Style of writing
• Structure, formatting and sections
• Introduction
• Potentially unwanted content
• Context and detail
• Off-topic
• Expand and add
• Expert needed
• Time-sensitive
• Contradiction and confusion
• Content forks
• Importance and notability
• Neutrality and factual accuracy
• Verifiability and sources
• Categories
• Images
• Lists
• Wiki tech
• Infobox needed
• Infobox cleanup needed

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Template messages to inform readers and editors of specific problems with articles or sections; not to be used as a badge of shame.

These template messages may be added to articles needing a cleanup. Their purposes are to foster improvement of the encyclopedia by alerting editors to changes that need to be made. Cleanup tags are meant to be temporary notices that lead to an effort to fix the problem, not a permanent badge of shame to show disagreement with the article, or a method of warning the readers against the article.

Example: {{tl|multiple issues}} {{multiple issues}}

Example: {{tlp|cleanup|2=reason=Example}} {{cleanup|reason=Example}}

Example: {{tl|CIA}} {{CIA}}

Example: {{tl|fiction}} {{fiction}}

Example: {{tlp|abbreviations}} {{abbreviations}}

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• Non-Category pages
• Alphabetical lists
• Category pages
• Alphabetical lists
• Numeric lists

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A list of ways to create several kinds of compact tables of contents (TOC). Please note that a normal compact TOC will not work when put on Category pages; the page contains a separate section instructing you how to put a compact TOC on Category pages.

Example: {{tl|Compact ToC}}

{{Compact ToC}}

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• Deletion tools
• Articles (AfD)
• Categories (CfD)
• Files (FfD)
• Miscellany (MfD)
• Redirects (RfD)
• Stub types (SfD)
• Templates (TfD)
• Discussion pages
• Speedy deletion

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Before attempting to delete any articles, categories, etc., read Wikipedia:Deletion policy, and the specific instructions for the type of page you want to delete.

Example: {{tl|cfd result}} {{cfd result}}

Example: {{tl|Old AfD}} {{Old AfD multi|page=Template messages/Examples|result=keep}}

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• Autobiography
• Contradictory
• Controversial
• Factual accuracy
• Neutrality
• Notability
• Original research
• Possible neologisms
• Suspected hoax
• Unencyclopedic
• Verifiability

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Dispute templates are used to alert other editors that work is needed on a certain article, and auto-categorize pages so that patrolling editors can aid their talent to the problem.

They should normally not be used without a clear description from the applying editor of the rationale, preferably presented in a numbered list form on the article's talk page, in a section which includes the name of the template that was applied. As these items are dealt with, it is suggested each line be struck through. Some guidance should be given by the posting editor as to what action will resolve the matter when using section and article (page) tagging templates.

For placement at top of an article. For placement at top of article or section. For placement in or at top of a section only. For inline article placement. For placement on talk pages of articles. For placement on talk pages of users.

Example: {{tl|Contradict}} {{Contradict}}

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• Division boxes
• Hide/show boxes
• Image frames
• Multiple columns

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Templates related to descriptions (such as disambiguation, spoiler, wikicode) are listed under Template messages/General. Templates related to issues and disputes with articles, including NPOV, are listed under Disputes templates.

Example: {{tlp|divbox|gray|Title|Lorem ipsum}} {{divbox|gray|Title|Lorem ipsum}}

Example: {{tlp|key press|Ctrl|F5}} {{key press|Ctrl|F5}}

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• Internal links (articles, namespaces and categories)
• Templates
• German titles
• External links (databases and websites, etc.)
• Film and television (IMDb, YouTube, etc.)
• Games (board and video games, etc.)
• Geography (locations and maps)
• Literature (books, etc.)
• Music
• Religion
• Wikis (sister projects, etc.)
• Miscellaneous (science and the internet, etc.)

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Example: {{tlp|main|Article}} {{main|Article}}{{clear}}

Example: {{tl|cat main}} {{cat main}}{{clear}}

Example: {{tlp|lnt|namespace|page name}}

{{lnt|namespace|page name}}{{clear}}

Example: {{tlp|tl|name of template}}

{{ tl|name of template}}{{clear}}

Example: {{tl|German title Freiherr}}

{{German title Freiherr}}{{clear}}

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• Dynamic lists
• Incomplete lists
• Subject or topic lists
• Disputed content/length

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Example: {{tlg|Unsorted list|reason{{=}}alpha}} {{unsorted list|reason=alpha}}

Example: {{tl|List dispute}} {{List dispute}}

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• Articles requiring significant attention and other issues
• General attention needed
• ISSN issues
• Lack of geopolitical balance
• Articles undergoing major edits
• Categorization issues
• Copyright violations
• Protected articles, pages and images

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Note that a message about "this page" may have an unintended effect on a page that includes the page with the message. If that applies, put the message inside noinclude tags, or be specific about which page the message refers to.

Example: {{tl|In use}} {{In use|category=no}}

Example: {{tl|Uncategorized}}

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• To be placed on top of the pages or sections which require merging.

