Tesseract:Templates

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This article is about available templates. For policy regarding templates, see Tesseract:Template policy.

Templates are used to duplicate the same content across more than one page. Changing a template in one place will immediately propagate the changes to all the pages that use it.

This page lists templates of this wiki. You can even create a template, just as long as you are sure it will be used on many pages or will benefit the wiki in some way, and that you or another editor can document it well. For more information on templates, check out Wikipedia's template page or Wikimedia's template page.

A list of all Tesseract Wiki templates is available at All pages (Template namespace). For a list of templates, see this page. Unused templates can be found at Special:Unusedtemplates.

To insert a template into a page, type {{TemplateName}} (this is known as a tag) somewhere on the page, whether it be at the top or at the bottom or in a certain section. Every page with that tag in it will display the template text. TemplateName is the name after the colon symbol, e.g. the TemplateName for Template:Cleanup is Cleanup, so typing {{Cleanup}} will add that tag to a page.

Article namespace

Maintenance

Template	Use	Where to put it
{{cleanup|Reason}}	Article needs attention for various reasons	Top
{{Incomplete|Reason}}	Article missing vital information	Top
{{Inuse}}	You are currently working on major changes to this article	Top
{{NPOV}}	Article is presented in a biased voice	Top
{{Obsolete|Reason}}	Article is outdated	Top
{{Stub}}	The article only contains basic information and there is unknown vital information to add	Bottom
{{Sectstub}}	Same as above, but for a specific section	Underneath the header of the section
{{Construction}}	The article is undergoing major changes, but not necessarily in progress	Top
{{NeedPic}}	Article is in need of pictures (outside of the infoboxes)	Top
{{Too big}}	Article contains too much extraneous code or prose	Top
{{Disputed}}	Article with factual information that is contested	Top
{{Restricted title|reason}}	Page title is different from in game name due to technical limitations; see Category:Pages with technically restricted titles	Bottom

Related articles

Template	Use	Where to put it
{{Main|article}}	Section has a relevant article	Section header
{{Hasdialogue}}	Article has a transcript of dialogue	Relevant section

List creation

Template	Use
{{Alphabetical header}}	Create a formatted A–Z table of contents
{{top}}	Link to return to top of the article

Inline templates

Template	Use
{{fact}}	Statements needs a reliable source cited
{{Namemedia}}	Statement needs media links for time reference
{{sic}}	An error exists from the original source
{{AnchorText}}	Give the text an id attribute for direct linking
{{purge}}	Add a link to refresh a page cache
{{section link}}	Link to a section of another article

Formatting

Template	Use
{{FloorNumber}}	Format floor numbers
{{clear}}	Clear space after floating elements
{{nbsp}}	Intentional non-breaking spaces
{{}}	Literal "=" to avoid interpretation as syntax
{{*}}	Inserts a bold bullet
{{Nowrap}}	Keeps text on a single line
{{Key press}}	Format keyboard strokes

Disambiguation and redirection

Not to be confused with redirection pages which use #REDIRECT [[Page title]] on the first line.

Template	Use	Where to put it
{{Otheruses|description|other|link}}	Other uses of the term	Top
{{redirect|Location}}	Article is main use of a term, links to disambiguation	Top
{{redirect3|Location|Misc}}	Article is main use of a term, link to custom articles	Top
{{Confuse|page}}	Similarly named articles that might cause confusion	Top
{{WP|Article}}	Linking to a Wikipedia article inline	Inline; best limited to trivia; only use for distinct and unique terms
{{External|wp}}	Article has a version on Wikipedia	Top

Infoboxes

Template	Use
{{Infobox Item}}	Any item
{{Infobox Character}}	Characters

Categorical

Template	Use	Where to put it
{{Disambig}}	See Tesseract:Disambiguation	Bottom
{{Disputed}}	Article with factual information that is contested	Top
{{Future}}	Unreleased content; see Tesseract:Future content	Top
{{Current}}	Article is undergoing constant change due to dynamic or constantly changing nature	Top
{{Dialogue}}	Article is a dialogue page	Top

Requests

Template	Use	Where to put it
{{D|Reason}}	Article needs immediate deletion (use for spam or actor articles)	Top
{{Rfd}}	Creating a deletion request	Top
{{Rfm|Other article}}	Creating a merge request	Top
{{Rfs|Other article}}	Creating a split request	Top

