Elite Dangerous Wiki:Template index

This index is adapted from Wikipedia. Examples and linked guidance may describe its processes; check that each template and its instructions apply here before using it.

This page provides an index of templates used within Elite Dangerous Wiki, many of which convey messages; they are grouped into topic-specific headings. For information on what templates are and how to use them, see Help:Template.

For navigation templates rather than notices, see navigation templates. For stub templates (used to flag articles as incomplete and needing significant expansion), see stub types on Wikipedia. For some examples of message templates, see Project:Template index/Examples. For examples of combined message boxes, see combined message boxes.

Using this page

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 you cannot find the template you need, browse all local templates or ask for help on the relevant template talk page. See the template guide for local examples and advice.

You can also browse the local template directory.

Can improvements be made easily to a page?

Before placing cleanup templates on a page, it is worthwhile to cast a critical eye over the page to determine whether you can make the improvements easily, thus removing the need for a tag, avoiding double-handling, and improving the page more quickly.

Search

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You can also search in the subpages of the index:

Mobile device:

To search on a mobile device, switch to Desktop mode to use the search boxes above. Alternatively, you can directly access advanced search options for Templates here ("Search in" field set to "Template" namespace).

Article-related namespace

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

General Disambiguation and redirection Section Footnotes and references Timing-related Title-related Character/symbol notes Expansion requests Disambiguation introductory lines Miscellaneous	Cleanup Tag consolidation General cleanup Copy editing Cleanup of specific subjects Fiction Inline with article text Style of writing Structure, formatting and sections Introduction Potentially unwanted content Context and detail Off-topic Expand and add Expert needed Time-sensitive Contradiction and confusion Content forks Importance and notability Neutrality and factual accuracy Verifiability and sources Categories Images Lists Wiki tech Infobox needed Infobox cleanup needed	Compact tables of contents (TOC) Non-category pages Alphabetical lists Category pages Alphabetical lists Numeric lists	Deletion, discussion, speedy Deletion tools Articles (AfD) Categories (CfD) Files (FfD) Miscellany (MfD) Redirects (RfD) Templates (TfD) Discussion pages Speedy deletion tools
Disputes Autobiography Contradictory Controversial Factual accuracy Neutrality Notability Original research Possible neologisms Suspected hoax Unencyclopedic Verifiability	Formatting Division boxes Hide/show boxes Image frames Multiple columns	Links Internal links (articles, namespaces and categories) Templates German titles External links (databases and websites, etc.) Film and television (IMDb, YouTube, etc.) Games (board and video games, etc.) Geography (locations and maps) Literature (books, etc.) Music Religion Wikis (sister projects, etc.) Miscellanea (science and the internet, etc.)	Lists Dynamic lists Incomplete lists Subject or topic lists Disputed content/length
Maintenance Articles requiring significant attention and other issues General attention needed ISSN issues Lack of geopolitical balance Categorization issues Copyright violations Protected articles, pages and images	Merging To be placed on top of the pages or sections which require merging.	Moving To be used for, during, and after proposing a move on Wikipedia:Requested moves#Requesting controversial and potentially controversial moves.	Redirect pages To be placed below the redirect tag, separated by a blank line.
Section Templates that are section-specific.	Sources, citations, references Requesting sources and verification General sources Citations of generic sources Citations of specific sources (GFDL, public domain, U.S. government, etc.) Footnotes and links	Splitting To be placed on top the pages or sections which require splitting.	Standard boxes Main page and alternatives Calendars Diagrams Game and puzzle layouts Grids Periodic table
Translation Translation-related cleanup and expansion.	Timing-related During active editing sessions Work in progress Over multiple days Current events	Wikimedia sister projects MediaWiki Meta-Wiki Simple Wikibooks Wikimedia Commons Wikinews Wikiquote Wikisource Wikispecies Wikiversity Wiktionary

Non article-related namespace

These templates are for specific namespaces other than the main/article namespace.

Category namespace Births in years Books in years Deaths in years Works in years Categorization of people: Subjective category disclaimer Disputed categorisation Category headers	File namespace General Categorization Copy to Wikimedia Commons Creative Commons Deletion Featured content Format and quality Free image / Semi-free image usage GNU/GFDL images Government copyrights (UK, Canada, Poland, etc.) Non-free (copyrighted) images Public domain images	Talk namespaces General Archiving Biography Comments Discussion thread tags Expansion requests FAQ Featured and good articles Free images Peer review To do lists Translation requests WikiProject notices	Template namespace Template documentation High-use and intricate Template talk page messages
User namespace General Languages (Babel) Licensing Open tasks Sockpuppet, blocked, talk page and inactive user alerts User sandboxes Userboxes Wikipedia Awards / Barnstars	User talk namespace Multi-level warning templates Single-level warning templates Behavior in articles Behavior towards editors Blatant vandalism Blocks Foreign-language contributors General disruptive editing Inserting factual inaccuracies and/or libel Meta-templates Miscellanea Promotions of objects or ideologies (also spam) Unaccepted practices, unilateral action against policies or guidelines Welcome templates	Project namespace Policies and guidelines Essays and related Humor Maintenance Proposals and disputes Village pump WikiProjects	WikiProject banners For Elite Dangerous Wiki namespace. WikiProject banners WikiProject meta templates Banner shells

Related pages for specific types of templates

• Wikipedia:Welcoming committee/Welcome templates – templates to welcome and assist new IP or registered users who have made a number of constructive edits to Elite Dangerous Wiki.
• Wikipedia:Hatnote and Template:Hatnote templates – documentation for hatnotes.
• Template index: external links and Category:External link templates – templates for links to external sites.
• Wikipedia:Navigation template and Category:Navigational boxes – guidance essay and list.
• Wikipedia:Inline templates linking country articles – templates that render a flag icon and a wikilink to a country's article, using a list of country codes.
• Wikipedia:List of infoboxes and Category:Infobox templates – lists of templates for infoboxes, commonly used in articles to present certain summary or overview information about the subject. See Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Infoboxes for guidelines on usage.
  • Template:Taxobox/doc – template usage instructions for taxoboxes used for biological classification. See also Wikipedia:WikiProject Tree of Life for project overview.
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Countering systemic bias § Related cleanup templates and Category:Internationalisation maintenance templates – templates for noting a particular national or regional bias of an article and also for asking for a worldwide view.
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types – templates that are applied to stubs, from a WikiProject to list stub messages/templates.

WikiProjects and standardisation

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Templates – WikiProject for template standardisation.
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Infoboxes
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Inline Templates – earlier WikiProject for template standardisation.
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Succession Box Standardization
• Wikipedia:WikiProject User warnings – WikiProject that aims to create a complete, standardised set of user warning templates, with full documentation and help pages.
• Wikipedia:Template standardisation – current and historical attempts
• Wikipedia:Deprecated and orphaned templates – historical reference

See also

• All subpages for this page
• Local template directory – alphabetical list of templates on this wiki
• Help:Template – wiki template help page
• Special:Unusedtemplates – current list of all templates which are not transcluded onto another page
• Wikipedia:Database reports/Templates transcluded on the most pages – list of most used templates

Index of tags and messages

Adapted from Wikipedia; see its revision history for contributors. Content is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike licence.