Template talk:Icon/Archive 1

Edit Req
I've added fac, flc & aa options in the sandbox. Could the template be updated. Thanks. -- WOSlinker (talk) 18:58, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
 * ✅ Happy‑melon 19:32, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

I've added options for Featured topic candidate & Good topic candidate in the sandbox. Could the template be updated. Thanks. -- WOSlinker (talk) 13:18, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
 * ✅. &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 14:30, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

A-Class icons
Can the following icons for A-Class review be added: |acn|acc = A candidate.svg                   | A-Class article candidate |noac    = Symbol unsupport A vote.svg       | Failed A-Class article candidate |dac     = Symbol unsupport A vote.svg       | Demoted A-Class article Cheers! PC78 (talk) 14:46, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
 * ✅. Can you hurry up and pass an RfA please?  Happy‑melon 17:39, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
 * But... but... how else would I keep you admins busy if I could do all this stuff myself? :D PC78 (talk) 17:44, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Maybe he's secretly waiting for you to nominate him... =O ;) 「ダイノ ガイ 千 ？！」(Dinoguy1000) 17:49, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
 * We tried that, it didn't work... but we're slowly wearing him down... we'll drag him through it eventually  Happy‑melon 11:34, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
 * He claims not to have a need for the tools to do the things he wants to do on Wikipedia. Given the number of protected edit requests that we have to deal with this is clearly false. I think he's just a big chicken, really. &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 14:48, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

Reassessment
Can there be an icon added for reassessments, both Good and Featured? I'm not sure if there is an accepted image for these, but WP:VG uses File:Searchtool.svg. Thanks, MrKIA11 (talk) 14:44, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
 * What would the parameters be? GAR and FAR? &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 16:13, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes. MrKIA11 (talk) 16:55, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
 * &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 22:01, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks, MrKIA11 (talk) 12:35, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

If anyone feels up to playing with them, I think we could make some decent GAR/FAR icon images by crossing the above Searchtool.svg with File:GA candidate.svg/File:Cscr-candidate.svg (BTW, what does "cscr" have to do with the featured star? just curious...). Thoughts? 「 ダイノ ガイ 千？！ 」? · Talk⇒Dinoguy1000 03:21, 13 June 2009 (UTC)

Change DYK
Shouldn't the DYK icons be changed from File:Symbol question.svg to File:DYK questionmark icon.svg, as the previous is used in classicon for "unknown"? OrangeDog (talk • edits) 06:10, 27 September 2009 (UTC)
 * ✅ &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 07:16, 27 September 2009 (UTC)
 * I actually prefer the former. There are several other DYK-related matters that use that question symbol.  I've started a discussion on the topic at Wikipedia_talk:Did_you_know. Jclemens (talk) 18:21, 29 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Well, we could simply have both - switch DYK back to the old symbol and add the new symbol via DYK2. 「 ダイノ ガイ 千？！ 」? · Talk⇒Dinoguy1000 18:50, 29 September 2009 (UTC)
 * I expect that consensus will end up being something along those lines, actually, once people have had their say for input. Jclemens (talk) 19:01, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

Merge Template:Classicon into this template?
I think it's time to merge Template:Classicon into this template. From what I understand, this template was originally created to handle icons that were not considered to be "class" icons such as FA, GA, and B, but now that that is done, this template actually does the same things as Template:Classicon and MORE. So I think we should merge any minor functionality that Template:Classicon has that this one doesn't have, and then redirect it to here. I see little point in having to manage two very similar templates over time; merging the two just seems like the most logical path to me. It will also help dramatically in standardizing icons, especially if we then redirect templates such as FA-icon, GA-icon, and B-icon to here. Thoughts? Gary King ( talk ) 18:49, 6 October 2009 (UTC)


 * These two templates were deliberately chosen to be structured like this.  is a superset of, which is optimised for performance.  If the required icon is not available in  it 'shells out' to this template for a wider selection, while reducing the template argument size on pages where that is not necessary.  Of course, that optimisation is not an unavoidable necessity, but it is beneficial.  Merging the templates would double the size of the code called in both instances.
 * Why do you feel that "having to manage two very similar templates over time" will prove to be a burden? I don't see at all how merging them to one bigger, bulkier template will aid standardisation.  Deprecating the individual icon templates is an ongoing aim, but again I don't see at all how merging will help that.  Happy ‑ melon  19:01, 6 October 2009 (UTC)


 * That isn't made clear in any of the documentation that that is the purpose of keeping these templates separate. Also, exactly how much is the performance boost in leaving out a few icons? These icons are used primarily in WikiProject banners, which use way more ParserFunctions. Gary King  ( talk ) 19:11, 6 October 2009 (UTC)


 * I'm concerned enough about what will happen to pages like Vital articles when we merge in the individual icon templates, let alone if we'd doubled the size of first.  We might have to split it into three cascades (FA/A/GA/B/C/Stub/Start/???, extended classes, and then generic icons).  And they're used on reports like these, which already scrape the performance limits in some cases.   Happy ‑ melon  19:20, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

Size parameter?
Any thoughts on adding a second unnamed parameter to set image size? It would certainly make the template more versatile. PC78 (talk) 20:46, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

Incorrect icons & new additions
Multiple entries in this template use an incorrect icon and/or incorrect description. I've prepared all of the necessary changes in the sandbox, but here's a summary of what changes need to be made:

