Template:Image other

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This template is used on 600,000+ pages To avoid any disruptions and to save server load, any changes should first be tested in this template's /sandbox or /testcases subpage, or in your own user space. The tested changes can then be added in one single edit to this template. As a courtesy to other users, please discuss any changes at the talk page before implementing them.

This is the {{image other}} meta-template.

It helps other templates detect what type of page they are on.

Basic usage

This template usually takes two parameters, like this:

{{image other | Image page text | Other pages text }}

If the template is on an image page, it will return this:

Image page text

If the template is on any other page, it will return this:

Other pages text

A typical usage case could be to make it so that a template only adds a category when on image pages. Thus not adding other pages that just show the template to the category. Like this:

{{image other | [[Category:Some image maintenance category]] }}

Or to warn that a template should not be used on other pages:

{{image other | | This template should only be used on image pages. }}

Note that in the first case above the "other" parameter was not used, and in the second example the "image" parameter was left empty.

Advanced usage

This template works like {{main talk other}}, see full documentation there. Note that it detects "Image talk:" pages as type other. The test parameter demospace for this template understands the values image and other.

See also

• {{main other}} – For article templates.
• {{talk other}} – For talk page templates.
• {{category other}} – For category templates.

• {{main talk other}} – Separates some namespaces.
• {{main talk category other}} – Separates some more namespaces.

• {{namespace detect}} – The extremely versatile one.