Wikipedia:WikiProject Worcestershire/Templates

We have started writing a selection of templates to try to make your life easier, and give WikiProject Worcestershire a common face. You've probably used a template already - it's anything enclosed in double curly-brackets that automatically expands on the page to do something useful.

These are pretty new, so may be buggy. If you know what you're doing, or feel confident, don't hesitate to edit them. But remember, templates are transcluded onto lots of pages, so when you edit a template you are potentially changing a lot of pages.

Article talk page template
All entries of Worcestershire towns and villages should have the above template placed on their talk pages. A list of categories whose articles should be tagged is available at WikiProject Worcestershire. Add the template by placing at the top of the talk page. Sometimes, you will see a UK geography WikiProject template already there; in these cases, add our template after theirs.

You can flag the page as needing help by adding  |attention=yes ,  |needs-refs=yes ,  |needs-photo=yes  or  |needs-infobox=yes  at the end of the template. Thus, a page in real trouble might be flagged, producing:

This will (hopefully) inspire you to go and fix it. Once you've added all the missing parts, remember to edit the template to remove the flags. After your fine work, you will probably want to re-assess the article at the same time.

A useful feature of this template is that it automatically adds the article to the Worcestershire category. Also, when you flag articles as needing some attention they are automatically added to appropriate categories, making them much easier for other editors to find:
 * Worcestershire articles needing attention
 * Worcestershire articles needing infoboxes
 * Worcestershire articles needing references
 * Worcestershire articles needing photographs

For more details about using this template, see here.

Project userbox
We also have three userboxes available for you to add to your user page:

You can add these to your homepage using User WikiProject Worcestershire, User from Worcestershire or User Worcestershire. To see a working example, have a look here.

New members
If someone new signs up to the Worcestershire project, send them a quick welcome by adding Wikiproject Worcestershire welcome to their talk page, which they will see as:

Or if you keep finding the same name on Worcestershire articles, invite them to join by adding Wikiproject Worcestershire invite to their talk page, which will produce:

On both banners, the first WikiProject Worcestershire will be automatically replaced by the editors name.