Wikipedia:Template messages

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Contents

This page provides an index for a wide range of standard templates in use within Wikipedia. Whether you are providing a custom message or a pastel box or are flagging articles, adding tags, or adding templates, this page also gives an overview of what subjects are covered within each heading.

[edit] Using this page

The bold links at the top of each cell lead to detailed pages that describe the templates in that section in detail, and how and when to use them.

If you cannot find the template you are looking for, please click on the section headers that seem most relevant, since there may be templates for a particular usage covered on the detailed pages, but not listed in the table below.

If after searching, you still 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. Note that in order to maintain consistent design of templates there have been significant discussions about a variety of templates at both Wikipedia talk:Article message boxes and Wikipedia talk:Talk page templates.

A more comprehensive category system may also be viewed at Category:Wikipedia templates.

[edit] Article-related namespace

Please list navigational templates (as, for example, between pages relating to a specific topic) at Wikipedia:Navigational templates or at the appropriate WikiProject page.

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General


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Sources / Citations / References


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Links


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Cleanup


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Deletion / Renaming / Discussion


  • Deletion of:
    • Articles (AfD)
    • Categories (CfD)
    • Images and media (IfD)
    • Redirects (RfD)
    • Speedy deletion (D)
    • Templates (TfD)
    • Stub types (SfD)
  • Moving or Renaming (within Wikipedia or to other wikis)

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Disputes and warnings


  • Accuracy
  • Suspected hoax
  • Neutrality
  • Original research
  • Contradictory
  • Controversial
  • Unencyclopedic
  • Notability
  • Autobiography

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Maintenance


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Sister Projects


  • Wikiquote
  • Wiktionary
  • Wikibooks
  • Wikisource
  • Wikimedia Commons
  • Wikinews
  • Wikiversity
  • Wikispecies
  • Mediawiki
  • Meta-Wiki
  • Linking between projects
  • Soft redirects
  • Transwiki copy

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Compact Tables of Contents (TOC)


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Lists


  • Dynamic lists
  • Incomplete lists
  • Subject or topic lists
  • Disputed content/length

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Redirect pages


  • To be placed at the end of the same line as the redirect tag.

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Subject matter boxes and diagrams


  • Calendars
  • Court Decisions
  • Diagrams
  • Game and Puzzle layouts
  • Grids
  • Periodic Table

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Formatting


  • Division boxes
  • Multiple columns
  • Image holders


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Wikipedia


  • Policies and non-policies
  • Village Talk
  • WikiProjects
  • WP:Sandbox
  • WP:FAQ

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Category


  • Births in Years
  • Books in Years
  • Deaths in Years
  • More information
  • Categorization of people:
    • Subjective Category Disclaimer
    • Disputed categorisation

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User


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User talk


  • Experimenting & Vandalism Notices
  • Shared IP Notices
  • Spamming Notices
  • Three Revert Rule
  • User Talk Requests
  • Welcome Messages
  • Edit-summary request
  • Minor-edit reminder
  • Block notices
  • Wide range of other warnings and notices

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Talk


  • Talk
    • Featured articles (and candidates)
    • Expansion requests
    • Request Photo/Images
    • Comments
    • Discussion thread tags
    • Free Images
    • Translation requests
    • Peer review
    • To Do lists
  • WikiProject notices

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Image


  • 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

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Template


  • Template documentation
  • High-use and intricate
  • Template talk page messages

[edit] Related pages for specific types of templates

Meta has related information at:
MediaWiki wiki has a page about this at:

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