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WikiProject Templates
Template messages (
navbox of )
For articles & article talk pages
General – disambiguation , redirection , section main article hatnotes ,
footnotes & references , time-related, title technical, special character notices, expansion requests
Citations (
category of ) – templates for citing various kinds of media
Cleanup (
navbox of inline ones ) – organized by topic: multi-issue combined boxes , copied & pasted content, general cleanup & rewrite , subject-specified cleanup , copyediting , writing style , structure , scope, unwanted content, bad text formatting, lacking context, excessive/lacking info or detail , topic deviation, lacking citation specifications, expert attention , time-related (different selection than General has), confusion , bad summary of corresponding main article in detail article, notability , neutrality , verifiability , categorization, images/media cleanup & requests, list cleanup, technical cleanup
Also has a bit of guidance on using cleanup tags at the top, and a breakdown of the cleanup backlog at the bottom
Deletion – article & talk page notices
Disputes – organized by intended placement: top of article or section, top of article, top of section, inline, talk page
Formatting – text columns ,
multiple images in one frame ,
hide/show content ,
keyboard keys ,
flat list
Hatnotes
Links – special ways of linking to specific things, both internal and external
internal (
category of ): to main articles, formatted on disambiguation pages, about German personal titles,
country flag & name
external (
category of ): pieces of media, geography, databases about media, Bible verses, other wikis & databases, etc.
Lists – status, issues, navigation
Maintenance – major edits in progress, new articles, protection status, copyright, certain specific article issues, categorization
Merging – suggested merging, merged, merged instead of deleted, suggested splitting
Moving – requested moves, category rename proposals, title cleanup, suggested split, suggested move to userspace
Sister projects – links to related content on other WMF wikis
Sources – multi-issue combined boxes, copied & pasted content, verifiability & sources for BLPs, issues with verifiability & sources , source search suggestions, notices of legitimate incorporation of third-party content, citations of specific sources
Standard boxes – calendars, diagram builders , unit converters, time converters, periodic table
Stub types
Talk: (
guideline about )
Translation – suggestions, requests, cleanup
Technical, non-article namespaces, inter-wiki linking
Deletion – discussion, file notices, suggestions to deleting admin
Formatting –
divbox , userbox container,
keyboard keys ,
flat list
Links – to templates, with tools
Moving – requested moves (incl. technical), category rename proposals, can be/will be/was copied to another wiki, file shadows Commons
Redirect (
navbox of ) – redirect reasons, talk page of, printworthiness, rcats, multi-rcat shell, category of, deprecated template redirect, category redirect, soft redirect
Sister projects – suggested/completed move/copy of content to other WMF wikis
By namespace:
Infoboxes (
list of ,
category of ,
WikiProject )
Navigation templates (navboxes & sidebars)
Most-transcluded templates ;
unused templates