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Contents 1 Vulgar/Offensive template 2 Number of Contributions 3 SectionCopy 4 Revert template 5 Legal citation templates 6 explicit language template 7 speedy deletion for the reason of advertising or spam 8 Scary 9 fictional 10 Inappropriate Content Templates 11 stock charts 12 Update to protected template 13 Help with an esoteric template 14 Tales of Symphonia 15 Be aware of talk page 16 Trademark template 17 TVR template 18 Future Event, date specific, effecting the status of an article 19 Content that may offend 20 Evolving technology?? 21 Template:As of 22 Do Not Delete Template 23 Proposal to create a smoking fetish template 24 Template for emergency medical conditions 25 italian motorways template

[edit] Vulgar/Offensive template

In response to some comments on Talk:Felching, I would like to request a template, similar to the spoiler template, that would mark potentially offensive material before it is read. I'm not talking about material discussing possibly offensive viewpoints; I'm talking about text, such as that at Felching and Queef, that may cause offense because of the actual language used. I was grossed out by even the first couple of lines of Felching; I would greatly have preferred the chance to not have read it. Something like "Warning: The following material may be considered vulgar and/or offensive by some." -- Calion | Talk 02:15, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Unfortunately, this is a perennial complaint against established standards. See Wikipedia:No disclaimer templates. I think that some means of allowing users to 'opt out' of certain types of content would be beneficial to Wikipedia, but to date no such effort has been accepted and any template created for this would certainly be deleted. --CBDunkerson 14:36, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Number of Contributions

I would like a template that displays the numer of edits a user had made. I know Wikipeda has a way of counting edits. I have made a "dummy template" below to illistrate what I want. A "dummy template" is not actually a template, it is a Divbox that has been placed into the article.

{{contrib|user=UserNameHere}} Would expand into

Contributions by UserNameHere Articles created: 00 Articles edited: 00 Talk pages edited: 00 Project pages edited: 00 Templates edited: 00 Moves done: 00 Minor edits: 00 Total Edits: 000

The number 00 represents the number of edits that apply to the coresponding edit types, it is not necessarily going to always be zero, or two digits (a real zero would look like 0). "Articles edited" means the number of aricles that the user has edited at least once, including article creations. The same principle applies to Talk, Project, and template pages.

this is just a suggestion, It is less likely a completed virsion (if any) would resemple this "dummy template"

The problem is that I have no idea where to get those numbers from. Is there a way? or would an Admin have to create a {{TOTALEDITS}} function that returns a single numerical value (number of edits)? — Kjammer ⌂ 08:57, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

Perhaps something similar to Kate's tool. — Kjammer ⌂ 06:48, 16 September 2005 (UTC)

This would be nifty, but wouldn't it put a terrible load on the servers once it became popular, as I imagine would happen? Especially if people started adding it with their sigs in talk pages? If anyone implements this, I hope they will put it on their own website, and write the template to use of their own CPU cycles :-/ If anyone is willing to do this, I think this would be a nifty template.---CH [[User_talk:Hillman|(talk)]] 01:28, 21 November 2005 (UTC)

There is no way to implement this through templates alone. The edit count tools perform queries against the database - a function which cannot be performed by a template. Thus, any data to be displayed here would have to be garnered through the use of such a tool and then manually updated regularly. See Template:User edits for an existing example of such a 'manual input' edit count template. --CBDunkerson 03:03, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] SectionCopy

I don't know if there's another way to do this (if so, please tell me: talk), but I've often found that I need to copy certain information between articles. Besides this being tedious, it also causes problems, for instance when one instance of the information is updated, and then the copy remains untouched. It also means that correctly updating pieces of information across WikiPedia involves multiple article edits.

Here's an example:

On the Stargate SG-1 page, there is information about when each Season of the show is released on DVD. This information is also available, in less detail, on the List of Stargate SG-1 episodes page, which lists each of the aforementioned Seasons.

What I want to be able to do is, on the List of Stargate SG-1 episodes page, add {{SectionCopy|Stargate SG-1|DVD releases}} and then have that section of the Stargate SG-1 actively rendered into the List of Stargate SG-1 episodes article.