Talk: namespace

Template
{{Talkheader}}
{{Unsigned|User|Time}}
{{Previous rfd}}
{{Archive list}}
{{Archive}}

Template: namespace

Template	Use
{{Navbox}}	Main navbox creating template
{{ctg}}	List of categories for a navbox
{{Template only}}	Used for category exclusively for templates
{{Mainonly}}	Include content only when on namespace; mostly for categories
{{Documentation}}	Used on /doc pages; see Tesseract:Template policy#Documentation
{{Invokes}}	Place on /doc pages of templates that use Lua; see Tesseract:Lua
{{}}	Literal "=" to avoid interpretation as syntax
{{*}}	Inserts a bold bullet
{{PreloadPage}}	Put on templates that have a preload available

Module: namespace

Templates are used on /doc for module documentation and to link modules that are loaded or required from within the module code.

Template	Use
{{No documentation}}	Used to mark that the module is missing documentation
{{Documentation}}	Used to mark that a module has documentation
{{Invokes}}	Use for modules that are invoked from a template
{{Helper module}}	Use for modules that contain functions useful to other modules, and documents them. See Template:Helper module for more info.
{{Require}}	Use to link to other modules that require or are required by this module. See Template:Require for more info.
{{Data}}	Use to link to other modules that load this module or are loaded by this module. See Template:Data for more info.

File: namespace

Template	Use
{{JPG}}	jpeg files of content
{{Trans}}	Images that need background removed
{{Working on Trans}}	Use when working on a file's transparency
{{Transl}}	Images that need background removed from translucent subjects
{{Retake image|reason}}	Catch all for retaking images
{{Retake audio|reason}}	Audio files that need retaking

User: namespace

Many different userboxes are available for placement on a user's page. See Tesseract:Userboxes for a listing.

User talk: namespace

Template	Use
{{Archive list}}	List of previous discussion archives
{{Archive}}	Archived page (not required)

Notices

Note that all of these templates should be substituted with subst:.

Welcoming and policy

Template	Use
{{Subst:Welcome}}	New users; please note this is mostly automated
{{Subst:Welcome IP}}	Helpful unregistered users
{{Subst:DDD}}	Removal of discussion; see Tesseract:Don't delete discussions
{{Subst:Amerspell}}	User made changes from American English to any other spelling variant; see TS:STYLE#SPELLING
{{Subst:Amerfloor}}	User made changes from American floor numbers to any other variant; see TS:FLOOR
{{Subst:Deu}}	User made changes to another user's page without permission; see Tesseract:Don't edit userpages
{{Subst:Duplicate}}	User uploaded a duplicate image
{{Subst:Imgname}}	User uploaded a file with a non-compliant name
{{subst:NoPP}}	User uploaded a personal-use file; see TS:NOT#HOST

Disruption and vandalism notices

Template	Use
{{Subst:No Vandal}}	Warning to not vandalise
{{Subst:Warn1}}	Warning for small test edits
{{Subst:Warn2}}	Warning for minor or first time intentional disruption
{{Subst:Warn3}}	Final warning for disruptive editing
{{Subst:Pov1}}	User inserted biased information; minor, first time, good-faithed
{{Subst:Pov2}}	User inserted biased information; repetitive, disruptive
{{Subst:Error1}}	User inserted incorrect information; good-faithed, first time
{{Subst:Error2}}	User inserted incorrect information; repetitive, disruptive
{{Subst:3RR}}	User is disruptively undoing changes; see Tesseract:Three-revert rule
{{Subst:Ownership}}	User is taking credit for edits or information directly in an article; see Tesseract:Ownership
{{subst:NoFanon}}	User made changes based on personal headcanon or speculation; see TS:NOT#CRYSTAL
{{Subst:UTP}}	User is disrespectful or insulting; see Tesseract:Civility

Help/Tesseract Namespace

Template	Use	Where to put it
{{Incomplete|Reason}}	Page is missing vital information	Top
{{Obsolete|Reason}}	Page is outdated or has been replaced by newer methods	Top
{{Stub}}	The page only contains basic information and there is more vital information to add	Bottom
{{Construction}}	The page is undergoing major changes, but not necessarily in progress	Top
{{Main|article}}	Section has a relevant page	Section header
{{Otheruses|description|other|link}}	Other uses of the term or similar term	Top
{{Warning}}	Display a warning message	Inline

See also

• Tesseract:Template policy/Personal templates