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When editing Wikipedia regularly, it's often nice to have a references to some commonly used maintenance templates, user warnings, and other highly used templates. Everything is presented in one long page to make it easier to be found via your browser's find feature which can typically be accessed via the Ctrl+F shortcut key. Below is a summary by me, hopefully others might find it helpful. Being a Wikipedia page, you are free to make constructive edits.
Maintenance templates
editMaintenance templates are templates that are added to articles, talk pages, and various other pages in order to notify readers of potential problems. Remember that it's ALWAYS better to fix issues wherever possible instead of slapping some template for others to come across. Also remember to use the most specific template possible and don't tab bomb the page.
Tag consolidation
editToo many tags at the top of the article take up a substantial amount of space. When that happens you should consider wrapping it in the {{multiple issues}} template.
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{{multiple issues|{{Issue 1}}{{Issue 2}}{{Issue 3}}...}}}} |
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Cleanup
editGeneral cleanup
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{{Cleanup|date=September 2024}} {{Cleanup|reason=some specific reason goes here|date=September 2024}} |
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{{cleanup AfD}} |
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{{Cleanup section|date=September 2024}} {{Cleanup section|reason=why the remainder of this article needs cleanup}} |
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{{Cleanup-rewrite|Reason for rewrite|article or section}} {{Cleanup-rewrite|2=section}} {{Cleanup-rewrite}} |
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Specific cleanup
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{{Cleanup Congress Bio}} See #Biography |
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{{CIA}} |
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{{USRD-wrongdir}} |
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{{Cleanup-book|date=September 2024}} |
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{{cleanup-school}} |
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{{cleanup-film|date=September 2024}} |
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{{game guide|date=September 2024}} |
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{{Cleanup-university}} {{Cleanup-university|section}} {{Cleanup-university|disambiguation page}} |
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{{metricate}} See #Math |
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{{Local|date=September 2024}} {{Local|date=September 2024}} |
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Fiction
editSyntax | Example | ||
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{{fiction}} |
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{{Plot|date=September 2024}} {{Plot|date=September 2024|section}} |
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{{All plot|date=September 2024}} {{All plot|text|date=September 2024}} {{All plot|section|date=September 2024}} |
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{{More plot|date=September 2024}} |
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{{No plot|date=September 2024}} |
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{{in-universe|date=September 2024}} |
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Copy editing
editSyntax | Example | ||
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{{Copy edit|for=|date=September 2024}} |
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{{Copy edit-section|for=|date=September 2024}} |
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Todo ...
editSyntax | Example |
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Biography
editTo add:
- {{Bioguide}}
- {{CongBio}}
- {{CongLinks}}
- {{Ni-bioguide}}
Math
editFrom Template:Metricate
Functions
edit- {{Addition}}
- {{Elementary arithmetic}}
- {{Precision}}
- {{Precision1}}
- {{Value}}
- {{Bioguide}}
Foreign Language Related
editTranslation
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{{Cleanup-translation}} {{Cleanup-translation|Language}} |
