Wikipedia:Template messages

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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.

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.

Can improvements be made easily?

Before placing templates on a page, it is worthwhile to cast a critical eye over the page to determine whether or not the improvements could be made easily, thus eliminating the need for a tag.

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.

General Disambiguation and redirection Section Timing (Current events, etc) Title (distinguishment between deceptively similar titles, etc) Special character warnings Footnotes and references Expansion requests Miscellaneous (Lorem ipsum, etc)	Sources / Citations / References Requesting sources and verification General sources Citations of generic sources Citations of specific sources (GFDL, public domain, U.S. government, etc) Footnotes and links	Links Internal links (articles, namespaces, categories) Templates German titles External links (databases, websites, etc) Film and television (IMDb, YouTube, etc) Games (board, video game, etc) Geography (locations/maps) Literature (books, etc) Music Religion Wikis (sister projects, etc) Miscellaneous (science, Internet, etc)	Cleanup Tag Consolidation: combining the other cleanup tags into one messagebox General cleanup: Complete rewrite, section, remainder, copyediting, grammar/punctuation/spelling Writing style: Clarity, tone, etc Structures and sections Potentially unwanted content: Copyright, content policy, spam, trivia, etc Context and detail: Too specialized/technical, off-topic Expand and add: General, diagrams/images Expert needed: Authenticity/verification Time-sensitive Contradiction and confusion: Misleading/vague Neutrality and factual accuracy: Dubious, opinion, weasel words, etc Importance and notability: Significance Verifiability and sources: Consistency, absent/broken citations, original research, etc Introduction: Length, vague, complete rewrite Lists, Images (blur, exposure, size, etc) Wiki tech: Wikify, uncategorized, disambiguation, orphans Infobox needed Subject-specific: Fiction, etc Miscellaneous Merges Splitting Moving: Articles, sister projects, etc Translations
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)	Disputes and warnings Accuracy Suspected hoax Neutrality Original research Contradictory Controversial Unencyclopedic Notability Autobiography	Maintenance Article in use (major edits) Protected from editing/vandalism Copyright violations Article issues General attention needed ISSN issues Lack of geopolitical balance IPA conversion Categorization issues	Sister Projects Wikiquote Wiktionary Wikibooks Wikisource Wikimedia Commons Wikinews Wikiversity Wikispecies Mediawiki Meta-Wiki Linking between projects Soft redirects Transwiki copy
Compact Tables of Contents (TOC) Non-Category Alphabetical (A-Z) Numerical (0-9) Category Alphabetical (A-Z) Numerical (0-9)	Lists Dynamic lists Incomplete lists Subject or topic lists Disputed content/length	Redirect pages To be placed at the end of the same line as the redirect tag.	Subject matter boxes and diagrams Calendars Court Decisions Diagrams Game and Puzzle layouts Grids Periodic Table
Formatting Division boxes Multiple columns Image holders Hide/show boxes

Non article-related namespace

Wikipedia Policies and non-policies Village Talk WikiProjects WP:Sandbox WP:FAQ	Category Births in Years Books in Years Deaths in Years More information Categorization of people: Subjective Category Disclaimer Disputed categorisation	User Languages Contribution licensing Userboxes User Sandboxes Disclaimer New page links Open tasks Picture of the day Wikimedia licensing Awards	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
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	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	Template Template documentation High-use and intricate Template talk page messages

Related pages for specific types of templates

Meta has related information at:

Template messages

MediaWiki wiki has a page about this at:

Help:Templates

• Wikipedia:Template messages/Main page and alternatives for templates used on one of the Wikipedia's Main Pages.
• Wikipedia:Navigation templates and Category:Navbox (navigational) templates for list of the navigation templates.
• Wikipedia:Infobox templates are designed to present summary information about an article's subject in an uniform format.
• Wikipedia:Taxobox usage describes taxonomical infoboxes for biological classification.
• Wikipedia:Country referencing templates that provide a tiny thumbnail of a country's flag.
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types is the full listing of thousands of stub types.
• Wikipedia:MediaWiki namespace controls interface messages for internal system use, and can only be modified by administrators.
• Wikipedia:WikiProject user warnings to create a complete, standardised set of user warning templates with full documentation and help pages.
• Category:Internationalisation maintenance templates noting a particular national or regional bias of an article, and asking for a worldwide view.
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Countering systemic bias#Related cleanup templates for useful examples.
• Wikipedia:Deprecated and orphaned templates to coordinate efforts to maintain the template namespace by removing unneeded templates in an orderly and systematic manner.
• Special:Unusedtemplates - lists all templates which are not transcluded in another page.

See also

• Wikipedia:Template standardisation
• Wikipedia:Colours in templates
• Wikipedia:Stub - guidelines for stub template creation
• Wikipedia:Template limits
• Wikipedia:Template substitution
• Help:Template - wiki template help page
• m:Help:Substitution - more detailed information on subst template (on the Meta-Wiki)
• Help:Link