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 25 September 2016 T 23:31 UTC. | Talk page top | ||
{{recent death}} |
Article top | |||
{{recentism}} |
Article top | |||
{{update}} |
Article or section top |
{{correct title|title=article}} |
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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 |