Revised descriptions:
 * Featured article reassessment → Featured article review
 * Demoted featured article → Former featured article
 * Featured article nominee → Featured article candidate
 * Failed featured article nominee → Failed featured article candidate
 * Featured list reassessment → Featured list removal candidate
 * Demoted featured list → Former featured list
 * Featured list nominee → Featured list candidate
 * Failed featured list nominee → Failed featured list candidate
 * Demoted good article → Delisted good article
 * Failed good article candidate → Failed good article nominee
 * Demoted featured topic → Former featured topic

Correct icons:
 * Featured article review → File:Cscr-star piece.png
 * Featured list removal candidate → File:Cscr-star piece.png
 * Former featured list → File:Cscr-featured-strike.svg
 * Failed featured list candidate → File:Cscr-former.svg
 * Good article reassessment → File:GA Candidate Neutral vote(ChaosNil).svg
 * Portal → File:Portal-puzzle.svg

In addition, I have added icons used for each of the following:
 * Featured article removal candidate
 * Valued picture
 * Valued picture candidate
 * Featured sound
 * Former featured sound
 * Featured sound candidate
 * Featured portal
 * Featured portal review
 * Former featured portal
 * Featured portal candidate
 * Featured topic removal candidate
 * Good topic removal candidate
 * B-Class review
 * Portal peer review
 * Quality image
 * Valued image

I've also added a tracking category for no; there's no such thing as "Unknown-Class articles", so I'd like to see where it's being used and what for, with a view to removing it in a future update. PC78 (talk) 20:46, 4 December 2009 (UTC)
 * ✅ &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 23:48, 4 December 2009 (UTC)


 * You've removed a few icons, like, , and so on. Those should be present. Headbomb {{{sup|ταλκ}}κοντριβς – WP Physics} 02:49, 5 December 2009 (UTC)
 * PC? &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 10:48, 5 December 2009 (UTC)
 * The fact you've used them in your above comment says otherwise. ;) I did remove a few from the doc, but only those that are primarily covered by classicon. and  weren't in the doc previously, though. PC78 (talk) 14:08, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

Book-class icon
Could someone add (right before the line starting with |#default ...) |book = Symbol book class2.svg        | Wikipedia Book Thanks. Headbomb {{{sup|ταλκ}}κοντριβς – WP Physics} 01:05, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
 * This image doesn't seem to be in use anywhere. Is there a link to a discussion about adding it I could have? Prodego  talk 01:10, 17 November 2009 (UTC)


 * The image is not in use because it was created only a few hours ago so it could be used. There's the Book-Class, this is the corresponding icon. Headbomb {{{sup|ταλκ}}κοντριβς – WP Physics} 01:15, 17 November 2009 (UTC)


 * Then you are going to need to show some sort of consensus for its use before it can be added to this template. Prodego  talk 01:19, 17 November 2009 (UTC)


 * That goes directly against WP:BOLD/WP:BUREAUCRACY. There's nothing controversial about adding class icons when new classes are created. There's no reason to NOT add this to the template, so let's add it. Headbomb {{{sup|ταλκ}}<sub style="margin-left:-4.0ex;">κοντριβς – WP Physics} 01:24, 17 November 2009 (UTC)


 * Everything else on the template relates to featured content (and a good portion of it is questionably useful). If you want to do something completely different then you are going to have to show a consensus that it is needed first. Prodego  talk 01:36, 17 November 2009 (UTC)


 * That is completely untrue, as demonstrated by the fact that all classes, not just those related to featured content, have icons., , and so on. There's no reason to NOT add the icon, so let's add it per WP:BOLD. Headbomb {{{sup|ταλκ}}<sub style="margin-left:-4.0ex;">κοντριβς – WP Physics} 01:39, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

Fine, have the icon. Its a project that is better suited for the entire website we have dedicated to books, its called Wikibooks - perhaps you have heard of it. But if you want an icon to put on identical pages that could not possibly be confused with anything else, by all means. Prodego talk 02:03, 17 November 2009 (UTC)


 * The relevant project for this is WikiProject Wikipedia-Books which is different in scope than Wikibooks. Wikipedia Books are collections of Wikipedia articles, not books written from scratch like on Wikibooks. Anyway thanks. Headbomb {{{sup|ταλκ}}<sub style="margin-left:-4.0ex;">κοντριβς – WP Physics} 02:10, 17 November 2009 (UTC)


 * The other icons in this series all relate to community-approved quality review processes. I do not see how one can realistically assess a "book" - as it is simply a collection of links to articles which may themselves be of wildly varying quality.  Oppose adding this icon to the template. Risker (talk) 22:45, 28 December 2009 (UTC)
 * It's already added, and it exists for the same reason the template-class icons exists (amongsts other non-assessment icons). Headbomb {{{sup|ταλκ}}<sub style="margin-left:-4.0ex;">κοντριβς – WP Physics} 00:12, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Adding option for promoted GA
Is is possible to add Image:Symbol star FA GA.svg for articles that have been promoted from GA to FA? Some people like to keep a list of their GAs, including ones that have moved on to higher status. –  VisionHolder  « talk »  23:37, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

Just dropping by to tell that  will generate a non-existent category, Category:Use of Unknown-Class icon. Specifically here. It can be seen in action at Template:Icon/doc. I guess it's solved by creating the cat, but since I don't know the structure of such cats I'll leave it for you, jonkerz♠ 10:20, 4 June 2010 (UTC)

Failed Valued Picture nomination
Is it possible to get a new icon that is a broken valued picture logo possibly in grey, much like the failed GAC icon is broken and in grey.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 01:12, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
 * So the icon for this doesn't yet exist, is that right? Jclemens (talk) 04:01, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

Edit request from Moxy, 15 September 2010 +Icon WikiProject
Add   With image being File:People icon.svg  as per the norm for the project temples -  and headers. Currently  renders to default of File:Symbol question.svg. ......... I see there is but i see  being used all over..Perhaps a redirect to one or the other ..but still image needs to be fixed....Thank you guys in advance.....