Optionally, it would be even more helpful to be able to copy just small sections of sections, by placing marker templates in the source article. So, for instance:

Source Article#Section
Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
{{SectionCopy|open}}
Important Bit
{{SectionCopy|close}}
Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah

Destination Article#Section
Blah blah blah blah blah blah
{{SectionCopy|Source Article|Section|use-tags}}
Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah

Obviously the {{SectionCopy|open}} and {{SectionCopy|close}} tags are invisible on the actual page.

This is 'SectionCopy' only because we don't want full articles to be copied across WikiPedia; if you need to copy more than a section then you're doing something wrong.

If this is already available, I'd love to know about it, and if it's not, why on earth not!? This would be so helpful, and thankyou to anyone who codes this. --alfakim 21:17, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

It isn't possible with current software to display a portion of some other article in this way. However, the functionality you are looking for can be accomplished by putting the text to be displayed in 2+ articles into a template and then calling that template in each. --CBDunkerson 20:39, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Revert template

Could a template be made for when you revert some edits? Maybe something like this:

{{reverted|12.34.56.78|Wikiuser}}

which would generate the text:

"reverted edits by 12.34.56.78 to last version by Wikiuser"

The template could have an extra optional argument for providing a reason for the revert.

I have a feeling this template might not be possible with the current version of MediaWiki. Are templates even allowed in edit summaries? --ColdFeet 08:23, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

• I second this request. Though you'd need to make it mandatory to use it as a "subst:", otherwise you'd probably bog down the server pretty badly. --Miketwo 02:13, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

Templates do not work in edit summaries. However, features like this can be gained from user scripts. --CBDunkerson 20:39, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Legal citation templates

I noticed you have a Supreme Court case template, but not one for other court cases. It would be nice to have an easy way to format and link to a decision for federal district and appellate court decisions. —This unsigned comment was added by 65.102.51.155 (talk • contribs) .

It would be nice, but I'm not aware of any web resource which allows open access to the decisions in all Federal cases. If you know of one then a template could certainly be set up to link to it. Decisions for individual cases which can be found somewhere on the net can be linked with Template:Cite web. --CBDunkerson 20:59, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] explicit language template

I believe it would be a good idea to have a small template on pages with profanity. i have seen and dealt with small children who have inadvertantly come upon pages with multiple profanities.

it might say something like: "WARNING: This page includes adult language, and is intended to be read by adults" or something.Vulcanstar6 00:38, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

Unfortunately, this is a perennial complaint against established standards. See Wikipedia:No disclaimer templates, Wikipedia talk:Content labeling proposal, and m:End-user image suppression. I think that some means of allowing users to 'opt out' of certain types of content would be beneficial to Wikipedia, but to date no such effort has been accepted and every template created for this purpose has been summarily deleted (most recently last week). --CBDunkerson 11:51, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] speedy deletion for the reason of advertising or spam

a template that works like the db... templates, but shows the reason as being spam or advertising —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Bill Sayre (talk • contribs) .

Because the determination that something is 'advertising' or 'spam' can be subjective there isn't a speedy deletion criterion which covers those and thus no template for them. However, you can use {{prod|advertisement}} and if no-one removes the tag within five days it may be deleted by an admin (per Wikipedia:Proposed deletion). The base 'db' template can also be used with any reason under the form {{db|spam}}, but as noted this should only be used for established speedy delete criteria. --CBDunkerson 16:54, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Scary

I'd like to see a large template that warns people that the article has images or other thngs that may frighten people, this could go on articles like Harlequin Type Ichtyosis, which has as scary image of a person on it. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 67.165.46.77 (talk • contribs).

