ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ:Template messages

This page provides an index for a wide range of standard templates in use within Wikipedia. Whether you are providing a custom message or a pastel box or are flagging articles, adding tags, or adding templates, this page also gives an overview of what subjects are covered within each heading.

There are two main ways to use templates on articles: transclusion (also called "inclusion", and accomplished by using {{Template name}}), and subclusion (also called "substitution"). The former will include the content of {{Template Name}} on the fly whenever the article is loaded, while the latter will permanently insert the content of the template into the article. With substitution, even if the template content is modified at a later date, the article's content will not change. The common method for using template messages is transclusion, implemented by usage of a tag with the form {{template name}}, in whatever article or talk page one wants the template code/text to be shown. A less common usage is to implement an automatic one-time copying of a template's code/text to the location of a template tag; a method called substitution or subclusion, implemented simply by adding subst: as a prefix for the template name (as in {{subst:template name}}).

Substitution is the preferred method for permanent notices (i.e., no probability that it will change) because it is less confusing, and it even helps to lighten the load on the database. Substitution has the further advantage in that a template's content may be de-linked from any associated category or slightly modified to suit the circumstances, such as when the template is used on a talk page. Transclusion is preferred for displaying material that is normally updated (i.e., high probability that it will change), that way, all the places it appears are updated in a single operation.

The bold links at the top of each cell lead to detailed pages which describe the templates in that section in detail and explain how and when to use them.

If you cannot find the template you are looking for, please click on the section headers that seem most relevant, since there may be templates for a particular usage covered on the detailed pages, but not listed in the table below.

If, after searching, you still cannot find the template you need, you can request it on Wikipedia:Requested templates. For help on creating templates, see Help:Template or contact a user who has identified himself or herself as an adept template coder. Note that in order to maintain consistent design of templates, there have been significant discussions about a variety of templates at both Wikipedia talk:Article message boxes and Wikipedia talk:Talk page templates.

A more comprehensive category system may also be viewed at Category:Wikipedia templates.

Can improvements be made easily?

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Before placing templates on a page, it is worthwhile to cast a critical eye over the page to determine whether or not the improvements could be made easily, thus eliminating the need for a tag.

Article-related namespace

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Please list navigational templates (as, for example, between pages relating to a specific topic) at Wikipedia:Navigation templates or at the appropriate WikiProject page.






  • Deletion of:
    • Articles (AfD)
    • Categories (CfD)
    • Images and media (FfD)
    • Redirects (RfD)
    • Speedy deletion (D)
    • Stub types (SfD)
    • Templates (TfD)
  • Moving or Renaming (within Wikipedia or to other wikis)

  • Accuracy
  • Autobiography
  • Contradictory
  • Controversial
  • Neutrality
  • Notability
  • Original research
  • Suspected hoax
  • Unencyclopedic




  • Dynamic lists
  • Incomplete lists
  • Subject or topic lists
  • Disputed content/length

  • To be placed at the end of the same line as the redirect tag.

  • Calendars
  • Court Decisions
  • Diagrams
  • Game and Puzzle layouts
  • Grids
  • Periodic Table

  • Division boxes
  • Multiple columns
  • Image holders
  • Hide/show boxes

Non article-related namespace

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  • Policies and non-policies
  • Village Talk
  • WikiProjects
  • WP:Sandbox
  • WP:FAQ

  • Births in Years
  • Books in Years
  • Deaths in Years
  • More information
  • Categorization of people:
    • Subjective Category Disclaimer
    • Disputed categorisation


  • Single & Multi-Level Warning Templates
  • Experimenting & Vandalism Notices
  • Shared IP Notices
  • Spamming Notices
  • Three Revert Rule
  • User Talk Requests
  • Welcome Messages
  • Edit-summary request
  • Minor-edit reminder
  • Block notices
  • Wide range of other warnings and notices

  • Talk namespace
    • Featured articles (and candidates)
    • Expansion requests
    • Request Photo/Images
    • Comments
    • Discussion thread tags
    • Free Images
    • Translation requests
    • Peer review
    • To Do lists
  • WikiProject banners

  • Copyright status unknown or unverified
  • Creative commons licensed image
  • Fair use claimed
  • Free use image / Semi-free use image
  • Government copyrights (UK, Canada, Poland)
  • GNU/GFDL image
  • Images and media for deletion
  • Image categorization
  • Non-free (copyrighted) image
  • "not an orphan"
  • Public domain image
  • Screenshot

  • Template documentation
  • High-use and intricate
  • Template talk page messages
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