Note: This page contains details of templates relating to article descriptions.
Templates related to issues and disputes with articles, including NPOV, are listed under Template messages/Disputes.
Templates related to formatting are listed under Template messages/Format.
Templates related to Cleanup issues are listed under Template messages/Cleanup.
Contents
Disambiguation and redirection
On disambiguation pages
- For others, see MediaWiki:Disambiguationspage. For hatnote templates used to distinguish pages, see Wikipedia:Hatnote#Distinguish or Template:Hatnote templates documentation
What to type | What it produces | Where to put it |
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{{ disambiguation }} |
Bottom of disambiguation pages. |
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{{ disambiguation cleanup }} |
Bottom of disambiguation pages that need cleanup. |
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{{ geodis }} |
Bottom of disambiguation pages consisting only of geographic locations. |
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{{ hndis }} |
Bottom of disambiguation pages whose title is a human name. |
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{{ numberdis }} Redirect: {{numdab}} |
Bottom of number-oriented |
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{{ SIA }} |
Bottom of list articles about a set of items of a specific type that share the same (or similar) name. |
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{{ surname }} |
This template should be used only in the article (main) namespace. | Bottom of surname (last name) disambiguation pages. |
In introductory lines
- Note: ordinarily, these templates should be substituted.[why?]
What to type | What it produces | Where to put it |
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{{ refer| Topic }}Redirects: {{disamb1}}, {{may refer to}}, ... |
Topic may refer to: | Top |
{{ disamb2 }} Redirect: {{itref}} |
It may refer to: | In line |
{{ disamb3 }} Redirect: {{theyref}} |
They may refer to: | In line |
{{ disamb4| '''Topic'''| description }}Redirects: {{refers2}}, {{mayrefer2}} |
Topic may refer to description: | Top |
{{ disambiguation name| Name }}Redirect: {{nameref}} |
The name Name may refer to: | Top |
{{ disamb-name2| Topic| description }}Redirect: {{nameof}} |
Topic is the name of description, including: | Top |
{{ disamb-term| term }}Redirect: {{termref}} |
The term "term" may refer to: | Top |
{{ disamb-terms| term1| term2 }}Redirect: {{termsref}} |
The terms "term1" and "term2" may refer to: | Top |
Section
See also: Wikipedia:Template messages/Section
What to type | What it makes | Where it goes |
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{{ details| location }} |
For more details on this topic, see location.
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Sections near top |
{{ further| location }} |
Further information: location
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Sections near top |
{{ main| location }} |
Main article: location
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Sections near top |
{{ main list| location }} |
For a more comprehensive list, see location.
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Sections near top |
Footnotes and references
What to type | What it makes | Where it goes |
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{{ citation }} |
Makes a formatted citation for use with Harvard style reference links. | Articles notes or references |
{{ Harvard citation| name| year }}Redirect: {{harv}} |
Makes a Harvard style reference link. | Articles notes or references |
{{ note| name }} |
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Articles notes or references |
{{ note label| name|label|backlink }} |
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Articles notes or references |
{{ ref| name }} |
Makes reference links and footnotes[1] that are numbered automatically.[2] | Articles notes or references |
{{ ref label| name|label|backlink }} |
Makes reference links and footnotes[1] with specific labels.[2] | Articles notes or references |
See also: Wikipedia:Current event templates and Category:Temporal templates
What to type | What it makes | Where it goes | ||
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{{anachronism}} |
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Article or section top | ||
{{current}} |
Use 'section' in 2nd parameter, if tagging a section. |
Article top or section | ||
{{current disaster}} |
Article top | |||
{{current person}} |
Article top | |||
{{current related}} |
Article top | |||
{{current spaceflight}} |
Article top | |||
{{current sport}} |
Article top | |||
{{current sports transaction}} |
Article top | |||
{{high traffic}} category |
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Talk page top | ||
{{now}} |
The current date and time is 29 March 2016 T 22:07 UTC. | Talk page top | ||
{{recent death}} |
Article top | |||
{{recentism}} |
Article top | |||
{{update}} |
Article or section top |
{{ correct title| title=article }} |
The correct title of this article is article. It appears incorrectly here because of technical restrictions.
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Article top |
{{ lowercase title| article }} |
Decapitalises first letter of page title; for use in articles whose title is incorrectly capitalized due to technical restrictions, such as iPod. | Article top |
Character/symbol notes
{{ IPA notice }} |
Article top | |
{{ special characters }} |
Article top |
Expansion requests
See also: Expansion requests in the talk namespace
What to type | What it makes | Where it goes |
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{{expand section}} {{expand section|text}} |
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Section top |
{{histinfo}} {{histinfo|text}} |
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Talk page top |
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