Wikipedia:Template messages

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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.

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 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.

Article-related namespace

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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.

General 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	Article sources Citation templates for generic and specific sources GFDL sources Public domain sources Requesting sources and verification U.S. government sources	Links To databases (IMDb, Gutenberg, etc.) To main articles To geographic locations and maps To notes about German names To sibling projects	Sister Projects Wikiquote Wiktionary Wikibooks Wikisource Wikimedia Commons Wikinews Wikiversity Wikispecies Mediawiki Meta-Wiki Links Soft redirects Transwiki copy
For deletion/deletion discussion Articles (AfD) Categories (CfD) Images and media (IfD) Redirects (RfD) Speedy deletion (D) Templates (TfD) Stub types (SfD)	Disputes and warnings Accuracy Suspected hoax Neutrality Original research Contradictory Controversial Unencyclopedic Notability Autobiography	Maintenance 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	Cleanup 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
Compact TOC Tables of contents: 0-9/A-Z Category TOCs	Lists Dynamic lists Incomplete lists Subject or topic lists Disputed content/length	Redirect pages To be placed at the end of the same line as the redirect tag.	Subject matter boxes and diagrams Calendars Court Decisions Diagrams Game and Puzzle layouts Grids Periodic Table

Non article-related namespace

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Project namespace Policies and non-policies Village Talk WikiProjects WP:Sandbox WP:FAQ WP:BJAODN (Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense)	Category namespace Births in Years Books in Years Deaths in Years More information Categorization of people: Subjective Category Disclaimer Disputed categorisation	User namespace Contribution Licensing Disclaimer Languages New Page Links Open Tasks Picture of the Day Shared IP Wikimedia Licensing	User talk namespace Experimenting & Vandalism Notices Shared IP Notices Spamming Notices Three Revert Rule User Talk Requests Welcome Messages Edit-summary request Minor-edit reminder
Talk namespace Featured articles (and candidates) Expansion requests Request Photo/Images Comments Discussion thread tags Free Images Translation requests Peer review To Do lists WikiProject notices	Image namespace 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 templates

• Main page and alternatives – For templates used on one of the Wikipedia's Main Pages.
• Wikipedia:Template messages/Format lists templates related to formatting.
• 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.
• 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.
• Wikipedia:Userboxes are user information boxes designed for user pages.
• Wikipedia:WikiProject user warnings to create a complete, standardised set of user warning templates with full documentation and help pages.
• Category:Internationalisation maintenance templates. Templates noting a particular national or regional viewpoint of an article, and asking for a worldwide view. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Countering systemic bias for some template banner examples compiled in one place.

Wiki templates

The wiki templates are powerful tools for editing Wikipedia articles. A "wiki template" is a kind of sub-template, and the "Wikipedia Edit Language" uses the notation {{template-name}} for the sub-template reference.

Technical note: "Wiki template references" are embedded on the "Wikipedia Edit Language", as a web template embedded language, using the open {{ and close }} hooks, for enclose the wiki template language syntax, where valid names and valid instructions can be used, like template reference, as {{disambig}}, and conditions, as {{#if:{{{variable_foo|}}} | foo yes |foo is blank }}.

See also

• Wikipedia:Colours in templates.