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Example: {{tl|merge}} {{merge|Wikipedia:Template messages/Merging|demospace=main}}

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• To be placed at the end of the same line as the redirect tag.

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It is sometimes considered helpful to put redirects into categories where appropriate, see Wikipedia:Categorizing redirects. For pages which should ultimately be handled by a full article, add both {{tlx|R with possibilities}} and one or more stub sorting templates to draw attention to the needed article.

Redirect templates are designed to be used together. For example, the redirect "{{No redirect|Architechts}}" uses both {{tlx|R from misspelling}} and {{tlx|R from plural}}. {{tl|This is a redirect}} can be used to add up to seven templates to a single page by listing the appropriate redirect templates as parameters.

Example: {{tl|R to project namespace}} {{R to project namespace}}

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• Templates that are section-specific.

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While most templates can be used in sections, these templates are section-specific.

Example: {{tl|Expand-section}} {{Expand-section}}

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• Requesting sources and verification
• General sources
• Citations of generic sources
• Citations of specific sources (GFDL, public domain, U.S. government, etc.)
• Footnotes and links

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Example: {{tlp|Unreferenced|2=date=November 2014}} {{Unreferenced|date=November 2014}}

Example: {{tl|more footnotes}} {{more footnotes}}

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• To be placed on top the pages or sections which require splitting.

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Example: {{tl|Split}} {{Split}}

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• Calendars
• Court Decisions
• Diagrams
• Game and Puzzle layouts
• Grids
• Periodic Table

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Describes standard box and diagram templates, used for specific subject matter items. They include right and left side, or lower article boxes, calendars, tables, grids and diagrams used in article expostion. The templates provide a consistent, clean format for the displayed information.

Infoboxes are described on the Infoboxes page.

Example: {{tlp|MINUTE|00:00}}{{clear}}

{{MINUTE|00:00}}

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• Translation-related cleanup and expansion.

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Example: {{tl|proofreader needed}} {{proofreader needed}}

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• MediaWiki
• Meta-Wiki
• Simple
• Wikibooks
• Wikimedia Commons
• Wikinews
• Wikiquote
• Wikisource
• Wikispecies
• Wikiversity
• Wiktionary

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List of templates that are designed to provide article-to-article linking between Wikipedia and its Wikimedia sister projects. Also, links to pages concerning moving articles between projects.

Example: {{tl|mediaWiki}} {{mediaWiki}}{{clear}}

Example: {{tlp|meta|Insert page title here}} {{meta|Insert page title here}}{{clear}}

Example: {{tl|wikibooks}} {{wikibooks}} {{clear}}

Example: {{tlp|commons category|Insert category name here}} {{commons category|Insert category name here}}

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Example: {{tl|contents pages (header bar)}} {{contents pages (header bar)}}

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Hatnotes are short notes placed at the top of an article or section of an article (hence the name "hat"). Hatnotes help readers locate a different article they might be seeking. Readers may have arrived at the article containing the hatnote because they were redirected, because the sought article uses a more specific, disambiguated title, or because the sought article and the article with the hatnote have similar names. Hatnotes provide links to the possibly sought article or to a disambiguation page.

Example: {{Tlp|Hatnote|CUSTOM TEXT}} {{Hatnote|CUSTOM TEXT}}

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A navigation template is a grouping of links used in multiple related articles to facilitate navigation between those articles. Editing of a navigation template is done in a central place, the template page. There are two main varieties of navigation template: navigation boxes (or navboxes), designed to sit at the very bottom of articles, and sidebars, designed to sit at the side of the article text. The two are complementary and either or both may be appropriate in different situations.

Example: {{tl|Named sapphires}} {{Named sapphires}}

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Country codes, to render a flag icon and a wikilink to a country's article

Example: {{tl|AFG}} {{AFG}}

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An infobox on Wikipedia is a consistently-formatted table which is present in articles with a common subject.

Example: {{tlp|Infobox manner of address|2=name=Example}} {{Infobox manner of address|name=Example}}

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{{Automatic taxobox|taxon=Animalia}}

This template sets up a {{tl|Automatic taxobox}}, a table setting out the Biological classification (taxonomy) for a group of living things with a choice of over 160 parameters.

Example: {{tlp|Automatic taxobox|2=taxon=Animalia}}

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Templates for noting a particular national or regional bias of an article, and asking for a worldwide view.

Example: {{tl|globalize}} {{globalize}}

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Wikiproject to list stub messages/templates that are applied to stubs.

Example: {{tl|Edu-stub}} {{Edu-stub}}

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• Births in years
• Books in years
• Deaths in years
• Works in years
• Categorization of people:
• Subjective category disclaimer
• Disputed categorisation
• Category headers

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These notes are generally placed on top of category pages.

For notes about the deletion and renaming of categories, see Wikipedia:Template messages/Deletion.

Additional templates for category pages can be found in :Category:Category namespace templates and its subcategories.

For table of contents templates, see Wikipedia:Template messages/Compact tables of contents.

Example: {{tlp|birth year category header|123|4}} What you would see: see the header at :Category:1234 deaths.