Moxy (talk) 05:27, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
 * ✅. Would you mind adding it to the documentation? &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 16:07, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
 * ...Thank you ..and update has been done...Moxy (talk) 09:14, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

Some requests
Featured article and featured list should use File:Cscr-featured.svg. Former featured list uses File:Cscr-featured-strike.svg while all the other former featured icons use File:Featured article star - cross.svg. I believe that File:Cscr-featured-strike.svg is the cleaner of the two images and should be the only one used.

Lastly, I recently created a template, Rating icon, to make an icon link to a specific page as a kind of shorthand to better keep track of the various promotions/discussions concerning an article. Could someone please add to the   parameter in this template, so that it serves the same purpose?

--Gyrobo (talk) 00:40, 5 November 2010 (UTC)

In the news icon
Recommend give the icon  :. Cheers. Haus Talk 20:08, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

Link
As the icons are decorative should we now have link= added as per WP:ALT? Keith D (talk) 13:03, 18 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Agreed. Does anyone see any reason to leave the link in? --Joy &#91;shallot&#93; (talk) 23:10, 19 October 2010 (UTC)


 * I thought link= was to link the image elsewhere, not provide an alt. Anyway, I came here wondering if a link= parameter could be added so that clicking on the icon could take you to a specific URL/file/article/etc.? Btw, I did see the }}|16px|link=]] in the source code, but when I tried using it, it didn't add a link at all. So perhaps it's being used as an alt= instead, which isn't clear to me. –  Kerαu noςco pia ◁ galaxies 22:44, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

Add sister project icons
In templates like Descent, we currently have to put those icons manually, which is both annoying, can lead to inconsistencies in size, etc... and means they usually aren't very friendly to people with visual impairments. We if we could add

|commons       = Commons-logo.svg                        | Commons page |wikiquote     = Wikiquote-logo.svg                      | Wikiquote page |wikiversity   = Wikiversity-logo.svg                    | Wikiversity page |wikibooks     = Wikibooks-logo.svg                      | Wikibooks page |wikisource    = Wikisource-logo.svg                     | Wikisource page |wiktionary    = Wiktionary-logo.svg                     | Wiktionary page |wikinews      = Wikinews-logo.svg                       | Wikinews page |wikispecies   = Wikispecies-logo.svg                    | Wikispecies page |meta          = Wikimedia Community Logo.svg            | Meta-wiki page

Right above the line that reads |#default      = Symbol question.svg

That would be great. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 16:48, 4 October 2011 (UTC)


 * ✅; let me know if there are any problems. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) - talk 17:39, 5 October 2011 (UTC)


 * and documentation updated. --Stemonitis (talk) 17:55, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Today's featured article
Does there exist an icon for WP:Today's Featured Article? I've noticed that templates like Template:ArticleHistory have a dedicated icon for In The News and Did You Know, but use the main Wikipedia logo for TFA. I'm going to add the Wikipedia logo to this template for TFAs, but I'll change it if an icon does exist. —Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 17:16, 28 July 2012 (UTC)

Edit request on 12 January 2013
please change the "16px" to, which will allow the size of the icon to be changed. for example, I would like to make the list of icons all the same height in the below section of Template:University of the Arts London using. thank you. note that this was suggested in this thread and there were no objections. Frietjes (talk) 16:31, 12 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Support - Having the Commons icon twice the size of the Category icon looks horrible. As a general point in my view all icons used in templates should be the same size for neatness.Rangoon11 (talk) 16:49, 12 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Agree all the same size woudls be nice - But we should really try an follow our guides on adding these to templates ,,,Moxy (talk) 17:01, 12 January 2013 (UTC)


 * WP:INFOBOXFLAG) - icons should only be inserted in infoboxes in those cases where they convey information in addition to the text.
 * WP:NAVBOX -  External links should not be included in navigation templates
 * Not sure how relevant either of those guidelines are. These are neither external links nor flags. These icons are very commonly used in WP templates and help to give a look of professionalism to the project. It would be good if they can be a consistent size however.Rangoon11 (talk) 17:22, 12 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Are you sure on this? First is our guide on Icons the other is for external links ...both are being discussed. Meaning size of the icon of an  external link to commons. To be clear Wikimedia sister projects are not internal en.wiki links Moxy (talk) 18:33, 12 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Links to Wikimedia sister projects can hardly be equated with links to third party sites. And these links are so widely used in navboxes as to be essentially standard. If you are proposing that they should all be removed - for what purpose and benefit I have no idea - then that will require very extensive discussion.Rangoon11 (talk) 21:06, 12 January 2013 (UTC)
 * You are 100 percent correct - there all over - its why we made the guide after a long debate, thus it is the consensus written in black and white with legible text for all to see.  If a link takes you away for en.wiki then its not internal (thus why it would have a  different domain prefix).  As for the benefit of no icons we are an encyclopedia - not a  children's web site with nice pretty graphics   -  all links should be treated equally (displayed neutrally and in the same manner) - no link should be highlighted/disgusted  with icons especially unwanted links that take you away from Wikipedia- like this one. Moxy (talk) 02:42, 13 January 2013 (UTC)
 * comment: as a parallel suggestion, we could also modify the "16px" to "16x16px", which would force the icons to not exceed 16px in height. this would be useful to make sure the icons aren't significantly taller than the text.  I think most of them are square, so this wouldn't change the majority, just the ones that aren't like the commons one. Frietjes (talk) 17:34, 12 January 2013 (UTC)