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{{Translation WIP|ArticleName|FromLanguage|FromLanguageShortCode}} |
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{{Not English|language|article or section|listed=yes/no}} |
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{{Expand XXXXXXXXXX|XXXXXXXX title|date=September 2024}} XXXXXXXXXX = {{Expand Afrikaans}} , {{Expand Albanian}} , {{Expand Amharic}} , {{Expand Arabic}} , {{Expand Aragonese}} , {{Expand Armenian}} , {{Expand Asturian}} , {{Expand Azerbaijani}} , {{Expand Basque}} , {{Expand Bavarian}} , {{Expand Belarusian}} , {{Expand Bengali}} , {{Expand Bishnupriya Manipuri}} , {{Expand Bosnian}} , {{Expand Breton}} , {{Expand Bulgarian}} , {{Expand Burmese}} , {{Expand Cantonese}} , {{Expand Catalan}} , {{Expand Cebuano}} , {{Expand Chinese}} , {{Expand Colognian}} , {{Expand Corsican}} , {{Expand Crimean Tatar}} , {{Expand Croatian}} , {{Expand Czech}} , {{Expand Danish}} , {{Expand Dutch}} , {{Expand Egyptian Arabic}} , {{Expand Esperanto}} , {{Expand Estonian}} , {{Expand warning}} , {{Expand Faroese}} , {{Expand Finnish}} , {{Expand French}} , {{Expand Galician}} , {{Expand Georgian}} , {{Expand German}} , {{Expand Greek}} , {{Expand Haitian Creole}} , {{Expand Hawaiian}} , {{Expand Hebrew}} , {{Expand Hindi}} , {{Expand Hungarian}} , {{Expand Icelandic}} , {{Expand Ido}} , {{Expand Indonesian}} , {{Expand Irish}} , {{Expand Italian}} , {{Expand Japanese}} , {{Expand Javanese}} , {{Expand Kannada}} , {{Expand Kazakh}} , {{Expand Khmer}} , {{Expand Korean}} , {{Expand Kurdish}} , {{Expand Latin}} , {{Expand Latvian}} , {{Expand Lithuanian}} , {{Expand Lombard}} , {{Expand Luxembourgish}} , {{Expand Macedonian}} , {{Expand Malagasy}} , {{Expand Malay}} , {{Expand Malayalam}} , {{Expand Maltese}} , {{Expand Maori}} , {{Expand Marathi}} , {{Expand Mongolian}} , {{Expand Neapolitan}} , {{Expand Norwegian}} , {{Expand Norwegian (Nynorsk)}} , {{Expand Ossetian}} , {{Expand Papiamento}} , {{Expand Persian}} , {{Expand Polish}} , {{Expand Portuguese}} , {{Expand Quechua}} , {{Expand Romanian}} , {{Expand Russian}} , {{Expand Samoan}} , {{Expand Samogitian}} , {{Expand Sardinian}} , {{Expand Serbian}} , {{Expand Serbo-Croatian}} , {{Expand Sicilian}} , {{Expand Sinhalese}} , {{Expand Slovak}} , {{Expand Slovene}} , {{Expand Sorani}} , {{Expand Spanish}} , {{Expand Swahili}} , {{Expand Swedish}} , {{Expand Tagalog}} , {{Expand Tajik}} , {{Expand Tamil}} , {{Expand Tatar}} , {{Expand Telugu}} , {{Expand Testlish}} , {{Expand Thai}} , {{Expand Tibetan}} , {{Expand Tongan}} , {{Expand Turkish}} , {{Expand Ukrainian}} , {{Expand Urdu}} , {{Expand Uzbek}} , {{Expand Vietnamese}} , {{Expand Volapük}} , {{Expand Võro}} , {{Expand Walloon}} , {{Expand Welsh}} , {{Expand West Frisian}} , {{Expand Yiddish}} , {{Expand Belarusian (Taraškievica)}} |
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{{Rough translation|language}} |
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{{Proofreader needed|original_title|original_language_code}} |
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{{translated page|SourceLanguageCode|SourcePageTitle|version=version_num|insertversion=version_num|section=name}} |
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Inlined Translation
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{{TranslatePassage}} |
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{{whose translation}} |
[whose translation?] | ||
{{not English-inline}} |
[needs translation] |
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Tables of contents
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__NOTOC__ |
hides the TOC |
__FORCETOC__ |
forces the TOC to show |
{{Compact ToC|center=yes|seealso=yes|refs=yes|further=yes}} |
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{{alphanumeric TOC|primary=false}} |
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{{CompactTOCprefix|prefix=@}} |
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{{TOC US states|before=|DC=|PR=|UST=|after=|seealso=|refs=|extlinks=}} |
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{{Category TOC|align=|top=|numerals=|uppercase=|lowercase=}} |
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{{Large category TOC}} |
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{{Category IP TOC}} |
To add
editempty section
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