• Since Wikipedia is not censored I am not sure if this would gain support. A template you might use is, {{Warning}}, which should be used as follows: {{Warning|Insert your text here}}. Before placing that at the top of the page you might use the discussion page to see how other users feel about using that.--SomeStranger^(t) 20:34, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
  • I've created a template, and the proposal is now moved to village pump. Michaelas10 16:18, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
    • This is not such a good idea. Please see WP:NDT and WP:PEREN for further details. >Radiant< 12:26, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] fictional

I was thinking that it might be a good idea to have a template indicating that a given page is about fictional material, seeing how some pages about characters do not mention that they are from a fictional universe until the middle of the article. Arctic Gnome 20:52, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

This can be done by adding [[Category:Fictional characters]] or some other sub-set of Category:Fictional to the bottom of the article. It should also usually be possible to just add the word 'fictional' somewhere in the first sentence. --CBDunkerson 00:30, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Inappropriate Content Templates

Wikipedia is not censored, but it would be ideal to warn readers with templates that say things such as:

"This article contains profane language, and might not be appropriate for readers under the age of 18."

and:

"This article contains explicit images, and might not be appropriate for readers under the age of 18."

The templates could be red, to be more noticable. --Gray Porpoise 18:33, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

• I am not sure if something like this already exists. If nothing does then I need an image suggestion (the image to place in the template). Thanks.--SomeStranger^(t|c) 22:48, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
• Here are images I made. They are far from professional, but if the templates will be made, you may edit the images to your liking:

Image:Profanitywarning.JPG (for profanity) Image:Imagewarning.JPG (for images; the odd box is supposed to represent pixellation)

Please see Wikipedia:No disclaimer templates. -- Rick Block (talk) 03:16, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

Okay, I now understand. Thank you. --Gray Porpoise 01:39, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

What about Template:NSFWArticle? Vectro 17:05, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] stock charts

hai,

i want to create a template for a "stock chart" .please give me necessary "guidance" on this.

thank you.

You need to be much more specific. What do you want to be on this "stock chart template"? Just as a side-note - next time, please dont space out your request like you did - it disrupts the layout of the page. -- Alfakim -- talk 13:34, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Assuming that you want some sort of chart showing the rise and fall of a stock price... wiki templates don't really have that sort of detailed graphing capability and your best bet might be to upload an image to display. If you are talking about something more like statistics for a stock (52 week high & low, P/E, EPS, et cetera) then it could be set up as an {{Infobox}}, but would need to be manually updated. --CBDunkerson 23:56, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Update to protected template

Template talk:US-writer-stub has had an open request for modification since the end of April to change the wording to bring it in line with other such templates. Any help'd be appreciated. GeeJo ^(t)⁄_(c) • 13:03, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

There were requests to change "US" to both "U.S." and "American". I did the latter as that matches the similar Template:US-poet-stub. Also, {{editprotected}} is useful for drawing attention to such requests. --CBDunkerson 23:23, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

A simple request at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Stub sorting would be the best way of getting this quickly fixed. There are many many stub templates, and most of the people patrolling them are far more likely to notice requests at WP:WSS itself rather than on the individual template talk pages. Grutness...wha? 14:22, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Help with an esoteric template

Let me start off by saying I began this template in order to help synchronize various writing system articles, and the template turned out to be much more of a chore than I anticipated. I initially copied it from Template:Infobox Language, thinking I could tweak it, but now I realize that the esoteric code is quite overwhelming to the noobesque computer geek such as myself. I need some help with it. I, as well as other members from Wikipedia:WikiProject Writing systems have outlined parameters on its talkpage and now these plans need to be implemented. Would any wikipedian experienced with esoteric code be willing to help me edit this template? It's a bit of a big deal, we'll probably need another template for the colors if we are to follow the code from Template:Infobox Language. Thank you!-- The ikiroid 23:10, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

I made various changes related to this, but could use more guidance on design. See the talk page there. --CBDunkerson 00:36, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tales of Symphonia

I'd like to request a template that would link together articles related to the videogame Tales of Symphonia. There are a number of articles built around the subject, but they are scattered haphazardly in links. One trying to find information on various subjects would be forced to either search individually or search for links within independent articles.

Here are some of the articles that would be linked together: Lloyd Irving Mithos Yggdrasill Cruxis Kratos Aurion Eternal Sword Desians Kharlan War Martel Sylvarant Tethe'alla And there are more still. Having one common template to link these together would be, I feel, very beneficial.

Is Category:Tales of Symphonia characters not sufficient somehow? If you make sure all of the characters in in the category (by adding [[Category:Tales of Symphonia characters]]) at the bottom, they will all be in this category. -- Rick Block (talk) 03:02, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Be aware of talk page

I would like to have a template which read more or less the following:

This article has been the subject of extensive discussions concerning its wording. Please consult the talk page before performing any substantial changes to this article.

