User blog:Face Monster/Face Monster's Guide to Templates

Now that I've explained the Source Editor, let's talk about templates! The Help page states that "A template is a special type of page that has been designed so its content can be included in other pages.". In simple words, by creating a page in the Template namespace, you can include the page's content on every other page just by writing its name in curly brackets. This is how we handle navigation boxes, copyright boxes, and infoboxes, which are also templates.

Templates list
Here, I'll describe some of this wiki's templates. Do note that what I write here applies to the Source Editor.

General templates
clear

''Clears space below things like images, pictures and tables. For example, by putting this under an infobox, you'll make the page's sections appear below the infobox, not beside it.''

''A nice template, but unfortunately it is unused here. Do note that you should write the pages' titles without brackets. Second page name is optional.''

''This is how you put a link of a main page for a section. Do note that you should write the page's title without brackets.''

parameter1

t

''This is how you put a link for a template. It also allows you to write the template's parameters (up to twenty), and displays them in angle brackets.''

This is how you make a scrollbox.

''Previously known as "nihongo". Used for Japanese texts on the wiki.''

''Some Japanese terms have special readings unrelated to how they are written. The special reading is written with kana. Often used with "translation", like "" ''

col-begin col-2 1 2 col-2 3 4 col-end Results in:

1 2

3 4

Article management templates
Use it to notify admins and moderators about a page or file that has to be deleted.

disambiguation

Use it at the top of disambiguation pages.

stub

''Use it on pages that don't have much info. Some articles are short because the information on their subjects was not revealed — these are not stubs.''

Forum templates
Use it when you want to post another site's content on the Forum.

Userboxes (User page only)
''The general template for userboxes. You can change the background colors with "bg1=" and "bg2=", and font colors with "color1=" and "color2=" (write the hex color codes after the equals sign). You can put an image on the left side of the userbox by writing " " instead of "1".''

Userbox/Anonymous Group Userbox/Stop ACTA

Userbox/Windows XP user Userbox/Windows Vista user Userbox/Windows 7 user Userbox/Windows 8 user Userbox/Windows 10 user Userbox/Linux user Userbox/Ubuntu user

Userbox/Internet Explorer user Userbox/Mozilla Firefox user Userbox/Opera user Userbox/Google Chrome user Userbox/Safari user Userbox/Yandex Browser user

Userbox/PC player Userbox/Xbox player Userbox/Xbox 360 player Userbox/Xbox One player Userbox/PlayStation Portable player Userbox/PlayStation player Userbox/PlayStation 2 player Userbox/PlayStation 3 player Userbox/PlayStation 4 player Userbox/PlayStation Vita player

Copyright templates
Most files here should be copyrighted with "ASCopyright". If you took an official image from dustloop or any other site, it's still "ASCopyright". Dustloop Wiki is not a Wikimedia project, don't use this template for files you upload from there. If you don't know the file's copyright status, don't add nothing, use the "No license" template. Add the "User Page Image" template to every image that you upload for use only on your User page.

ASCopyright

CC-BY-SA

Cc-by-sa-3.0

Dustloop Image

FCC

Fairuse

From Wikimedia

No license

OCopyright

Other free

PD

Permission

Self

TVCopyright

User Page Image

Navigation boxes
Navigation/Albums

Navigation/Characters

Navigation/Episodes

Navigation/Games

Navigation/Light novels

Navigation/Manga

Navigation/Modes

Navigation/Songs

Navigation/Stages

Infoboxes
Every infobox page has a list with all parameters of that infobox, so I won't list them here. When you're adding an image, write only it's name with file format, without "File:" and others things.

Blue Infobox/Character

The character infobox.

Dark Blue Infobox/Game

The game infobox.

Green Infobox/Album

The music album infobox.

Green Infobox/Music

The song infobox.

Orange Infobox/Racial Group

<font color="#DC143C">The species infobox.

Pink Infobox/Anime

<font color="#DC143C">The anime infobox.

Pink Infobox/Episode

<font color="#DC143C">The anime episode infobox.

Pink Infobox/Manga

<font color="#DC143C">The manga infobox.

Purple Infobox/Area

<font color="#DC143C">The stage infobox.

Purple Infobox/Location

<font color="#DC143C">The location infobox.

Purple Infobox/User

<font color="#DC143C">The user infobox.

To add an icon for your main/sub/"to learn" character, add it like a normal file, but link it to the character's page, like " ". Full list of icons is available here.

Red Infobox/Unit

<font color="#DC143C">The Sankishin infobox.

Red Infobox/Weapon

<font color="#DC143C">The weapon infobox.

Move list templates
Add an image with " ".

Afterword
These are definitely not all templates, and I haven't even touched the speech bubbles, but that should be enough for proper editing on the wiki. As always, if you have any questions, you can ask them here or on my message wall.