WoWWiki:Templates

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Article management tags

See also: Category:Article management tags

Cleanup

Add to articles or sections that require editing attention. This will include them in Category:Articles to clean up.

Please try and add reasons - this will help editors to change what is wrong or add what is not there without having to ask the user who tagged the page.

Merge

Add to articles that should be merged into one article. This will include them in Category:Merge candidates. Further elaboration on the articles' discussion pages would be helpful, such as suggesting which name both articles should be listed under.

Move

Add to articles that should be moved to another name (Category:Move candidates), in accordance with the Naming Policy. While many moves can be made immediately, if moving will be an involved process (as with a category) or there is debate as to what the article should be called, it is best to receive some feedback first.

Split

Add to articles that should have sections split off into separate articles. This will include them in Category:Split candidates. Be sure to clarify on the article's discussion page which sections you think should be moved to a new article, and why.

Stubs

When a page has little or no useful information, then it is a stub. See the WoWWiki:Stub page for more info on how to deal with stubs.

Current stub templates

Deletion templates

{{Delete}}, {{Speedydelete}}, {{Terminate}} etc are used as part of the article deletion process. See Delete, Terminate.

Talk pages

{{Talkheader|analysis=on}} (from {{Talkheader}})

This template can be added to an article's talk page where discussion about the issue in general is overwhelming editorial concerns regarding the article in particular. See WoWWiki:Talk page guidelines for more info.

Citations needed

{{Source needed}} displays a well-visible banner and places the article in Category:Articles needing citations
{{fact}} inserts a small link in the text and places the article in Category:Articles needing citations

General wiki templates

See also: Category:General wiki templates

Icons

Note that all these icons appear to the left of the text left edge. Use them only in indented sections (e.g. after a ":").

Category helpers

Use {{Server_US|<realm type>|<timezone>|<server>}} to easily categorize US servers. (timezone = Eastern, Central, Pacific, etc....) (server = article name minus Server:, helps alphabetize categories)

Use {{Server_EU|<realm type>|<language>|<server>}} to easily categorize EU servers. (language = English, French, German, etc....) (server = article name minus Server:, helps alphabetize categories)

Use {{Guild_US|<PvE/PvP/RP>|<faction>}} to easily categorize US guilds.

Use {{Guild_EU|<PvE/PvP/RP>|<faction>}} to easily categorize EU guilds.

Use {{correct2category|<article type>|<good-category>}} at the top of category pages that shouldn't be used to tell people what category they should be using.

Use {{bigcat}} at the bottom of very large (nearly or over 200 articles) categories:

	This is a very large category!
	To see more of it, click the links below for specific letters, or click the "Next" (or "Prev") links. Also note that subcategories are sorted alongside articles, so not all subcategories are visible on the first page.
Index	* - A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - J - K - L - M - N - O - P - Q - R - S - T - U - V - W - X - Y - Z 0-9 - a - b - c - d - e - f - g - h - i - j - k - l - m - n - o - p - q - r - s - t - u - v - w - x - y - z - ~

Note that {{catredirect|destination category}} is no longer required as of the MediaWiki 1.7 upgrade. You can now use regular #redirect [[:Category:destination category]] redirects.

Clear below break before starting

You can use {{clr}} instead of the HTML tag that clears space below things like images, pictures and tables, so stuff doesn't begin until the bottom of the image, picture or table box.
You can also use {{clrl}} or {{clrr}} to clear only left or right floats (example: Item pages)

Line spacing

{{spc}} adds a moderate space between two paragraphs, or between items in a bullet list. The spacing is about 75% of a regular line height.

Disambiguation

Use {{disambig}}, if a page has a chance of being confused with a page of a similar name but different content, a disambiguation page may be in order. See that page for more info on creating one and linking to it.

