User talk:Cocoa Pops1

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Fun with templates
Hi, Cocoa Pops1! Thanks for your updates. As you have probably noticed, "under the hood" Wikipedia can be quite complicated, so I thought I would explain that those population citations are what we call a template (which is a shorthand way to write something long and complicated more quickly, especially when we need to write it a lot (and we write population citations a LOT!). Templates appear inside

The words at the start are the name of the template, so with

the name of the template is "Census 2016 AUS" and you can find any template by searching in the "Search box" by asking it to search for

Template:Census 2016 AUS

where you will be able to see the documentation explaining what the template is used for and how the template works. It will tell you what fields you can use. The fields in this example are "id", "name", "accessdate" etc. The fields have to be named exactly as in the documentation (although sometimes there are alternatives) and if you get the field name wrong, it is ignored. So that's why "accessdate" works and "access date" doesn't.

If you want to ask any questions or need any help, please feel free to ask me at my talk page or just write here. Kerry (talk) 08:15, 18 April 2018 (UTC)


 * By the way, I have just created two new articles for localities near Tannum Sands: Iveragh, Queensland and Foreshores, Queensland. Perhaps you could add population information to their lede (first) paragraph and to their infobox to practice your skills. Kerry (talk) 08:29, 18 April 2018 (UTC)