 * I am perfectly willing to enact the change of 16px to, as it has community consensus, but I will need some additional information as to exactly what needs to be changed. If someone could take the source code, copy it in his sandbox, make the necessary changes there and poke me back to review it before porting the code back here, that would be the ideal solution.   Salvidrim!    &#9993;  18:56, 21 January 2013 (UTC)

Let's not be so hasty. This appears to be misusing the template for something for which there's a better alternative. For a while I've been working to clean up the inline-style sisterlink templates so that they can be used for links such as in the example given: I've just put the last piece in place at sister/sandbox, which adds a  parameter that can be bubbled up through the likes of commonscat-inline to produce a small (12x12px) icon next to just the word "Commons" (sandbox: ). That's my preferred solution here; we shouldn't add unnecessary overrides to this template to try and shoehorn it into doing the same thing. Thoughts? Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) (talk) 15:11, 22 January 2013 (UTC)
 * changing the 16px to 16x16px would not preclude switching to a different template later, so there is no reason to not support this immediate change, before a second change happens. in fact, changing it to 16x16px here right now would be a good test to see if there are any issues with forcing the icon height to be no greater than 16px. Frietjes (talk) 16:22, 22 January 2013 (UTC)
 * I changed the commons image size to 16x16px, since that seems to be the issue that started this. If you still want the additional code, feel free to re-enable the edit request.  Thanks! Plastikspork <sub style="font-size: 60%">―Œ <sup style="margin-left:-3ex">(talk)  22:57, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

Today's Featured List
I see we have for featured articles; do we have something similar for the lists? - SchroCat (talk) 11:38, 3 April 2013 (UTC)
 * there is . Frietjes (talk) 18:19, 3 April 2013 (UTC)
 * No, that's for a featured list, not for Today's featured list. There's an icon for FA and TFA, so is there one for TFL? - SchroCat (talk) 19:12, 3 April 2013 (UTC)
 * TFA doesn't actually have an icon, it just uses the globe logo. It would be nice if someone more artistic than I could make something, maybe just the calendar page from On This Day with the FA star, or some image representing the main page. —Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 19:31, 3 April 2013 (UTC)
 * from your link, I see File:Cscr-featured.png for both WP:TFA and WP:TFL, so it seems there is no icon as indicated by Arctic.gnome. Frietjes (talk) 21:04, 3 April 2013 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure where you're looking, but gives, which is the globe logo AG was talking about. - SchroCat (talk) 21:08, 3 April 2013 (UTC)
 * (1) click on WP:TFA or WP:TFL, (2) see the icon used in the lead section, which apparently is not what you want. although = , you don't think that  should be the same as  . Frietjes (talk) 21:12, 3 April 2013 (UTC)
 * TFA and TFL should use the same icon, but there should be an icon for them both to use, similar to how In The News, Did You Know, and On This Day all have their own icons. Now, TFA and TFL both use the star on their project pages, and they both use the Wikipedia globe in Template:Article history (for example, see the top of Talk:Hamilton, Ontario). Is there any "WikiProject General Look and Feel of the Encyclopedia" page where we can ask someone to make a new icon? —Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 21:52, 3 April 2013 (UTC)

Edit request
Currently, a delisted Good Article has the same symbol as a failed GA nominee. Can this be changed to as this is the symbol in use if a GAN does not meet GA standards (see any review). Thanks-- Gilderien Chat&#124;List of good deeds 20:26, 26 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Just checking - which icon do you want to be changed to File:Symbol oppose vote.svg, the delisted Good Article icon or the failed Good Article nominee icon? — <span style="color: #194D00; font-family: Palatino, Times, serif">Mr. Stradivarius  ♪ talk ♪ 03:58, 27 July 2013 (UTC)
 * I wish for the failed GAN to be changed, as having both the same is confusing and this symbol is already in use - see User:Eric Corbett, User:Dr. Blofeld and others.-- Gilderien Chat&#124;List of good deeds 10:55, 27 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Ok, Yes check.svg Done. (I also fixed your signature.) — <span style="color: #194D00; font-family: Palatino, Times, serif">Mr. Stradivarius  ♪ talk ♪ 02:56, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

Edit request on 1 October 2013 &mdash; add Wikivoyage
Add Wikivoyage. |wikivoyage    =

Thanks. ···V ani s che nu 「mc/Talk」 17:05, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done -- Red rose64 (talk) 18:44, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
 * You are so quick! Thanks and regards. ···V ani s che nu 「mc/Talk」 19:55, 1 October 2013 (UTC)

Edit request - RE: Four Award
. Can we add an icon for the Four award? --ColonelHenry (talk) 16:58, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Like this: Four Award.svg --ColonelHenry (talk) 21:51, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
 * All of the other icons in this template have the link disabled. It would seem out of place to link just this one and not the others, and might confuse others who use the template. We could work around this by adding a page parameter to link the icon to, or by starting a new template which linked all its icons (if such a thing doesn't exist already). How does that sound to you? — <span style="color: #194D00; font-family: Palatino, Times, serif">Mr. Stradivarius  ♪ talk ♪ 06:06, 17 October 2013 (UTC)
 * - I only intended to ask that the image be turned into use for the icon template, I didn't ask for a link to be included. The misunderstanding likely arises that in my quickness to put the image here for reference, I copied the image off someone else's user page exactly as they had it, link and all. I didn't take the time to unlink it. I am not requesting it be linked, just that an icon be made for the image...so...Revision:

