Wikipedia:Requested templates/Existing/2007/July

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[edit] Outdated Information Template

We need a template message box that editors can add to the top of an article whose information is outdated, to alert other visitors/editors of the need to bring it up to date. It might says, "This information is out of date. Please update it." —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Cadwallader (talk • contribs).

I think this is adequately covered in Category:Time and date maintenance templates, for example {{Out of date}} and {{Update}}. PrimeHunter 14:13, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Request for help with template coding and usage

This may be the wrong place to ask... but I did have one editor suggest I try here. I have a {{helpme}} on my own talk page asking for some help with template coding and usage. The request is: Help on templates. I want to know in particular how to place arguments within a template that might expand to include equals signs or other things that break the further expansion; and I want to know the best way to have short tags for my own experimental temporary templates. If anyone wants to help answer questions like that -- or if you want to tell me where I should have asked! -- please follow the link and clue me in. Thanks -- Duae Quartunciae (talk · cont) 13:49, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

I have already written a simple template myself, User:Duae Quartunciae/T/rev. Clicking on the link shows noinclude documentation. It's just a simple template for generating a link to a revision of an article. It can be improved... but what I WANT is this.

At present, I can type {{subst:User:Duae Quartunciae/T/rev|User:Duae Quartunciae/T/rev|146509269|this one}} and I will generate a link to an early revision of the documentation of my template. I use "subst", because the template is only temporary, while I'm experimenting. What I WANT to be able to do is declare variable of some kind that I can use quickly and easily in the edit window. Maybe a button that inserts the string "subst:User:Duae Quartunciae/T/", or a way to declare a little private use variable, so that "{{{{MY}}rev|146509269|this one}}" would appear as "{{subst:User:Duae Quartunciae/T/rev|146509269|this one}}". How can I do this? —Duae Quartunciae (talk · cont) 12:59, 24 July 2007 (UTC)