Wikipedia:Template messages

This page lists existing templates which you may find useful. (A more comprehensive category system may be viewed at Category:Wikipedia templates.) For information on what templates are and how to use them, please see Template namespace.

If you cannot find the template you need, you can request it on Requested templates. For help on creating templates, see Help:Template, or contact a user who has identified themselves as an adept template coder.

To see the templates and how they are implemented, click on the bold links at the top of the cell which lists the templates of interest to you.

In order to maintain consistent design of templates there has been significant discussion about a variety of templates at Template standardisation.

Article-related namespace
''Please list navigational templates (as, for example, between pages relating to a specific topic) at Navigational templates or at the appropriate WikiProject page. See also Article series.''

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Non article-related namespace
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Related pages for specific types of templates

 * /Main page and alternatives/ – For templates used on one of the Wikipedia's Main Pages.
 * 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.
 * WikiProject Tree of Life/taxobox usage lists templates for building taxonomical infoboxes (taxoboxes) for biological classification of living things and explains their usage. The boxes also contain conservation status templates.
 * 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.
 * WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types is the full listing of stub types. There are thousands of stub templates and associated categories. The creation and organization of stub types is being addressed by the WikiProject Stub sorting. The guidelines for template creation are found at 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.
 * The MediaWiki namespace controls interface messages for internal system use, and can only be modified by administrators.
 * Spoiler warning for a detailed explanation about how and when to use spoiler warning templates.
 * Userboxes are user information boxes designed for user pages.
 * WikiProject user warnings to create a complete, standardised set of user warning templates with full documentation and help pages.
 * Category:Internationalisation maintenance templates. Templates noting a particular national or regional viewpoint of an article, and asking for a worldwide view. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Countering systemic bias for some template banner examples compiled in one place.

Wiki templates
The wiki templates are powerful tools for editing Wikipedia articles. A "wiki template" is a kind of sub-template, and the "Wikipedia Edit Language" uses the notation  for the sub-template reference.

Technical note: "Wiki template references" are embedded on the "Wikipedia Edit Language", as a web template embedded language, using the open   and close   hooks, for enclose the wiki template language syntax, where valid names and valid instructions can be used, like template reference, as , and conditions, as.