Just this:
 * Four Award.svg (or whatever size the icon image has to be...don't hold me to 16px). Sorry for the confusion.--ColonelHenry (talk) 13:11, 17 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Ok, Yes check.svg Done. You can now get the icon with . — <span style="color: #194D00; font-family: Palatino, Times, serif">Mr. Stradivarius  ♪ talk ♪ 13:34, 17 October 2013 (UTC)
 * - I appreciate your work on this. Thank you. --ColonelHenry (talk) 04:56, 24 October 2013 (UTC)

Protected edit request on 29 December 2013
Needing an admin to update this template or lower the protection level to TE so I can edit it to use to the sandbox which has been throughly tested on the testcases page so that this template is capable of being properly SUBST: into long list pages to reduce template inclusion size greatly. Thank you.

Technical 13 (talk) 17:21, 29 December 2013 (UTC)
 * I recommend doing instead of the noinclude hack. → Aza Toth 18:47, 29 December 2013 (UTC)


 * Using the research I did in another discussion on this same topic. The empty parameter actually has a larger footprint than the noinclude/includeonly "hack".  That is why I proposed it this way... Is there something else about this I do not know ? Technical 13 (talk) 19:21, 29 December 2013 (UTC)


 * Substitution has several drawbacks. Consider instead that if a template is used more than once without parameters then the result is cached and reused without reprocessing the template. I suggest we use that by making simple efficient templates without parameters, by replacing pipes by spaces to make the template name. For example, ga becomes icon ga, and pages using the former many times can replace it by the latter. If people want to keep the ability to make all changes in icon then icon ga could contain the code ga instead of the code it produces. Will somebody test the effect of these two possibilities? I'm not sure how reuse of template results is counted when template limits are computed. PrimeHunter (talk) 00:01, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
 * I have no objection to that right now. I'll spend some time day after tomorrow gathering some intel on that idea and come back. Technical 13 (talk) 01:28, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
 * A simple icon template reduces post-expand size by omitting #switch which doubles bytes of spantag/image links (or omit extra #if which triples bytes), but a shorter image file-name and omit span-tag are also large reductions. -Wikid77 15:49, 30 December 2013 (UTC)


 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: Sorry, it doesn't look like there's consensus for this edit at the moment. By the way, the efficiency of this template could be improved by using Lua with mw.loadData. mw.loadData only parses the data once per page rather than once per template call, which I think would make it well suited to this situation. I'll write the module in my sandbox now (should be very simple) so that we can run some tests on it. — <span style="color: #194D00; font-family: Palatino, Times, serif">Mr. Stradivarius  ♪ talk ♪ 11:19, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

I've now implemented this template in Lua at Module:User:Mr. Stradivarius/icon, and I've made it available for testing through icon/sandbox. I gave the current template and the Lua template a quick stress test in my sandbox, with 2394 calls to icon in this revision and 2394 calls to icon/sandbox in this revision. (There's nothing significant about 2394; I just chose it at random.) Using the Lua version gave quite a significant performance boost - the page was generated in 17.185 seconds, compared with 25.595 seconds for the current template. This isn't as much as I thought it might be - it turns out that in the Lua version most of the time is taken by generating the images themselves, with the Lua time usage being only 1.940 seconds. See below for the full breakdown. (Bear in mind that this is not all that scientific - this is just one parse of each page, which could have produced anomalous results for either test.)

<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap"> NewPP limit report Parsed by mw1052 CPU time usage: 22.321 seconds Real time usage: 24.025 seconds Preprocessor visited node count: 157018/1000000 Preprocessor generated node count: 43785/1500000 Post‐expand include size: 474432/2048000 bytes Template argument size: 9954/2048000 bytes Highest expansion depth: 4/40 Expensive parser function count: 0/500
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I think this is enough to justify switching this template to Lua, but it won't be a silver bullet to fix the problems reported on WP:VPT. Interestingly, this also means that templates like icon ga still wouldn't provide too much of a performance benefit, as they won't have any effect on the image processing time. Perhaps MediaWiki would process the icons quicker if we made specially resized versions for all the icons called by this template? I'm not well-acquainted enough with the MediaWiki backend to say whether this would actually make any difference, though. — <span style="color: #194D00; font-family: Palatino, Times, serif">Mr. Stradivarius  ♪ talk ♪ 13:08, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
 * The Lua {icon/sandbox} post-expand include size is still 291 bytes for "ga", and likely to kill large lists of icons+pagenames, compared to as only 172 bytes post-expand size. Lua version needs to handle uppercase "GA" or "Draft" or "DRAFT". -Wikid77 (talk) 15:37, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

Redesign for post-expand size not speed
The greatest problem has been the wp:post-expand include size, while the markup-based icons have displayed quickly at 270-per-second. Consider the recent size options:
 * – has 367 bytes post-expand size
 * – has 172 bytes post-expand size
 * [Lua] – has 291 bytes post-expand size
 * – would be 34 bytes with File:GAsym.svg

The next reduction will come with shorter file-name, as File:GAsym.svg versus File:Symbol_support_vote.svg, where each letter counts double in markup #switch (or #ifeq) and counts again when passed into table-formatting templates. -Wikid77 (talk) 15:37, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

