Wikipedia:WikiProject Ships/Tools

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[edit] WikiProject Ships Tools

[edit] Available templates and userboxes

[edit] Key project templates

  • {{WikiProject Ships}} - Project Banner to be placed on discussion pages of articles within project scope. As well as "laying claim" to the article, it helps us assess article quality and direct resources to articles that need work. Articles are given a quality and importance rating as per the project's assessment criteria.
  • {{shipindex|name=ship name}} to be placed on all ship name disambiguation pages (e.g. {{shipindex|name=Enterprise, USS}}).

[edit] Infobox template

See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject Ships/Tables

This standard infobox template has been developed to present information on military and civilian ships and ship classes in a consistent format.

[edit] Request templates

[edit] Editing shortcut templates

Save your fingers and avoid typos.

[edit] Linking shortcuts

Linking to a ship or ship class article can involve a lot of extra typing, because ship names are italicized, but ship prefixes and other text in the article title are not. The following templates are shortcuts that will automatically format text when linking to a ship or ship class article.

Note: these templates have tunable output; see individual template documentation for details.

WP:SHIPS shortcut templates:

Class shortcuts
  • {{sclass}} – Shortcut for ship classes that are named for the lead ship
  • {{sclass2}} – Shortcut for ship classes that are named for a common theme


Ship prefix shortcuts
Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS) templates


[edit] Measurement shortcuts

[edit] Other shortcuts
  • {{navy}} - for adding the naval ensign and linked navy

[edit] Hatnote template

Hatnotes are very brief italicized notes placed at the top of an article. In ship articles, hatnotes are usually used to link to a disambiguation page for other ships of the same name, or to link to individual ship articles in the absence of a disambiguation page. A hatnote link is preferable to a 'See also' link where ship articles are concerned, as ships very frequently share names and hatnotes are highly visible.

  • {{otherships}} - for inserting a hatnote that links to other ship articles or ship disambiguation pages

[edit] Navigational footer templates

These templates provide an easy way to navigate between ships of the same class or type. See Category:Naval navigational boxes for a complete listing of all existing navigational templates for ships.

[edit] User vanity templates


[edit] Stub types

[edit] Ensigns, Jacks, Pennants, and Other Vexillologs

WikiProject Ships has a large collection of graphics of flags, jacks, pennants and other vexillologs, useful in ship articles.