Wikipedia:WikiProject Climbing/Templates

There are many templates useful for climbing articles, including:
 * WikiProject Climbing
 * Infobox climbing area
 * Infobox climbing route
 * Infobox climber
 * Infobox mountain
 * Climbing-stub

Template:Infobox mountain
To add a page to WikiProject Climbing, add the template to the article's talk page.

There is one infobox that makes any mountain infobox: Infobox mountain. See an example, right, of the use of the template. This template has three required parameters: It has many optional parameters:
 * Name
 * Elevation (metric units first, but Imperial units first for peaks in the USA
 * Location (State/Province, then country).
 * Photo (filename, no need for "Image:")
 * Caption (only if there is a photo)
 * Range (if applicable)
 * Prominence (if known)
 * Coordinates (for use with coord
 * Topographic map (map authority, map name)
 * Type (see List of mountain types)
 * Age (of rock)
 * Last eruption (if volcano, last major eruption, not steam)
 * First ascent (if not a hike-up mountain, year and members of expedition)
 * Easiest route
 * Grid_ref_uk
 * Grid_ref_ireland
 * Listing (if peak belongs to well-known list of hills, e.g., Munros)
 * Translation (if peak name is not English, it is good to provide a translation)
 * Language (if peak name is not English)
 * Pronunciation (if non-obvious)

Copy and paste a sample infobox from any of the following links to get started:


 * Infobox for mountains in the Alps
 * Infobox for mountains in Canada
 * Infobox for mountains in the Himalaya
 * Infobox for mountains in the United Kingdom
 * Infobox for mountains in the United States

The previous multi-template is now deprecated.

Mountain template
Talk pages of articles about mountains are encouraged to use Mountain. The talk pages that do use this template are at Pages linking to Mountain. A sorted list of these pages is at List of mountains.