Wikipedia:Template index

This page provides an index of templates used within Wikipedia, many of which convey messages; they are grouped into topic-specific headings. For information on what templates are, and how the template namespace is intended to be used, see WP:Template namespace. For information on template use and development, see Help:Template. For the project team looking after templates on Wikipedia, see WP:WikiProject Templates.

For navigation templates rather than notices, see WP:Navigation templates. For stub templates (used to flag articles as incomplete and needing significant expansion), see WP:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types. For some examples of message templates, see WP:Template index/Examples. For examples of combined message boxes, see WP:Template index/Cleanup/Verifiability and sources § Combined message boxes.

Using this page
The bold links at the top of each cell lead to detailed pages which describe the templates in that section in detail and explain how and when to use them.

If you cannot find the template you are looking for, please click on the section headers that seem most relevant, since there may be templates for a particular usage covered on the detailed pages, but not listed in the table below.

If you still cannot find the template you need, you can request it on Requested templates. For help on creating templates, see Help:Template or contact a user who has identified themself as an adept template coder. Note that in order to maintain consistent design of templates, there have been significant discussions about a variety of templates at both Template talk:Ambox and Wikipedia talk:Talk page templates.

A more comprehensive category system may also be viewed at Category:Wikipedia templates.

Can improvements be made easily to a page?
Before placing cleanup templates on a page, it is worthwhile to cast a critical eye over the page to determine whether or not you can make the improvements easily, thus eliminating the need for a tag.

Search
As an alternative to using this index, you can search the Template namespace using the box below:

You can also search Wikipedia:Template messages in the box below:

Article-related namespace
Please list navigational templates (as, for example, between pages relating to a specific topic) at Navigation template or at the appropriate WikiProject page.

Non article-related namespace
These templates are for specific namespaces other than the main/article namespace.

Related pages for specific types of templates

 * Welcoming committee/Welcome templates – templates to welcome and assist new IP or registered users who have made a number of constructive edits to Wikipedia.
 * Template index/Main page and alternatives – templates used on the Main Page.
 * Hatnote and Template:Hatnote templates – documentation for hatnotes.
 * Wikipedia:Template index/Links § External links and Category:External link templates – templates for links to external sites.
 * Navigation template and Category:Navigational boxes – guidance essay and list.
 * Inline templates linking country articles – templates that render a flag icon and a wikilink to a country's article, using a list of country codes.
 * List of infoboxes and Category:Infobox templates – lists of templates for infoboxes, commonly used in articles to present certain summary or overview information about the subject. See Manual of Style/Infoboxes for guidelines on usage.
 * Template:Taxobox/doc – template usage instructions for taxoboxes used for biological classification. See also WikiProject Tree of Life for project overview.
 * Wikipedia:WikiProject Countering systemic bias § Related cleanup templates and Category:Internationalisation maintenance templates – templates for noting a particular national or regional bias of an article and also for asking for a worldwide view.
 * WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types – templates that are applied to stubs, from a WikiProject to list stub messages/templates.

WikiProjects and standardisation

 * WikiProject Templates – WikiProject for template standardisation.
 * WikiProject Infoboxes
 * WikiProject Inline Templates – earlier WikiProject for template standardisation.
 * WikiProject Stub sorting
 * WikiProject Succession Box Standardization
 * WikiProject User warnings – WikiProject that aims to create a complete, standardised set of user warning templates, with full documentation and help pages.
 * Template standardisation – current and historical attempts
 * Deprecated and orphaned templates – historical reference