Protected edit request on 8 April 2014
Please replace the instances of "16px" in this template with " " so that the variable size may be used to alter the size of the icon produced. Regards,

Sardanaphalus (talk) 10:46, 8 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done; please update the doc page. Jackmcbarn (talk) 18:56, 8 April 2014 (UTC)
 * restored 16x16px for commons icon per . Frietjes (talk) 01:46, 10 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Belated thanks from me – and documentation now updated. Sardanaphalus (talk) 15:43, 14 April 2014 (UTC)

edit request
Please add an option for to have a humor icon. (good for occasions such as today (April 1) -- 65.94.43.89 (talk) 07:00, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the template. -- Red rose64 (talk) 11:13, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

Start-class icons in the see also section
Is it standard to have start-class icons next to articles in the see also section? see, for example, [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lake_Iguaque&oldid=761109869 Lake Iguaque]. Frietjes (talk) 15:36, 21 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Nope, it also goes against MOS:ICONDECORATION and MOS:SELFREF. -- Red rose64 &#x1f339; (talk) 23:23, 21 January 2017 (UTC)

Featured portals icon
Now that the featured portals process has been marked as historical (per this RFC) and the symbol on FPOs has been changed to an small empty star, I believe a corresponding change here would be appropriate. —Bloom6132 (talk) 02:50, 27 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done Note that I only changed the main featured portal icon, not the candidate/review/former icons. – Train2104 (t • c) 03:43, 27 April 2017 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 19 August 2017
Could an icon for "Today's featured list" (TFL) be included? 1989 00:03, 19 August 2017 (UTC)
 * What icon? Cabayi (talk) 09:13, 19 August 2017 (UTC)
 * The same one used for TFA. -- 1989 20:21, 19 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Deactivated the edit request as there is not a live edit ready to be applied. Feel free to continue to sandbox and discuss - when ready to implement reactivate the edit request. —  xaosflux  Talk 15:21, 20 August 2017 (UTC)
 * I need to test this on a sandbox in order for this to get accepted? -- 1989 15:25, 20 August 2017 (UTC)
 * As the edit request template says, it should have a complete and specific description of the request, so that an editor unfamiliar with the subject matter could complete the requested edit immediately.. Most of this is driven by Module:Icon, do you have some code ready to copy and paste in?  Your request above looks like you are either asking someone else to write some, not that is ready to go. —  xaosflux  Talk 15:29, 20 August 2017 (UTC)
 * How about this?
 * -- 1989 15:32, 20 August 2017 (UTC)
 * reactivated, — xaosflux  Talk 16:23, 20 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done – Train2104 (t • c) 19:13, 21 August 2017 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 5 February 2018
Please add: needed = { image = "Symbol needed class.svg", tooltip = "Needed article", }, See also Template:Needed-Class. Iazyges  Consermonor   Opus meum  04:06, 5 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 07:46, 5 February 2018 (UTC)

Transwiki help
I want to use this template on bs.wiki with English names alongside local ones. However, I can't get an icon to show up. Here, on line 232, I set the local alias "kategorija" for "category", but when I try to use it here, it just returns the _DEFAULT entry. What am I doing wrong? – Srdjan m (talk) 15:48, 15 April 2018 (UTC)

Featured content icons
I noticed a recent change to the icons for featured content. In most places, including the top-right corners of articles, the icon in use is this: (this matches the first gallery icon below), but in some places it recently changed to this:  (this matches the second gallery icon below). There is a clear difference between the two when placed side-by-side. This would not be a problem, except the change has not been implemented across the board (see the table in Template:icon). The commons links for the files themselves are here: <Gallery mode=packed> File:Cscr-featured.svg File:Featured article star.svg In my opinion, there should be consistency with which featured icons are used. To that end, I believe the former icon above should replace the latter icon above, as the former looks better in icon form and because the majority of the derivative bronze star icons are based on that one. On that note, any derivative icons based on the former should replace the corresponding ones based on the latter, also. Jackdude 101 talk cont 14:37, 2 May 2018 (UTC)
 * You already brought this up at Village pump (technical). Please see WP:MULTI and WP:FORUMSHOP. -- Red rose64 &#x1f339; (talk) 21:46, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

Request for addition
Around two sections before this section named "Template-protected edit request on 5 February 2018", an addition was made to include the section "needed". But the section "needed" is not seen in documentation page. Should that be added?Adithyak1997 (talk) 17:14, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

Request for addition of icons for MediaWiki and The Wikimedia Foundation
There are currently no icons for Mediawiki and The Wikimedia Foundation. The closest thing available is probably File:MediaWiki-notext.svg and File:Wikimedia-logo.svg. How to create a new icon please? A suggestion is and. Kind regards, Vincent Mia Edie Verheyen (talk) 16:27, 17 July 2018 (UTC).

