Category:Infobox templates

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Due to the scope of this category, it should contain only subcategories and possibly a limited number of directly-related pages.

Infobox templates are templates which provide standardized information across related articles. Infoboxes may be "freeform" or partially automated based on parameters. Subcategories are based on Wikipedia:Categorical index and List of overviews. The pages listed in this category should be infobox templates. Further template category notes This category contains pages in the template namespace. It should not be used to categorize articles or pages in other namespaces. μ = stub;  τ = template;  ω = WikiProject;  ρ = WikiReader To include a template in this category, add <noinclude>[[Category:Infobox templates|{{PAGENAME}}]]</noinclude> to the end of the template code, making sure it starts on the same line as the last character of the code.

[edit] Using sortkeys

This section applies to adding an infobox to the category, nothing special needs to be done when adding an infobox to an article.

To add an infobox to the category, make sure to use a Sort key. For example, when adding Template:Infobox President, one would use the following code:

{| class="infobox"
|...table code...
|}<noinclude>
[[Category:Infobox templates|President]]
</noinclude>

Piping the category with the word "President" ensures the template is inserted into the category under "P".

A <noinclude> tag is required to ensure only the template appears in the category (as opposed to every article the infobox is part of appearing in the category).

Please include the first noinclude tag on the same line as the end of the table. For example

|}<noinclude>

Not doing this may break the formatting on articles using the template.

[edit] Creating infoboxes

See Wikipedia:Infobox templates and Help:Infobox

For a sample infobox, see either Template:Infobox or Template:Infobox Conditionals.

Note that many templates can appear in more than one category: Template:Infobox golfer is in both Category:People infobox templates and Category:Sports infobox templates.