Wikipedia:WikiProject Inline Templates

Welcome to WikiProject Inline Templates. This collaboration is dedicated to improving Wikipedia's inline neutrality- & attribution-cleanup, dispute, and footnote templates. This page and contain their suggestions and various resources; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians interested in the topic. If you would like to help, please join the project by adding your name to the list of participants. Membership merely signifies your interest in inline templates and members are under no obligation to do anything; however, the to-do list is a good place to actually starting helping out.

Note that "inline" is used here in the sense of "within text" rather than "directly from another server".

Description

 * A project to centralize the creation and management of inline superscript templates such as Citation needed.

Goals

 * Protect templates from well-meaning reformatting attempts that are known to cause problems in various browsers
 * Develop a "meta-template" from which all of these templates are derived, so that layout problems with them can be fixed in one place
 * Ensure consistency between all of these templates, as to their formatting, naming, content and mouseover (tooltip) messages
 * Provide a talk forum for discussion of problems with the templates, or other needs with regard to them
 * Provide a proposals area for the organized creation of new templates of this sort instead of today's random creation of often redundant inline templates
 * Possibly provide an ITfD mechanism, the way WikiProject Stub sorting has provided the SfD mechanism
 * Actually identify and categorize all of the templates of this sort
 * Ensure that the Template messages documentation is updated with regard to these templates
 * Write a guide to their usage (possibly stand-alone, or possibly as part of the MoS)
 * Improve each template's documentation

Scope

 * Inline superscripted cleanup and dispute templates such as Citation needed and Clarify me
 * Reference citation inline templates such as the Ref and Note family of templates
 * Recommendations on improvements to Cite.php-style reference citation mechanism (, , and  indentation used by note label references. There are a pair of templates, refbegin and refend, related to reflist, which solve this misalignment problem, to an extent (see "Option 3..." at Template:Refbegin documentation for usage), in that they match the "-style manually-added general sources in the References section. Recommendation: Have developers modify to not indent, or at worst to match ":"-level indentation, and modify refbegin and refend to conform.

New inline templates
Please feel free to list new inline templates here (newest at the top, please). It is advisable to propose new inline templates at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Inline Templates before creating them, so as to ensure that there is consensus that they are needed and will not unnecessarily overlap in function with others. Once templates have been checked for standard Fix usage, categorization in Category:Inline templates, and other issues, they should be moved to the main list, above.

Created

 * AI-generated inline. Created December 2023 as an inline version of AI-generated. For text that was potentially generated by AI language models. ⇒
 * globalize-inline. Created July 2020 as an inline version of the 2004 banner template. For individual statements that are inappropriately geographically restricted in viewpoint, and show inappropriate geographic bias.
 * is this date calibrated?. Created August 2018 to identify radiocarbon dates for which it is not clear whether a calibration procedure has been applied, leading to ambiguities of up to 4000 years.
 * better source example. Created June 2016, for self-sourcing examples.
 * contentious label inline. Created June 2016, for Manual of Style (words to watch). ⇒
 * verify quote. Created October 2015, to more specifically address quotation source verification than verify source or cite quote (often it's the transcription or the contextual excision that needs examination, not whether source can be verified). ⇒
 * obsolete source. Created October 2015, to more specifically address a particular kind of WP:RS failure, than the vague or uncertain . ⇒
 * expand acronym. Created in August 2010, to flag acronyms and abbreviations. ⇒
 * romanization needed a.k.a. transliteration needed, an inline template requesting a romanized transliteration or transcription. ⇒
 * needs IPA. inline template for requesting IPA renderings. ⇒
 * Undue weight inline – inline template to flag undue weight issues. ⇒
 * speculation inline – inline variant of speculation ⇒

Discovered

 * Citation needed (lead) ⇒
 * Citation needed span
 * peacock term ⇒
 * importance inline a.k.a. trivia inline ⇒ [formerly a.k.a. notability inline, notability-inline which now give an error, and notability? which now goes to the banner Notability)
 * DjVulink
 * talk page stalker a.k.a. tps ⇒
 * full citation needed a.k.a. full – requests full citation ⇒
 * attribution needed – needs documentation and other WPILTizing ⇒
 * editorializing – inline template for Manual of Style (words to watch) ⇒
 * editorialising – different-spelling wrapper for the above ⇒
 * registration required – adds a note that registration is required to access the contents of a link. ⇒
 * SCICN ⇒
 * SCIRS ⇒
 * subscription required – adds a note that subscription is required to access the contents of a link. ⇒
 * R – a wrapper around &lt;ref name="..." /&gt;
 * Not a typo a.k.a. typo a.k.a. Proper name a.k.a. As written – wraps an intentional typo. For example, this is used on the Celsius page to show examples of bad formatting of temperatures.
 * pronunciation needed – slightly wordy request for pronunciation info. ⇒
 * archive inline
 * swatch inline
 * relevance inline a.k.a. off-topic-inline ⇒
 * self-published inline ⇒
 * spam link a.k.a. linkspam ⇒
 * example needed ⇒
 * examples ⇒
 * Pronunciation
 * coord/display/inline – one of several subroutines of coord
 * zh – Use this template to show a Chinese name, word, term or phrase in a line of text with various readings.
 * ISBN missing – an in-line request for the ISBN of a published source. Similar in use to Year missing and Page needed, etc. ⇒
 * Circular ref ⇒
 * Quantify ⇒
 * Link note ⇒
 * Password-protected ⇒
 * Subscription or libraries ⇒
 * Subscription or membership required ⇒
 * Closed access ⇒
 * Open access ⇒
 * KIA ⇒
 * DOW ⇒
 * Executed ⇒
 * POW ⇒
 * Surrendered ⇒
 * WIA ⇒

Deleted

 * Click inline – deleted per this TfD and the previous one about click
 * External links inline – inline template to flag external links that may fail WP:EL or WP:NOTLINK. (Template deleted September 12, 2011)
 * Fact-now – pointless wrapper for
 * Inline warning — used manually to provide a custom cleanup note
 * dlw – redundant with and replaced by webarchive, waybackdate
 * Ent – use Cite.php or ref/note)
 * inote
 * hcard-geo and hcard-geo-title
 * InlineXbeg and InlineXend – created in June 2008, in response to an inline template talk page discussion, here. a pair of templates designed to mark extended passages for attention with only a single tag at the end (avoiding chopping text to pieces).
 * Wayback – deprecated in favor of webarchive, waybackdate

Talk page banner

 * WPILT banner – "This template is within the scope of WikiProject Inline Templates ..."

Userbox

 * User WPILT

Categories

 * Category:Inline templates

Internal
 * Category:WikiProject Inline Templates
 * Category:WikiProject Inline Templates participants

Resources

 * Avoid self-references
 * Category:Wikipedia maintenance templates

Related projects

 * Parent: WikiProject Templates
 * Inactive: Keep Wikipedia-related metadata out of articles