User:Sardanaphalus/Wikipedia templates

Is categorizing templates by style (bar-style, infobox, inline templates, list, navigational, title) really worthwhile?


 * Top-level categories to be orientated toward non-experienced/non-administrator users.
 * One top-level category – – to be door to administrative, maintenance, procedural etc templates for experienced/administrator users.


 * "Templates placed within articles that summarize information and/or provide links to related articles."



Wikipedia formatting templates ()

 * ''"Templates that assist the layout, formatting and presentation of Wikipedia pages."
 * Wikipedia convenience templates — "...for templates that were created so that large elements that would otherwise be placed in the article and make it difficult to edit (usually tables) may be removed from it."
 * Wikipedia sorting templates
 * Wikipedia sorting templates

?

 * "All template categories other than those in the top-level category, i.e. all categories containing templates for maintenance, administrative, etc use."
 * Wikipedia formatting templates


 * ''"Categories of templates awaiting or requiring action (usually by administrators), such as templates to be deleted, to be categorized, etc."
 * ''Meant to be merged into former, but tagging templates (which?) still set to use latter?
 * ''Merge?
 * ''Meant to be merged into former, but tagging templates (uncategorized?) still set to use latter?
 * –"Categories of templates needing cleanup..."
 * ''Merge?
 * ''Meant to be merged into former, but tagging templates (uncategorized?) still set to use latter?
 * –"Categories of templates needing cleanup..."
 * –"Categories of templates needing cleanup..."

Wikipedia administration templates ()

 * Wikipedia protection templates


 * "Templates used in maintaining Wikipedia pages, e.g. tagging them as requiring [refs, cleanup, etc?]."?
 * Wikipedia maintenance [navigation/navbox] templates? — ''vert and horiz templates giving links to policies, guidelines, fixing-Wikipedia projects, ...
 * Wikipedia category maintenance templates
 * Wikipedia citation and verifiability maintenance templates
 * Wikipedia copyright maintenance templates
 * Wikipedia image maintenance templates
 * Wikipedia internationalisation maintenance templates
 * Wikipedia language maintenance templates
 * Wikipedia link maintenance templates?
 * (merge subcategories?:)
 * Wikipedia internal link maintenance templates
 * Wikipedia external link maintenance templates
 * Wikipedia name and title maintenance templates
 * Wikipedia cleanup templates — hatnotes/tags
 * Wikipedia coherency templates — e.g. Template:Ambiguous link; Buzzword; Confusing; Obsure; etc.
 * Wikipedia request templates — cleanup requests on talkpages


 * "Templates used within Wikipedia procedures, such as featured-article nomination, archiving talkpages, ..."
 * Wikipedia archiving templates
 * Wikipedia articles for creation templates
 * Wikipedia deletion templates
 * Merge?
 * Wikipedia dispute templates
 * Wikipedia page-manipulation templates?:
 * (merge subcategories?:)
 * Wikipedia page-merging templates
 * Wikipedia page-splitting maintenance templates ''(to "Wikipedia maintenance templates"?)
 * Wikipedia page-splitting maintenance templates ''(to "Wikipedia maintenance templates"?)


 * Wikipedia renamed-user redirection templates
 * Wikipedia username changing and usurpation templates
 * Wikipedia username changing and usurpation templates

Wikipedia hatnote templates?·Wikipedia article tagging templates?

 * Wikipedia disambiguation and redirection templates — Template:For; Redirect; Dablink; etc.
 * Wikipedia neutrality templates
 * Wikipedia notability and importance templates
 * Wikipedia time-related templates
 * Wikipedia time and date maintenance templates (to "Wikipedia maintenance templates"?)
 * Wikipedia transwiki templates
 * Wikipedia under-construction templates
 * Wikipedia under-construction templates


 * Wikipedia WikiProject templates?
 * Wikipedia Wikisource templates?

Not maintenance or procedural or formatting?:
 * — templates used within other templates
 * Wikipedia to-do list templates –for To-do lists on article talkpages; not maintenance, or...

Not tagging templates?:
 * Wikipedia page-section templates

 (too general?)