Usage

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General syntax options for this template are as follows:

{{Featured topic box
| title = 
| lead = 
| view = 
| count = 
| image = 
| imagesize = 
| column1 = 
: 
: 
| column2 = 
: 
: 
| column3 = 
}}
  • title: name of the featured topic (used for the talk page link)
    Example: 2003 Atlantic hurricane season         for 2003 Atlantic hurricane season
  • lead: name of topic to be displayed in header bar, including any formating and links. Must not include any bold text. Should be the same as the topic title - can be piped if needs be.
    Example: {{classicon|FA}} [[2003 Atlantic hurricane season]]
  • view (optional): Link to the topic's page itself
  • count: number of articles in topic
    Example: 17
  • image (optional): name of image to be used, which must not be fair use. If omitted or blank, no image is used.
    Example: 2003 Atlantic hurricane season map.png         (see Image:2003 Atlantic hurricane season map.png)
  • imagesize (optional) size of any image in pixels. If omitted or blank, this will take the value 60 (if there is an image)
    Example: 55
    To make the height 60, like in most of the current boxes, divide length by height and multiply by 60.
  • column1, column2, column3: use these to list the articles in the topic using bulleted lists, with any formatting, links, and the FA/GA stars.
    Example:
    * {{icon|FL}} [[List of storms in the 2003 Atlantic hurricane season|List of storms]]
    * {{icon|GA}} [[Tropical Storm Ana (2003)|Tropical Storm Ana]]
    * {{icon|FA}} [[Hurricane Juan]]
    * {{icon|PR}} [[Hurricane Bob]]
    * — etc.

The colour scheme for this template uses the H90 header / accent colours at Wikipedia talk:Colours