SeptemWiki:Style Guide/Templates

The judicious use of templates will make it easier for SeptemWiki editors to write clear, consistent articles. This guide contains information on templates which editors should know about and use appropriately.

Syntax

Main article: Help:Templates

Templates are embedded in your article using the template syntax described in the Help:Templates page. For each template described in this page, examples are given.

Subtypes

If a template with a lot of different optional parameters, like Template:Ambox, gets frequently used in one particular way, such as to mark stub articles, then we create a template which fills out a lot of the parameters for you, like Template:Stub. That way, instead of having to enter something like this on every stub page:

{{ambox
| name  = Stub
| type  = content
| image = [[File:Empire arms.png|40px]]
| text = ''This SeptemWiki article is a stub. Help us out by [{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|action=edit}} expanding it].
| category = Articles to be expanded
}}

we can just use this:

{{stub}}

This process can subdivide further, and further. The Stub template itself has several subtypes, which produce different looking stubs, with different icons and text.

Banners

Banners are nice boxes which run across the width of your article. Some common ones are the Stub template:

{{stub}}

which yields:

In general, banners are produced using the "Article Message Box" template, fully documented at Template:Ambox.