Wikipedia:Userboxes/Music/Proficiency/Adding

This page describes how to add a new instrument to Category:Wikipedians by musical instrument. To complete the task with zero red links, you must create 5 categories and 5 templates. The following example deals with the organ.

The main category
Create, replacing ist with the name that is used to refer to people who play the specific instrument. See Category:Wikipedians by musical instrument for previous naming conventions. Insert code in the following format, changing the two parameter values:


 * is the abbreviation that appears on the left side of the userbox. Please try to avoid using instrument codes which should be used for a language under the ISO 639 designation system. The language system should take precedence over spin-off systems where code clashes are likely to occur.
 * is the name of the instrument, linked to the article about the instrument.

The following will appear at the top of the category: a box and an alphabetical table of contents:

4 level-specific subcategories
In the previous step, you created. Now, create the following 4 subcategories:



For the first subcategory, insert the following code, replacing the parameter values as in the first step:


 * is in singular form here.
 * is the skill level, one of 1, 2, 3, or 4. All 4 subcategories have the exact same code except for their.

After creation, this box will appear in the subcategory:

4 level-specific templates
For each of the subcategories that you've just made, create the corresponding templates at the following locations:


 * ''-1
 * ''-2
 * ''-3
 * ''-4

The code is the almost same as above:

This is what the userbox will look like when people put them on their user pages.

The general template
This final template allows a user to say that he or she plays an instrument without specifying the skill level. Create it at Template:User ist.

Spread the word
People can now use these templates. To make them known, list them at Instruments using Instrument.