Wikipedia talk:Template index/General

Note moved from main page:

Template:reqimage - NOTE: Louisisthebest_007 19:43, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC) made a new template for wikipedia...but I don't know how to make tables >.<...if this is good, can someone add it for me?

Done FT2 22:09, Nov 10, 2004 (UTC)

request for Examples template?

It seems a common request would be to add illustrative examples. I find a template for "Expandsection" which is related but vague; but if there is a more proper template for requesting an "example", it isn't cross referenced in a way that is quick to locate. I recommend either creating such a template, or providing more pointers to it (specifically using the word "example", so it can be found by search). DKEdwards 16:39, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Relocation of templates

Background - Some templates relate to article issues not article information, but were in "General Templates". Because of this, wiki-ists with article disputes often were unaware and used disputed tags when there may have been a more appropriate tag elsewhere.

Put the templates that deal with "article issues" on the same page as the templates that deal with "article disputes". People looking for a way to say "something needs fixing on an article" will probably want to see these all together.

Left templates to do with page descriptions rather than page issues in General templates.

A big leap but I trust approved of by others. Note that "Template messages:Disputes" provbably needs renaming "Template messages:Article issues and disputes".

Hopefully this will increase awareness of tags which tdo not signidfy dispute, and reduce divisive "NPOV tagging" disputes.

Moved to "article issues":

attention, cleanup, contradict, hawaiian, Limitedgeographicscope, all 'merge' templates, POV check, reqimage, split, Translation, Undecided, Wrongtitle, Wrongtitlecat

Kept in "general":

current, disambig, Expansion, Free software, In Wikipedia, lipsum, subst:mnl?, otheruses, otherplaces, subst:ref <N>, solution, SpecialChars, spoiler, wikicode

FT2 22:45, Nov 10, 2004 (UTC)

Invitation templates

What about a new template like:

This article is about a living person. He/she is invited to tell us more about himself/herself.

But, don't take this all too seriously.

This page

Has anyone noticed that all the edit links are broken in the table? Is this intentional? — Xiong (talk) 04:07, 2005 Mar 31 (UTC)

Template:Lookfrom

Template:Lookfrom needs to be put somewhere. I don't do tables! --For One World 19:19, 17 December 2005 (UTC) (This message moved from project page by --Ezeu 21:53, 17 December 2005 (UTC))

Redirect2?

In a couple of cases now I've wanted a template that said "X redirects here. For Y, see Z." (currently, for The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, ""The Lord of the Rings (film)" redirects here. For the animated film directed by Ralph Bakhshi, see The Lord of the Rings (1978 film).") {{Otheruses4}} contains similar wording but doesn't mention redirection, and {{Redirect}} points to a disambiguation page, which might be overkill if (as in this case) there is just one alternative. Would there be any reason not to create such a template? Hairy Dude 20:19, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Aha. Looks like {{Redirect}} does the job. Hairy Dude 17:31, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

Disambig People

Is there a template for a disambig. page for several people who share the same name? I ran into this situation recently and just used the general template, but think a customized one would be better. Ckamaeleon 11:48, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

Discussion of this is going on, or perhaps was just completed, at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages)#Changing disambig tag. Chris the speller 17:53, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

Outdated ref and note tags

Should the deprecated {{ref}} and {{note}} tags be removed or struck from the table in favour of a direction to {{cite}} tags? <ref> tags are the norm now. MyNameIsNotBob 11:06, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Expansion Request Locations

Shouldn't expansion request templates be placed in the article page itself as opposed to the talk page? The instructions below indicate that the talk page is where the tag should be placed; however, doing so makes the "talk" link within the template invalid.--P Todd 02:24, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

Request Template: Information is Mecurial

I'd like to see a template I can use to warn the user that a reference (like radio station formats) is in a constant state of flux and, while it was accurate at one time, the user may want to verify the information with another source. (And edit the information if they are inclined. Any thoughts? Something like Template:Mercurial 'bitchen' ric 13:18, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

