Wikipedia:Template messages/General

Note: This page contains details of templates relating to article descriptions.

Templates related to issues and disputes with articles, including NPOV, are listed under Template messages/Disputes.

Templates related to formatting are listed under Template messages/Format.

Templates related to Cleanup issues are listed under Template messages/Cleanup.

Disambiguation and redirection

On disambiguation pages

For others, see MediaWiki:Disambiguationspage. For hatnote templates used to distinguish pages, see Wikipedia:Hatnote#Distinguish or Template:Hatnote templates documentation

What to type	What it produces	Where to put it
{{disambiguation}} links talk view		Bottom of disambiguation pages.
{{disambiguation cleanup}} links talk view		Bottom of disambiguation pages that need cleanup.
{{geodis}} links talk view		Bottom of disambiguation pages consisting only of geographic locations.
{{hndis}} links talk view		Bottom of disambiguation pages whose title is a human name.
{{numberdis}} links talk view Redirect: {{numdab}}		Bottom of number-oriented
{{SIA}} links talk view		Bottom of list articles about a set of items of a specific type that share the same (or similar) name.
{{surname}} links talk view		Bottom of surname (last name) disambiguation pages.

In introductory lines

Note: ordinarily, these templates should be substituted.

What to type	What it produces	Where to put it
{{refer|Topic}} links talk view Redirects: {{disamb1}}, {{may refer to}}, ...	Topic may refer to:	Top
{{disamb2}} links talk view Redirect: {{itref}}	It may refer to:	In line
{{disamb3}} links talk view Redirect: {{theyref}}	They may refer to:	In line
{{disamb4|Topic|description}} links talk view Redirects: {{refers2}}, {{mayrefer2}}	Topic may refer to description:	Top
{{disambiguation name|Name}} links talk view Redirect: {{nameref}}	The name Name may refer to:	Top
{{disamb-name2|Topic|description}} links talk view Redirect: {{nameof}}	Topic is the name of description, including:	Top
{{disamb-term|term}} links talk view Redirect: {{termref}}	The term "term" may refer to:	Top
{{disamb-terms|term1|term2}} links talk view Redirect: {{termsref}}	The terms "term1" and "term2" may refer to:	Top

Section

See also: Wikipedia:Template messages/Section

What to type	What it makes	Where it goes
{{details|location}} links talk view	For more details on this topic, see location.	Sections near top
{{further|location}} links talk view	Further information: location	Sections near top
{{main|location}} links talk view	Main article: location	Sections near top
{{main list|location}} links talk view	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 view	Makes a formatted citation for use with Harvard style reference links.	Articles notes or references
{{Harvard citation|name|year}} links talk view Redirect: {{harv}}	Makes a Harvard style reference link.	Articles notes or references
{{note|name}} links talk view	^ 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 view	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 view	Makes reference links and footnotes that are numbered automatically.	Articles notes or references
{{ref label|name|label|backlink}} links talk view	Makes reference links and footnotes with specific labels.	Articles notes or references

Timing-related messages

See also: Wikipedia:Current event templates and Category:Temporal templates

What to type	What it makes	Where it goes
{{anachronism}} links talk edit	Use {{anachronism inline}} for use at exact examples.	Article or section top
{{current}} links talk edit	Use 'section' in 2nd parameter, if tagging a section.	Article top or section
{{current disaster}} links talk edit		Article top
{{current person}} links talk edit		Article top
{{current related}} links talk edit		Article top
{{current spaceflight}} links talk edit		Article top
{{current sport}} links talk edit		Article top
{{current sports transaction}} links talk edit		Article top
{{high traffic}} category links talk edit		Talk page top
{{now}} links talk edit	The current date and time is 16 December 2017 T 04:36 UTC.	Talk page top
{{recent death}} links talk edit		Article top
{{recentism}} links talk edit		Article top
{{update}} links talk edit		Article or section top

Title-related messages

{{correct title|title=article}} links talk view		Article top
{{lowercase title|article}} links talk view	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

{{IPA notice}} links talk view		Article top
{{special characters}} links talk view		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 edit		Section top
{{histinfo}} {{histinfo|text}} links talk edit		Talk page top