Creating "outline" icon
Template was added after the change was proposed. --DannyS712 (talk) 21:32, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

I would like to propose that an icon for "outlines" be created. Currently, the icon used is:. This image is the general image for wikipedia. Given the number of outlines on wikipedia, I believe that they should have their own icon (for example, for use in footers) The image is suggest using is seen below; it is used by both Wikiproject Outline and the Outline portal, as shown below: "File:Global thinking.svg" is the image name

The code I suggest using is "OUT" --DannyS712 (talk) 06:26, 23 September 2018 (UTC)
 * , where would this icon be used? Does the Outlines WikiProject support its use there? Enterprisey (talk!) 06:21, 25 September 2018 (UTC)
 * it could be used in navboxes, like the ones below. I don't know what the WikipProject believes, and don't know how I could find out (I'm fairly new). --DannyS712 (talk) 15:49, 25 September 2018 (UTC)


 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the template., you linked to the Outlines WikiProject when you included the template WikiProject Outlines above. The project's talk page is at WT:WPOUTLINE, please establish some consensus there. Cabayi (talk) 17:01, 25 September 2018 (UTC)
 * I have reopened this edit request, as I believe I have reach a weak consensus for adding the icon. See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Outlines. Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 19:16, 25 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks for working on that consensus. It's difficult to see how this change will do significant harm, so I have added this Outline icon in good faith. You can see the new icon at Template:Marvel Cinematic Universe, where I changed it from the default Wikipedia icon. – Jonesey95 (talk) 21:57, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

List of Wikipedia articles in each type
Where can I find the list of Wikipedia articles from each type? I got the list of featured articles but not from all types. Mytochondria (talk) 18:38, 22 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Try searching if you just need one -, , etc --DannyS712 (talk) 18:43, 22 February 2019 (UTC)

Change the portal icon
Always struck me as a poor design, especially at smaller sizes, e.g. There are issues with the shadowing, which hurts recognizability, and also of consistency with the other icons, e.g. (A-class) or  (Disambiguation) or  (Books). So I propose we replace this with something better, specifically, either &#32; Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 15:49, 17 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Portal:Physics
 * Symbol portal class.svg Portal:Physics
 * Symbol Portal 2.svg Portal:Physics

Icon for Vital articles
Just wondering do we have an inline icon for Vital articles, as I am recently try to find some vital articles to expand. See User:Blacktc/outlineOfPsychology Thanks. Curtis (talk) 10:49, 14 April 2019 (UTC)


 * , I added → . &#32; Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 15:53, 17 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Curtis (talk) 01:38, 18 April 2019 (UTC)

Table pages
Such as Table of years in LGBT rights. I think an icon for such pages would be nice.★Trekker (talk) 10:47, 28 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Are there many of these? -- Red rose64 &#x1f339; (talk) 13:38, 28 July 2019 (UTC)
 * That's a list. &#32; Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 15:01, 28 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Not sure how these things are defined. There are a couple of them from what I've seen.★Trekker (talk) 18:32, 28 July 2019 (UTC)
 * "A couple" is not nearly enough to justify a whole new class and the icon that goes with it. -- Red rose64 &#x1f339; (talk) 19:11, 28 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Ok then. Sorry for bringing up I guess.★Trekker (talk) 19:29, 28 July 2019 (UTC)

Missing icon
This template has virtually every icon imaginable, but not the draft icon. Could this be added? 5225C (talk &bull; contributions) 09:45, 16 July 2020 (UTC)
 * See Template:Class/icon. -- Red rose64 &#x1f339; (talk) 20:05, 16 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks. But regardless, this template has all the class icons as well, except for the draft class. Is there a particular reason for its exclusion? 5225C (talk &bull; contributions) 01:18, 17 July 2020 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 14 December 2020
The Wikiversity logo was updated in 2017 to File:Wikiversity logo 2017.svg, but this module still uses File:Wikiversity-logo.svg. Please replace image = "Wikiversity-logo.svg", with image = "Wikiversity logo 2017.svg",. Thanks. GreenComputer (talk) 02:59, 14 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done – Jonesey95 (talk) 04:35, 14 December 2020 (UTC)

Update to some class icons
The following class icons have been changed at Class/icon after a WP:VPR post which was archived at Village pump (proposals)/Archive 175. To keep icons consistent across the templates I am requesting that they be updated here. I have already made the changes at Module:Icon/data/sandbox and request that they are added.

The Change:
 * Non-Article Page: Symbol neutral vote.svg -> Symbol na class.svg (File:Symbol na class.svg)
 * Category: Folder Hexagonal Icon.svg -> Symbol category class.svg (File:Symbol category class.svg)
 * Media File Page: Video-x-generic.svg -> Symbol file class.svg (File:Symbol file class.svg)
 * Portal Page: Portal-puzzle.svg -> Symbol portal class.svg (File:Symbol portal class.svg)
 * Project Page: Symbol information vote.svg -> Symbol project class.svg (File:Symbol project class.svg)

Terasail &#91;✉&#93; 20:31, 7 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done Izno (talk) 23:04, 9 February 2021 (UTC)

Consistent capitalization
I think it would be nice for the items in the list to have the same capitalization used in other places on Wikipedia. For example:


 * Vital Article Vital article
 * Featured Article Candidate Featured article candidate
 * Featured Article Featured article

This is just for stylistic consistency. Somerandomuser (talk) 01:12, 13 March 2021 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 28 May 2021
Change to use Template:Ambox globe current red. This icon is more modern, and the template rotates the globe at certain times. Already used for Template:ITNbox Yeeno   (talk) 🍁 18:27, 28 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done for now: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the template. That definitely seems neither necessary nor desirable to me. Izno (talk) 01:35, 5 June 2021 (UTC)

