ConRunner:Template messages

Templates are used within articles to provide a consistent look to the messages placed into them. Changes to the look, wording, or style of the message can be implemented quickly, because templates are rendered for the reader when the article loads.

Templates often look like text boxes with a different background colour than that of normal text. They are in the Conrunner Template namespace, ie. pages with "Template:" in front of the name. For example, consider the template Template:Spoiler (follow the link to see the page where it can be edited). To insert the template's content into an article, type {{Spoiler}} in the wiki page ( {{Spoiler}} is called a template tag ). Every article with that tag in it will display the following line:

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

This technique is commonly known as Wikipedia:transclusion.

Spaces in the name are allowed, e.g. {{train topics}}. The first character (only) is not case-sensitive, so {{cleanup}} and {{Cleanup}} both work.

Templates can also accept parameters which are then inserted into the output of the template.

Templates in the article namespace provide information to help readers. These can include navigation aids, or warnings that content is sub-standard. Templates that provide information only of service to editors belong on an article's talk page.

Historically, an "msg:" prefix had to be added in front of the template name when used on a page. For example, {{msg:stub}} was typed instead of {{stub}}. In addition, the MediaWiki namespace was used also for templates until the creation of the template namespace.

Instructions: When you add new template messages to this page, please help keep the tables in alphabetical order.

Main page and alternatives

For templates used on one of the Wikipedia's Main Pages.

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. See also Wikipedia:Article series.

Template:Clear

General

Current events
Disambiguation / Other uses
Expansion requests
Footnotes / References
Instructions
Lorem ipsum
Miscellaneous info
Solution and spoiler warnings
Special character warnings
Technical limitations
Tools

Article sources

Citation templates for generic and specific sources
GFDL sources
Public domain sources
Requesting sources and verification
U.S. government sources

Links

To databases (IMDb, Gutenberg, etc.)
To main articles
To maps
To notes about German names
To sister projects

Sister Projects

All templates relating to Wikimedia sister projects

This link will take you back to Wikipedia. These templates are not fully implemented on ConRunner.

For deletion

Categories (CFD)
Images and media (IFD)
Redirects (RFD)
Speedy deletion
Templates (TFD)
Votes (VFD)

Issues & Disputes

Article needs:

Attention / Cleanup
Copyediting / Grammar check
Images, ISBNs, IPA conversion
Merging / Splitting
Translation

Disputes and warnings:

Accuracy / Neutrality
Original research
Contradictory
Controversial
Geographically limited
Lacks direction
Language
Two versions
Unencyclopedic

Maintenance

Article in use (major edits)
Category needs attention/expansion/
clean-up
Copyright violations
Move to sister projects
Needs categorization
Needs translation
Protected from editing/vandalism

Cleanup

Wikify
Translate
Clarity; technical
Complete rewrite
Verify facts
Context; tone
Copyediting
Copyright violation
Move; merge
Self-contradictory
Disputed
General cleanup

(Some but not all of these are also on other lists.)

Compact TOC

Tables of contents: 0-9/A-Z
Category TOCs

Lists

Dynamic lists
Incomplete lists
Subject or topic lists

Infoboxes

Table attributes for specific infoboxes
Conservation status of species for taxoboxes

Redirect pages

To be inserted at the bottom of redirect page, but does not prevent the redirect from working.

Note: This feature is broken in MediaWiki 1.4. See the Bugzilla:927 bug report.

Talk namespace

Featured articles (and candidates)
Free images
Korea-related
Link to translation
Peer review
ToDo lists
WikiProject notices
WikiProject inactive notice
Comment

Image name space

Copyright status unknown or unverified
Creative commons licensed image
Fair use claimed
Free image
GNU/GFDL image
Images and media for deletion
Image categorization
Non-free (copyrighted) image
Public domain image
Semi-free image

Media namespace

Sound sample (Ogg, fair use claimed)

Note: Please use navigational templates for linking topic-related articles together.

Non article-related namespace

Project namespace

Policies and non-policies
Village Talk
WikiProjects
WP:Sandbox
WP:FAQ
WP:BJAODN (Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense)

Category namespace

Births in Years
Books in Years
Deaths in Years
More information
"Subjective Category Disclaimer" {{SCD}} - See: Wikipedia:Categorization of people (note: the template is not a "category", but for use on category pages)

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User namespace

Contribution Licensing
Disclaimer
Languages
New Page Links
Open Tasks
Picture of the Day
Shared IP
Wikimedia Licensing

User talk namespace

Experimenting & Vandalism Notices
Shared IP Notices
Spamming Notices
Three Revert Rule
User Talk Requests
Welcome Messages

All templates

ConRunner:Template messages/All (Very long page)

Template sandbox

If you wish to experiment with templates (and not have your experiments deleted before you are done with them), you may do so in the Template sandbox. You may also use the templates X1, X2, and X3 for experimental purposes.

Related pages for specific types of templates

Wikipedia has an extensive set of templates for all occaisions. ConRunner uses a small subset of these, customized for use here. These links may be useful if something in the broader set over there become useful.

Wikipedia:Navigational templates are designed to provide links to several related articles.
Wikipedia:Infobox templates are designed to present summary information about an article's subject, such that similar subjects have a uniform look and in a common format. Conrunner may adopt this idea in time.
Wikipedia:Country referencing templates are designed to provide a tiny thumbnail of a country's flag next to its hyperlinked name, meant to visually improve lists of nations.
Wikipedia:Wikipedia Stub sorting/Stub types is the full listing of stub types. There are dozens of stub templates and associated categories. The creation and organization of stub types is being addressed by the Wikipedia Stub sorting. The guidelines for template creation are found at Wikipedia:Stub.
- The high level topical subdivisions of stub templates are General, Culture, Commerce, Government and politics, Leisure, Sports, Religion and belief, Geography, History, People, Science, Technology, Transportation, Military and weaponry, and Miscellaneous.
Wikipedia:Image copyright tags are copyright and licensing messages and other related tags for image description pages (the image namespace).

The MediaWiki namespace controls interface messages for internal system use, and can only be modified by administrators.