The rationale is the article Euro which has had a longer discussion of wether one should write 5 euro or 5 euros. A consensus seems to have been established, but every so often someone comes in and changes all occurences of euro into euros. I would like a template to warn them not to be too bold about editing an article which has had extensive discussions before reaching consensus. The templates Template:Disputed* could be used, but they are meant for talk pages, and this template should go on the main page. The article is not really in any factual dispute, as a consensus seems to have been reached. The template should not discourage boldness either, just make sure that no substantial changes are made before the talk page is consulted. Bfg 16:51, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

In general, people add statements like yours as comments, so that they are only visible when editing the article. You could add the following to the beginning of the article:

<!--XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX-->
<!--XXX                                           XXX-->
<!--XXX  This article has been the subject of     XXX-->
<!--XXX  extensive discussions concerning its     XXX-->
<!--XXX  wording.  Please consult the talk page   XXX-->
<!--XXX  before performing any substantial        XXX-->
<!--XXX  changes to this article.  Thank you.     XXX-->
<!--XXX                                           XXX-->
<!--XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX-->

and that text would only show up when someone goes to edit the page. — Reinyday, 01:26, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

I think that such a warning simply would not be enough, given most edits in such a big article is done on the subheading level.

What we could need might be a template that was only visible on the edit page, but would be visible for all editing. Would that be feasible? Bfg 14:46, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Trademark template

I was looking for a treademark template to add to a page BitTorrent to indicate that the name BitTorrent is a trademark. It seems to me that a template that puts a small box indicating that the word/phrase given as a paramater is a trademark (or registered trademark) would be usefull on many pages. Trapper 18:06, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

Does the trademark symbol (®) not suffice? You can copy and paste the unicode character, or input it using the HTML code ®. -- Rick Block (talk) 04:36, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Of course, if it's not a registered trademark, just use ™ Nil Einne 01:09, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

I think the Manual of Style discourages trademark symbols, anyway. -Amarkov ^blah_edits 01:14, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] TVR template

Hope I make myself clear.

I desire a template to go on my talk page, and, since I'm a novice at HTML stuff, I hope one of you guys would be kind enough to help.

Right - I'd prefer it if it were in exactly the same format as above (same box, same size etc), I'd like it to say 'This user is a TVR enthusiast' in the right-hand box like it does in the above, and use [this image] as the picture on the left, same size preferably.

Cheers in advance, Abarthaddict 18:09, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

user:Aeon1006 has a bunch of these as subpages, you might want to ask him about it (there's a chance that these are discouraged in template-space). I've created it as a subpage of your user page.

-- Rick Block (talk) 00:26, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Future Event, date specific, effecting the status of an article

I see the need for a general Future Event template, indicating the specified date, where the status of an article will change - with the facility for a brief description of change (needed); see Talk:Haslev municipality, this is infrequently edited and may not be changed promptly after it becomes redundant. The specified date function could be indexed, so it could alert admins of a article in need of update (although this may create a slew of alerts every January 1st).LessHeard vanU 21:14, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Updating information. This does not provide the description that you mention, but this could be easily added as a comment near the top of the article. --Scott McNay 02:02, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. I will give it a try.LessHeard vanU 10:14, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

I have used it in the article - I have made some observations over at Template talk:Update after which I hope are useful. Thanks againLessHeard vanU 11:03, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

Template:Update after now fulfills the requirements I suggested. Great work.LessHeard vanU 19:58, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

And we didn't even have to change it! :) --Scott McNay 00:41, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Content that may offend

I have created a template to be used on pages that utilize content that may offend some users. It is located at Template:May_Offend. Please let me know what the general feeling on this type of template is among fellow Wikipedians. Thanks! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Chrisbrl88 (talk • contribs).

Already proposed (and rejected) above. Please see Wikipedia:No disclaimer templates -- Xtifr _tälk 06:40, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Evolving technology??

