BattleTechWiki:Template index

This page provides an index of templates used within BattleTechWiki, many of which convey messages; they are grouped into topic-specific headings. For information on what templates are, and how the template namespace is intended to be used, see BTW:Template namespace. For information on template use and development, see Help:Template. For the project team looking after templates on BattleTechWiki, see BattleTechWiki:WikiProject Templates.

For navigation templates rather than notices, see BattleTechWiki:Navigation template. For stub templates (used to flag articles as incomplete and needing significant expansion), see BattleTechWiki:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types. For examples of combined message boxes, see BattleTechWiki:Template index/Cleanup/Verifiability and sources § Combined message boxes.

Using this page

The bold 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, but not listed in the table below.

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

A more comprehensive category system may also be viewed at Category:Templates.

Can improvements be made easily to a page?

Before placing cleanup templates on a page, it is worthwhile to cast a critical eye over the page to determine whether or not you can make the improvements easily, thus eliminating the need for a tag.

Article-related namespace

Please list navigational templates (as, for example, between pages relating to a specific topic) at BattleTechWiki:Navigation template or at the appropriate WikiProject page.

General Disambiguation and redirection Section Footnotes and references Character/symbol notes Expansion requests Disambiguation introductory lines Miscellaneous	Cleanup Tag consolidation General cleanup Copy editing Inline with article text Structure, formatting and sections Introduction Context and detail Expand and add Expert needed Contradiction and confusion Importance and notability Neutrality Verifiability and sources Categories Images Lists	Compact tables of contents (TOC) Non-category pages Alphabetical lists Category pages Alphabetical lists Numeric lists	Deletion, discussion, speedy Deletion tools Articles (AfD) Categories (CfD) Files (FfD) Miscellany (MfD) Redirects (RfD) Stub types (SfD) Templates (TfD) Discussion pages Speedy deletion tools
Disputes Contradictory Neutrality Notability Verifiability	Formatting Division boxes Hide/show boxes Image frames Multiple columns	Links Internal links (articles, namespaces and categories) Templates External links	Lists Dynamic lists Incomplete lists Subject or topic lists Disputed content/length
Maintenance Articles requiring significant attention and other issues Articles undergoing major edits Categorization issues Copyright violations Protected articles, pages and images	Merging To be placed on top of the pages or sections which require merging.	Moving To be used for, during, and after proposing a move	Redirect pages To be placed below the redirect tag, separated by a blank line.
Section Templates that are section-specific.	Sources, citations, references General sources Citations of sources Footnotes and links	Splitting To be placed on top the pages or sections which require splitting.

Non article-related namespace

These templates are for specific namespaces other than the main/article namespace.

Category namespace Category headers	File namespace See also: BattleTechWiki:File copyright tags General Categorization Deletion Featured content Format and quality Free image / Semi-free image usage GNU/GFDL images Non-free (copyrighted) images Public domain images	Talk namespaces General Archiving Comments Discussion thread tags Featured and good articles Free images To do lists	Template namespace Template documentation Template talk page messages
User namespace General Open tasks Sockpuppet, blocked, talk page and inactive user alerts User sandboxes Userboxes BattleTechWiki Awards	User talk namespace Multi-level warning templates Single-level warning templates Behavior in articles Behavior towards editors Blatant vandalism Blocks General disruptive editing Meta-templates Welcome templates	Project namespaces Policies and guidelines Essays and related Humor Maintenance Proposals and disputes WikiProjects	WikiProject banners For BattleTechWiki namespace. WikiProject banners WikiProject meta templates Banner shells

Related pages for specific types of templates

• BattleTechWiki:Hatnote and Template:Hatnote templates – documentation for hatnotes.
• BattleTechWiki:Template index/Links § External links and Category:External link templates – templates for links to external sites.
• BattleTechWiki:Navigation template and Category:Navigational boxes – guidance essay and list.
• BattleTechWiki:List of infoboxes and Category:Infobox templates – lists of templates for infoboxes, commonly used in articles to present certain summary or overview information about the subject. See BattleTechWiki:Manual of Style/Infoboxes for guidelines on usage.

• BattleTechWiki:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types – templates that are applied to stubs, from a WikiProject to list stub messages/templates.

WikiProjects and standardisation

• BattleTechWiki:WikiProject Templates – WikiProject for template standardisation.
• BattleTechWiki:WikiProject Infoboxes
• BattleTechWiki:WikiProject Stub sorting

See also

• MediaWiki has documentation related to Templates
• all subpages of this page
• Help:Template – wiki template help page
• Information:MediaWiki namespace – one of the standard namespaces in the database structure of the MediaWiki software, on which BattleTechWiki runs
• Special:Unusedtemplates – current list of all templates which are not transcluded onto another page