Appearance in the Media Viewer
Does it make sense for those icons to appear in the media viewer? --Nachtbold (talk) 14:07, 30 July 2021 (UTC)
 * When scrolling through the Media Viewer, all these icons appear in the slideshow. That doesn't make sense and might even annoy some users. --Nachtbold (talk) 20:48, 21 August 2021 (UTC)
 * , indeed. I've stumbled upon File:Symbol category class.svg and File:Commons-logo.svg appearing in the Media Viewer due to them being used at the bottom of navboxes. Template:Sister-inline uses  to avoid this happening to the icons. Maybe this should also be implemented in Module:Icon.  what do you think? —⁠andrybak (talk) 07:57, 28 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Sounds like a good idea, and I've implemented it in Module:Icon/sandbox. The test cases are all looking good, and I have checked that the sandbox version of the icons do not show up in the media viewer. Unless anyone has any objections, I'll put this up live. — <span style="color: #194D00; font-family: Palatino, Times, serif">Mr. Stradivarius  ♪ talk ♪ 08:38, 28 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much! --Nachtbold (talk) 10:22, 28 August 2021 (UTC)
 * This is now up live. Let me know if you spot any issues with it. — <span style="color: #194D00; font-family: Palatino, Times, serif">Mr. Stradivarius  ♪ talk ♪ 05:21, 29 August 2021 (UTC)

Remove link?
Following up from 's point from 2009 (!), should we remove the image link here? The image files aren't what's important, and going to them (rather than the relevant pages) isn't the expected behavior from clicking on them. &#123;{u&#124; Sdkb  }&#125;  talk 00:27, 26 July 2021 (UTC)


 * There may be licencing issues with some images. See Template talk:Class/icon where not linking to the image has caused an ongoing licence discussion. Terasail [✉️] 00:42, 26 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Oh, ack, I had that in the back of my mind. Even if we can only delink some, that'd be nice. &#123;{u&#124; Sdkb  }&#125;  talk 00:45, 26 July 2021 (UTC)
 * I've added a  field to the data table at Module:Icon/data/sandbox. We can use that from the main module to suppress the link if the data module contains   for that icon. I set all the icons as , then went through and set images that are in the public domain as  . I might have missed some, so I welcome people to go through and check my work. After we have decided which images to suppress links for, then I can add the code to the main module that does the actual suppression. — <span style="color: #194D00; font-family: Palatino, Times, serif">Mr. Stradivarius  ♪ talk ♪ 09:28, 28 August 2021 (UTC)
 * @Mr. Stradivarius, thanks; looks good! I didn't realize the featured article star wasn't fully public domain—that seems like another reason to remake it, but that's a separate convo. &#123;{u&#124; Sdkb  }&#125;  talk 17:02, 28 August 2021 (UTC)
 * I have implemented this in Module:Icon/sandbox, and you can see the results at Template:Icon/testcases. Does this look like what you had in mind? — <span style="color: #194D00; font-family: Palatino, Times, serif">Mr. Stradivarius  ♪ talk ♪ 06:14, 29 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Looks fine to me! &#123;{u&#124; Sdkb  }&#125;  talk 07:07, 29 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Ok, this is now up live. Let me know if you spot any issues with it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mr. Stradivarius (talk • contribs) 08:14, 29 August 2021 (UTC)

Suggestion to improve quality of Icon/data
In the Icon/data module, you loop through a table into which you insert elements. In my personal wiki, this causes "element jumps". So some keywords are ignored when they are used. I solved this problem by using a second, initially empty table into which I inject all elements. And it is this table that I return. Hopefully this suggestion will be useful to you one day. Thanks for your job :) --KharMitch (talk) 13:07, 30 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Thank you for letting us know. You are completely right about this - Module:Icon/data adds elements to the data table while looping over it, the behaviour of which is undefined in the Lua spec. I have now fixed the issue. It seems that this wasn't a problem in practice for us due to the particular Lua binary that Wikimedia has in production, which is why no-one noticed the error until you pointed it out. — <span style="color: #194D00; font-family: Palatino, Times, serif">Mr. Stradivarius  ♪ talk ♪ 08:21, 29 August 2021 (UTC)

Two ideas
1) The Guild of Copy Editors has an icon and I'd like to display some of my GOCE copy edited articles on my user page. Could we possibly add the GOCE logo to this template? File:Writing_Magnifying.PNG. 2) Maybe it'd be a good idea to be able to feed custom files to the template? Such as. If you agree, consider adding that functionality. Thoughts? Thanks. – Novem Linguae (talk) 03:15, 13 May 2021 (UTC)
 * I've added the GOCE icon to the module:  &rarr; . I'm not sure adding a file parameter would be such a good idea, as the module would not be able to look up the tooltip text as it does currently, and in any case it is not too far off the manual image syntax:   &rarr; Writing_Magnifying.PNG. — <span style="color: #194D00; font-family: Palatino, Times, serif">Mr. Stradivarius  ♪ talk ♪ 12:54, 30 August 2021 (UTC)

Edit request: add cleanup icon
Requesting to add the broom icon at file:edit-clear.svg, which is generally recognised as standing for "cleanup work", to this template, as I've done in this sandbox edit.

This edit should be uncontroversial, unless I'm missing something: the stated purpose for this template is to allow an icon to be easily used inline on metapages or user pages - this icon would be useful on such pages in lists of articles to indicate either "cleanup work needs to be done on this article" or "this article has been cleaned up". The only cost is making the list of icons slightly longer, and I expect any editor would agree that this icon would be a useful enough addition to justify that small cost.

I myself am requesting this because I plan on using the icon in a template for user pages. Kind regards from  PJvanMill ) talk ( 21:08, 8 December 2021 (UTC)
 * ✅.  P.I. Ellsworth &numsp;- ed.  put'r there 16:41, 9 December 2021 (UTC)