Or something similar. See Blu-ray Disc which at the moment is using the "current event" template at Template:Current; however this is not the purpose of that template, and there does not seem to be an appropriate one available. The purpose of a new template would be to replace Template:Future product once the product was released, but still rapidly evoloving. --Notmicro 02:14, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

You might want to bring this up at Portal:Technology (or its talk page). There doesn't seem to be a category for emerging technologies (although there is an article Emerging technologies). The template itself is a fairly trivial matter (copy and paste the current events template). -- Rick Block (talk) 04:30, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Template:As of

Given that the use of As of is considered a violation of standards (but is used due to lack of a good alternative), I was fiddling with using a template. However, I keep running into dead-ends. My current solution is workable, but has the cost of a blank space. Please see my page for the sample, see Template:As of for what I have so far, and Wikipedia_talk:As_of to see the discussion about As of. --Scott McNay 06:30, 30 July 2006 (UTC).

Update: I made a category, which seems to be the best solution so far. Changing the category name to something like "To be reviewed in" or "Needs review in" might be a good idea also, as in "To be reviewed in 2007" or "Needs review in 2007". --Scott McNay 07:12, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

I suggest discussion about this continue at Wikipedia_talk:As_of, rather than here. -- Rick Block (talk) 15:33, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Do Not Delete Template

i've created a couple of articles two times, and they have been deleted twice. i'm thinking of adding some kind of template, with an image that says "delete" in a circle that is slashed. text should say "Please Do Not Delete This Article. It has been requested by a user who wants to keep it undeleted. If you think this article should be deleted, please discuss it in the article's talk page." if you could do a link to several talk pages, that'd be great. i don't know how to link multiple talk pages. it's just a suggestion, because the articles i've made i want to keep. just try, if you can. thanks! talk back in my talk page. Jailbreaker22 02:00, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

As seems to happen a lot, this is a simple template to make. But it's based on a false premise, namely, that an author may prevent deletion by saying they don't want it to be deleted. As requested, also responded on user talk. -Amarkov ^blah_edits 02:03, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Proposal to create a smoking fetish template

To whom it may concern: I would like to suggest creating a template for the purpose of addressing a subject known officially as capagnolia; more-commonly known and refered to as "smoking fetish". My request is not-only based on personal opinion, but actually rooted in a lifetime of experience. This highly-underated, misunderstood & exclusive (some might say "exquisite") subject today more than ever - considering it`s particular composition & range of unique aspects, esp. a steadily-growing & seemingly never-ending supply of modern-day PC-related subject matter (PC in this case meaning both "politically-correct" AND "personal computer") - I believe more than qualifies it for a discussion template of it`s own origin & useful purpose.

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That's not what templates are for. The idea behind a template is that you are going to use it on multiple pages, so you want a standardized form. Templates aren't to include in just one article. Besides, "addressing capagnolia" isn't nearly enough detail to create a template from. -Amarkov ^babble 20:02, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Template for emergency medical conditions

It would be useful to have a template that refers people to their local emergency phone number based on IP geography: in the US, it would say "call 911 immediately", in Australia, it would say "call 000 immediately". At present, pages either have to bifurcate (a bad idea in an emergency), pick one, or omit the instruction entirely. Although wikipedia is obviously not a good reference for emergency medical problems, many emergency conditions (e.g., stroke, heart attack) come with confusion, so a victim might end up consulting wikipedia anyway. A template that refers users to their local emergency phone number is the best way to fight this.

Because of proxies and other technical limitations, it might be better to say "call xxx or your local emergency phone number immediately". This in turn could link to a page listing emergency numbers for various countries. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Vectro (talk • contribs).

Templates don't have access to the IP address of the viewer, so this is not currently possible. We could create a template that includes a link to Emergency telephone number which lists such numbers by country. -- Rick Block (talk) 03:39, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Perhaps, then a template which reads "Dial 911, 112, 999, or your local emergency telephone number immediately." Vectro 16:45, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] italian motorways template

hello, i'd like to have a template about italian motorways. i don't have any specific guideline, it should be quite the same as the UK motorways template. thank you. --J0mb 08:46, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

There is not enough information to complete this request. Mike Dillon 14:56, 6 December 2006 (UTC)