Template messages
This page lists existing templates in Wikimedia projects which you may find useful, specially the commons to all them. 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 can't 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 themself as an adept template coder (this is a category that has just begun so may be sparse at the moment; it grows through the propagation of a userbox that marks out a user's template ability).
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.
See also Templates of Wikimedia wikis.
Main page and alternativesEdit
- For templates used on one of the Wikipedia's Main Pages.
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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 WikiProject page. See also Wikipedia:Article series.
- 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
- Citation templates for generic and specific sources
- GFDL sources
- Public domain sources
- Requesting sources and verification
- U.S. government sources
- To databases (IMDb, Gutenberg, etc.)
- To main articles
- To maps
- To notes about German names
- To sister projects
- Articles (AfD)
- Categories (CfD)
- Images and media (IfD)
- Redirects (RfD)
- Speedy deletion (D)
- Templates (TfD)
- Stub types (SfD)
- Accuracy
- Suspected hoax
- Neutrality
- Original research
- Contradictory
- Controversial
- Unencyclopedic
- Autobiography (new!)
- 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
- General cleanup
- Wikify, copyediting
- Verify facts
- Importance/significance
- Context; technical
- Tone; clarity
- Fact or fiction
- Self-contradictory
- Complete rewrite
- Translate
- Pronunciation (IPA)
- Geographical balance
- Merges, moves
- To be inserted at the bottom of redirect page, but does not prevent the redirect from working.
- Calendars
- Court Decisions
- Diagrams
- Game and Puzzle layouts
- Grids
- Periodic Table
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- Policies and non-policies
- Village Talk
- WikiProjects
- WP:Sandbox
- WP:FAQ
- WP:BJAODN (Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense)
- Births in Years
- Books in Years
- Deaths in Years
- More information
- Categorization of people:
- Subjective Category Disclaimer
- Disputed categorisation
- Contribution Licensing
- Disclaimer
- Languages
- New Page Links
- Open Tasks
- Picture of the Day
- Shared IP
- Wikimedia Licensing
- Experimenting & Vandalism Notices
- Shared IP Notices
- Spamming Notices
- Three Revert Rule
- User Talk Requests
- Welcome Messages
- Edit-summary request
- Minor-edit reminder
- Featured articles (and candidates)
- Expansion requests
- Comments
- Discussion thread tags
- Free Images
- Translation requests
- Korea-related
- Peer review
- To Do lists
- WikiProject notices
- 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
Related pages for specific types of templatesEdit
MediaWiki.org wiki has a page about this at:
- 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 taxonomical 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 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 image description pages (the image namespace).
- The MediaWiki namespace controls interface messages for internal system use, and can only be modified by administrators.
- Wikipedia:Spoiler warning for a detailed explanation about the use of spoiler warning templates.
- Userboxes are user information boxes designed for user pages.
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- Wikipedia:Colours in templates.