Cool. I figured it out. I've added Template:Mercurial and Template:Mercurial-section to this page. If this is redundant, please let me know the proper template to use. 'bitchen' ric 15:18, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

Changes in these templates

I've noticed all of these templates have recently gone from being indented and italicized (to set them apart from the article text) to looking exactly like the introduction of the article. What's the deal with the changes? (I must say I disapprove.) Robert K S 22:42, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

It looks like a group of users are attempting to change how these templates are displayed (i.e., with CSS rather than Wiki markup). Work in progress, I guess. I hope it looks better soon. Robert K S 22:46, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

They're fixed. Thanks. Robert K S 10:39, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Two new templates

I made two new templates to help disambiguation: {{See Wiktionary}} and {{otheruses5}}, see "What's link here" to have some examples of their use. 16@r 13:05, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

For2 for sections?

I just used {{For2}} in a section in an article. This page says such disambig templates are to be used on top of article pages, though. Should we change that, at least for some of the templates? Xiner (talk, email) 16:11, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

Proposal for a new template

Hi. I had the idea for a template counting down to a particular event. But I don't know how to write it and where to propose it. Can anyone help? --81.215.81.19 04:16, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Out of date information

Is there a template for 'this page is out of date'? Randomly browsing I came upon this page which clearly contains out of date info FSharpMajor 12:53, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

maybe this one ? {{out of date}} 16@r 13:13, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Doh - thanks. Didn't see that one anywhere on the templates list. FSharpMajor 07:43, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Realeased spelling error

I can't quite find if there is a single source for this spelling error, but it seems to be a popular misspelling on wikipedia. Realeased instead of Released. I spotted it embedded in the results of the Otheruses2 template for one example, seen appropriately on the page for The_Gremlins. jmv 07:41, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

{{future book}}

I would normally write this at Template talk:Future book, but it's never been edited before and I doubt I'd get a quick response. Is there a reason why this template includes the sentence "It may contain information of a speculative nature and the content may change dramatically as the product release approaches and more information becomes available"? Speculation is obviously not allowed at Wikipedia, so is this just kind of left over from copying from other, similar, templates? --Fbv65edel / ☑t / ☛c || 02:40, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

subpages

These template message lists are getting too long. They should be split up into even more subpages. See Wikipedia_talk:Template_messages#subpages for main discussion -Eep² 16:00, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Disambiguation location

Some disambiguation pages are long. In such cases and even when they are short enough to see the whole page in one screen I think it would make sense to put the {{disamb}} at the TOP of the page instead of the bottom. This would be useful because the "Note" would be seen more often, making a disamb link more likely to be changed by editors to a more accurate disambiguated form. Can we change this at this point? I would like to change the table on the main page accordingly.—Red Baron 19:02, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

Beta software

Shouldn't there be a template for beta software, not just future software, by saying something like "This article is about software currently in development. Information about it is subject to change."? Is there such a template? Althepal (talk) 17:10, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

I agree that there should be a beta software software template. This would be especially useful for Office Live Workspace.

Current war template

I added the current war template because it is not mentioned anywhere. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.118.68.193 (talk) 19:28, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

problem with the pipe symbol

{{Pipe in title|article}} used in Wikipedia:Template_messages/General#Title-related_messages, but the | in the text displayed messes it up. Bud0011 (talk) 05:49, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

Current|section

Under "Timing-related messages", I see this:
(I've added bold for emphasis)

What to type = {{Current}}, What it makes = This article documents a current event ...

What to type = {{Current}}, What it makes = This section documents a current event ...

I think it should probably look like this:
(Again with my bold for emphasis)

What to type = {{Current}}, What it makes = This article documents a current event ...

What to type = {{Current|section}}, What it makes = This section documents a current event ...

Could somebody fix this please. (I don't understand the Tlrow template enough to fix it myself.) Mitch Ames (talk) 00:58, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

Please Help

I can't find a template that says the article needs expansion (for very small articles, e.g. an article that has only 2 lines of text). I appreciate any help. GreyWinterOwl (talk) 11:24, 23 November 2013 (UTC)