Draft:Template index/General

"BTW:OTHERUSES" redirects here. For the guideline on hatnotes, see BattleTechWiki:Hatnote.

This page is about templates relating to article descriptions. For templates related to issues and disputes with articles, including NPOV, see BattleTechWiki:Template messages/Disputes. For templates related to formatting, see BattleTechWiki:Template index/Format. For templates related to cleanup, see BattleTechWiki:Template index/Cleanup.

Disambiguation and redirection

On disambiguation pages

For others, see

This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title I/O. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article (See mw:Manual:Interface/Disambiguationspage for more information).

For hatnote templates used to distinguish pages, see BattleTechWiki:Hatnote#Distinguish or Template:Hatnote templates documentation

What to type	What it produces	Where to put it
{{disambiguation}} links talk edit		Bottom of disambiguation pages.
{{disambiguation cleanup}} links talk edit		Bottom of disambiguation pages that need cleanup.

In introductory lines

The following templates should be substituted because they merely provide convenient ways to produce standard common phrases in running text (not, e.g., hatnotes or message boxes).

What to type	What it produces	Where to put it
{{subst:refer|Topic}}  links talk edit Redirects: {{disamb1}}, {{may refer to}}, ...	Topic may refer to:	Top
{{subst:disamb2}}  links talk edit Redirect: {{itref}}	Template:Disamb2	In line
{{subst:disamb3}}  links talk edit Redirect: {{theyref}}	Template:Disamb3	In line
{{subst:disambiguation name|Name}}  links talk edit Redirect: {{nameref}}	Template:Disambiguation name	Top
{{subst:disamb-term|term}}  links talk edit Redirect: {{termref}}	Template:Disamb-term	Top
{{subst:disamb-terms|term1|term2}}  links talk edit Redirect: {{termsref}}	Template:Disamb-terms	Top

Section

See also: BattleTechWiki:Template index/Section

What to type	What it makes	Where it goes
{{details|location}} links talk edit	For more details on this topic, see location.	Sections near top
{{further|location}} links talk edit	Further information: location	Sections near top
{{main|location}} links talk edit	Main article: location	Sections near top
{{main list|location}} links talk edit	For a more comprehensive list, see location.	Sections near top

Footnotes and references

What to type	What it makes	Where it goes
{{citation}} links talk edit	Makes a formatted citation for use with Harvard style reference links.	Articles notes or references
{{note|name}} links talk edit	^ The footnote also links back to the reference. ^ A # can be used at the beginning of the line to create a numbered list. Similarly, * creates a bullet.	Articles notes or references
{{note label|name|label|backlink}} links talk edit	a The footnote also links back to the reference. a A # can be used at the beginning of the line to create a numbered list. a b Similarly, * creates a bullet.	Articles notes or references
{{ref|name}} links talk edit	Makes reference links and footnotes that are numbered automatically.	Articles notes or references
{{ref label|name|label|backlink}} links talk edit	Makes reference links and footnotes with specific labels.	Articles notes or references

Timing-related messages

See also: Category:Temporal templates

What to type	What it makes	Where it goes
{{current}} links talk view	Use 'section' in 2nd parameter, if tagging a section. Template:Current	Top of articles or sections about current events
{{current person}} links talk view	Template:Current person	Article top
{{current related}} links talk view	Template:Current related	Article top
{{now}} links talk view	The current date and time is 26 April 2024 T 15:10 UTC.	Talk page top
{{recent death}} links talk view	Template:Recent death	Article top
{{update}} links talk view		Article or section top

Title-related messages

{{correct title|title=article}} links talk edit		Article top
{{lowercase title|article}} links talk edit	Decapitalises first letter of page title; for use in articles whose title is incorrectly capitalized due to technical restrictions, such as iPod.	Article top

Character/symbol notes

{{special characters}} links talk edit

Template:Special characters

Article top

Expansion requests

See also: Expansion requests in the talk namespace

What to type	What it makes	Where it goes
{{expand section}} {{expand section|text}} links talk view		Section top
{{Missing information|text}} links talk view	Template:Missing information	Article top