Example: {{tlp|category diffuse|2=nocat=true}} {{Category diffuse|nocat=true}}

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• General
• Categorization
• Copy to Wikimedia Commons
• Creative Commons
• Deletion
• Featured content
• Format and quality
• Free image / Semi-free image usage
• GNU/GFDL images
• Government copyrights (UK, Canada, Poland, etc.)
• Non-free (copyrighted) images
• Public domain images

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These are tags that may be placed on the file description pages, i.e., the pages that open up when pictures in articles are clicked. This is not the complete list (at the moment). When tagging images, please see the full text list at Wikipedia:File copyright tags.

Example: {{tl|ffd}} {{ffd}}

Example: {{tl|POV-map}} {{POV-map}}

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• General
• Archiving
• Biography
• Comments
• Discussion thread tags
• Expansion requests
• FAQ
• Featured and good articles
• Free images
• Peer review
• To do lists
• Translation requests
• WikiProject notices

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These are template messages that can be used on talk pages.

If you create a new or modify an old talk page template please first read the guideline about how they should look at Wikipedia:Talk page templates.

Example: {{tlp|connected contributor|Jimbo Wales}} {{connected contributor|Jimbo Wales}}

Example: {{tl|resolved}} {{resolved}}

Example: {{tl|GA}} {{GA}}

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• Template documentation
• High-use and intricate
• Template talk page messages

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These templates and message boxes are used on template pages and their subpages such as their /doc pages.

Additional templates for template pages can be found in :Category:Template namespace templates and its subcategories.

Example: {{tl|documentation subpage}}

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It contains usage information, categories, interlanguage links and other content that is not part of the original {{ #if: {{{text2|}}} | {{{text2}}} | {{ #if: {{{text1|}}} | {{{text1}}} | {{ #ifeq: {{SUBJECTSPACE}} | {{ns:User}} | {{lc:{{SUBJECTSPACE}}}} template page | {{ #if: {{SUBJECTSPACE}} |{{lc:{{SUBJECTSPACE}}}} page|article}}}}}}}}.

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• General
• Languages (Babel)
• Licensing
• Open tasks
• Sockpuppet, blocked, talk page and inactive user alerts
• User sandboxes
• Userboxes
• Wikipedia Awards / Barnstars

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Example: {{tl|user sandbox}}

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Writing an article and ready to request its creation? {{#if: {{REVISIONID}}

| {{Clickable button 2|Submit your draft for review!|url={{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|action=edit§ion=new&preload=Template:AFC_submission/Subst&editintro=Template:AFC_submission/Subst/Editintro}}|class=mw-ui-constructive|style=line-height: 1.4em; margin-top: 3px; padding: 0 1.7em 0 1.7em}}

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Example: {{User:Saoshyant/Userboxes/User oops}}{{clear}} {{User:Saoshyant/Userboxes/User oops}}

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• Multi-level warning templates
• Single-level warning templates
• Behavior in articles
• Behavior towards editors
• Blatant vandalism
• Blocks
• Foreign-language contributors
• General disruptive editing
• Inserting factual inaccuracies and/or libel
• Meta-templates
• Miscellanea
• Promotions of objects or ideologies (also spam)
• Unaccepted practices, unilateral action against policies or guidelines

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Wikipedia:WikiProject User warnings: User talk templates are placed on users' talk pages to advise a user against actions that disrupt Wikipedia, to advise editors of common mistakes, or to place a standard boilerplate note at the top of a page.

Multi-level warning templates

Blatant vandalism. General disruptive editing. Behavior in articles. Behavior towards editors. Adding promotions of objects or ideologies (also spam). Inserting factual inaccuracies and/or libel. Unaccepted practices, unilateral action against policies or guidelines.

Example: {{tl|Uw-vandalism1}} {{clear}} File:Information.svg Hello, I'm Mrjulesd. I wanted to let you know that I undid one or more of your recent contributions because it did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks!

Single-level templates (Advisories. Noticeboard notices. Warnings.)

Blocks.

Foreign-language contributors.

Miscellanea (Page headers. Images. Discussions and editing. New user. Deletion notifications. Other notifications.)

Example: {{tl|usercomment}} {{usercomment}}

Example: {{tl|Talk header}} {{Talk header}}

Meta-templates.

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• Policies and guidelines
• Essays and related
• Humor
• Maintenance
• Proposals and disputes
• Village pump
• WikiProjects

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Example: {{tl|essay|WP:SHORT}} {{essay|WP:SHORT}}

Example: {{tl|nutshell}} {{nutshell}}

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• WikiProject banners
• WikiProject meta templates
• Banner shells

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These template messages are WikiProject banners for use on Talk pages. They should typically be placed at the top of talk pages of articles or pages covered by the associated WikiProject.

Example: {{tl|WikiProject Albums}} {{WikiProject Albums|category=no}}

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{{Top icon templates|state=collapsed}}

{{Quotation templates}}

{{Notice and warning templates}}{{Userspace linking templates|heading=no|intro=no}}

{{Inline cleanup tags}}

{{Unicode templates|state=collapsed}}

{{Wikipedia template messages|expanded}}

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