Index of templates used by Wikipedia
This page provides anindex oftemplates used within Wikipedia, many of which conveymessages ; they are grouped into topic-specific headings. For information on what templates are, and how the template namespace is intended to be used, seeWP:Template namespace . For information on template use and development, seeHelp:Template . For the project team looking after templates on Wikipedia, seeWP:WikiProject Templates .
For navigation templates rather than notices, seeWP:Navigation templates . For stub templates (used to flag articles as incomplete and needing significant expansion), seeWP:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types . For some examples of message templates, seeWP:Template index/Examples . For examples of combined message boxes, seeWP:Template index/Cleanup/Verifiability and sources § Combined message boxes .
Thebold links at the top of each cell lead to detailed pages which describe the templates in that section in detail and explain 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, butnot listed in the table below.
If you still cannot find the template you need, you can request it onWikipedia:Requested templates . For help on creating templates, seeHelp:Template or contact a user who has identified themself as anadept template coder . Note that in order to maintain consistent design of templates, there have been significant discussions about a variety of templates at bothTemplate talk:Ambox andWikipedia talk:Talk page templates .
A more comprehensive category system may also be viewed atCategory:Wikipedia templates .
Before placing cleanup templates on a page, it is worthwhile to cast acritical eye over the page to determine whether you can make the improvements easily, thus removing the need for a tag, avoiding double-handling, and improving the page more quickly.
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Please listnavigational templates (as, for example, between pages relating to a specific topic) atWikipedia:Navigation template or at the appropriateWikiProject page.
Autobiography Contradictory Controversial Factual accuracy Neutrality Notability Original research Possible neologisms Suspected hoax Unencyclopedic Verifiability Division boxes Hide/show boxes Image frames Multiple columns Dynamic lists Incomplete lists Subject or topic lists Disputed content/length To be placed on top of the pages or sections which require merging. To be placed below the redirect tag, separated by a blank line. Templates that are section-specific. To be placed on top the pages or sections which require splitting. Calendars Court Decisions Diagrams Game and Puzzle layouts Grids Periodic Table Translation-related cleanup and expansion.
These templates are for specificnamespaces other than the main/article namespace.
Births in years Books in years Deaths in years Works in years Categorization of people:Subjective category disclaimer Disputed categorisation Category headers General Categorization Copy to Wikimedia Commons Creative Commons Deletion Featured content Format and quality Free image / Semi-free image usage GNU/GFDL images Government copyrights (UK, Canada, Poland, etc.) Non-free (copyrighted) images Public domain images General Archiving Biography Comments Discussion thread tags Expansion requests FAQ Featured and good articles Free images Peer review To do lists Translation requests WikiProject notices Template documentation High-use and intricate Template talk page messages Multi-level warning templates Single-level warning templates Behavior in articles Behavior towards editors Blatant vandalism Blocks Foreign-language contributors General disruptive editing Inserting factual inaccuracies and/or libel Meta-templates Miscellanea Promotions of objects or ideologies (also spam) Unaccepted practices, unilateral action against policies or guidelines Welcome templates Policies and guidelines Essays and related Humor Maintenance Proposals and disputes Village pump WikiProjects For Wikipedia namespace.
WikiProject banners WikiProject meta templates Banner shells
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Inline cleanup tags
Attribution Clarity Miscellaneous Neutrality Precision
Time-sensitivity Verifiability
Dubious Bare URLs Incomplete or broken citation Missing or problematic reference
Wording General advice
Content (?)
Conduct (?)
Deletion (?)
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Editing (?)
Project content (?)
WMF (?)
Adminitis Ain't no rules says a dog can't play basketball Akin's Laws of Article Writing Alternatives to edit warring ANI flu Anti-Wikipedian Anti-Wikipedianism Articlecountitis Asshole John rule Assume bad faith Assume faith Assume good wraith Assume stupidity Assume that everyone's assuming good faith, assuming that you are assuming good faith Avoid using the preview button Avoid using wikilinks Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense Barnstaritis Before they were notable Be the fun police BOLD, revert, revert, revert cycle Boston Tea Party Butterfly effect CaPiTaLiZaTiOn MuCh? Case against LLM-generated articles Complete bollocks Counting forks Counting juntas Crap Delete the main page Diffusing conflict Don't stuff beans up your nose Don't-give-a-fuckism Don't abbreviate "Wikipedia" as "Wiki"! Don't delete the main page Editcountitis Edits Per Day Editsummarisis Editing under the influence Embrace Stop Signs Emerson Fart Five Fs of Wikipedia Seven Ages of Editor, by Will E. Spear-Shake Go ahead, vandalize How many Wikipedians does it take to change a lightbulb? How to get away with UPE How to put up a straight pole by pushing it at an angle How to vandalize correctly How to win a citation war If you have a pulse Ignore all essays Ignore all user warnings Ignore every single rule Is that even an essay? Keep beating the horse List of really, really, really stupid article ideas that you really, really, really should not create Mess with the templates My local pond Newcomers are delicious, so go ahead and bite them Legal vandalism List of jokes about Wikipedia LTTAUTMAOK No climbing the Reichstag dressed as Spider-Man No episcopal threats No one cares about your garage band No one really cares No, really No self attacks Notability is not eternal Oops Defense Play the game Please be a giant dick, so we can ban you Please bite the newbies Please do not murder the newcomers Pledge of Tranquility Project S.C.R.A.M. R-e-s-p-e-c-t Requests for medication Requirements for adminship Rouge admin Rouge editor Sarcasm is really helpful Sausages for tasting Spaling Muich? Template madness The Night Before Wikimas The first rule of Wikipedia The Five Pillars of Untruth Things that should not be surprising The WikiBible Watchlistitis We are deletionist! Why isBFDI on Wikipedia? Why you shouldn't write articles with ChatGPT, according to ChatGPT Wikipedia is an MMORPG WTF? OMG! TMD TLA. ARG! Yes, falsely Yes legal threats Yes personal attacks You don't have to be mad to work here, but You should not write meaningless lists
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