User:Quietbritishjim/Useful templates

Article tags
See WP:Template messages/Cleanup, especially Section 6.13.2 (inline verifiability tags).

Template link
tl will produce a template link, like that one, whereas will do the same in monospaced font. will also show further piped arguments, as used below.

Collapse
Collapse a lot of material, e.g. a proof, or a proposed new section on a talk page. Use then

Stuff goes here.

No wrap
Use to stop its contents from breaking.

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Redirect
Not technically a template, but still useful to know: #REDIRECT Page name

Anchor
Use, then later link to  display label .

Diff and OldId
Use to produce, and  to produce.

Signing unsigned talk posts
The template can be used for unsigned posts. It's best to subst it, as in  to give — Preceding unsigned comment added by Quietbritishjim (talk • contribs) 11:15, 1 June 2005 (UTC)

Talkback
Use the template. Add a new section to their page and use the below (including the five tildes literally).

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Math
If using Wiki markup (rather than LaTeX in a  tag), use the  template to format it in a serif font and stop it from wrapping. E.g. comes out as $f(x)=e^{x}$, as opposed to f(x)=ex. The 1= is needed to avoid the equals sign in the formula being interpreted as part of the template syntax.