Tables of Contents

Though discouraged (see WoWWiki:Manual of Style), you can float the table of contents of a page to the right with {{tocright}}

Tabs

If you want to make a nice looking tab to clearly indicate what to click, like discussion, you can use the following:

{{articletab}} – article
{{categorytab}} – category
{{discussiontab}} – discussion
{{edittab}} – edit this page
- {{editplustab}} – edit + for adding sections in talk pages
- {{plustab}} – + for adding sections in talk pages
{{helptab}} – help
{{historytab}} – history
{{movetab}} – move
{{projectpagetab}} – project page
{{watchtab}} – watch
{{specialpagetab}} – special page
{{templatetab}} – template
{{unwatchtab}} – unwatch
{{userpagetab}} – user page
{{viewsourcetab}} – view source

Template links

Make example template code for templates with a link to them:

Simple template (i.e. {{t|<template>}})

Example, Example/Begin, Example/End

{{Example|}} can be used for very small examples, but often you will want to pull in substantial pieces of other pages or templates, in which case you can use {{Example/Begin}} LOTS of text, probably multiline {{Example/End}}:

LOTS of text, probably multiline

Page actions

{{edit|<pagename>}} can be used to create a link for editing a page, e.g. {{edit|WoWWiki:Templates}} creates [edit].

{{purge|<your text>}} creates a link that purges the cache of a page, i.e. forces a reload of all pulled-in templates. Sensible texts would be e.g. purge page cache, update subpages, refresh templates.

Smileys

{{=)}}	{{=P}}	{{awesome}}	{{argh}}
{{neckbeard}}	{{psyduck}}	{{sparta}}

World of Warcraft templates

See also: Category:WoW utility templates

Money

Multiple ways to do money exist, but only a few are practical, and here they are:

123 45 67 {{cost|<123>|<45>|<67>}}
123 67 {{cost|<123>|<>|<67>}}
25 50 {{cost|<g=25>|<s=50>}}
35 10 {{cost|<s=35>|<c=10>}}
10 48 32 {{cost|<g=10>|<s=48>|<c=32>}}

Quests

There are three ways to link to quest articles. There is the normal way, because sometimes you just need to mention the quest: Quest:Holy Bologna: What the Light Won't Tell You. The second makes use of the template {{quest}}, which automatically drops the "Quest:" from the name (used for cleaner code):

{{quest|Holy Bologna: What the Light Won't Tell You}} as opposed to [[Quest:Holy Bologna: What the Light Won't Tell You|Holy Bologna: What the Light Won't Tell You]]

The last way is more detailed, and is usually used in bulleted lists.

{{questlong|<faction>|<questlevel>|<questname>|<displayname>}}
Usage: {{questlong|Neutral|54|Holy Bologna: What the Light Won't Tell You}}
Displays: [54] Holy Bologna: What the Light Won't Tell You

Footers

See also: Category:Navigation templates

These templates take one parameter "class" which should be replaced by the class name; "Mage", "Warrior" etc. This is used to create links back to class-specific pages.

{{AbilitiesFooter|<class>}}

WoW icons

See also: Category:WoW icon templates

{{RaceIcon}} for all gender/race icons (both in large and small sizes.
{{ClassIcon}} for all class icons (both in large and small sizes).
Alliance icons:
- {{Alliance Icon Small}} A
- {{Alliance Icon}}
Horde icons:
- {{Horde Icon Small}} H
- {{Horde Icon}}

Wow Armory icons

{{SpecIcon|<>|<Spec Name>|<>|<Class Name>}} can be used to display spec icons
Realm RoundIcon

Article types

See also: Category:Article type templates

Templates for labeling Articles with an article type (such as 'Character', 'Location', 'User Interface', 'Quest', 'Guild', etc.) are available: see WoWWiki:Article types.

Miscellaneous

{{Testpatch|<See Patch 2.4.>}} produces:

This article contains information based on the test realms and may change dramatically before the patch is finalised.
See Patch 2.4.

(If you've created a new page, use {{Stub/PTR}} instead)

{{Speculation}} produces:

This article or section includes speculation, observations or opinions possibly supported by lore or by Blizzard officials.
It should not be taken as representing official lore!

{{Speculation-inline}} (use like {{fact}}) produces:

^{[speculation]}

{{Silly}} produces:

This is a silly article

This article is silly. Coming from a source other than the computer games, trading card game, novels, RPG, or manga, its content is not part of official Warcraft lore, but nevertheless has become part of the culture belonging to World of Warcraft or Blizzard's jokes.

{{Guild}} produces:

This article is a guild information page

The contents herein are entirely player made and in no way represent official World of Warcraft history or occurrences which are accurate for all realms. The characters and events listed are of an independent nature and applied for roleplaying, fictional, speculative, or opinions from a limited playerbase only. Guild pages must comply with the guild page policy.

{{GOG}} produces:

This article is a a group of guilds information page

The contents herein are entirely player made and in no way represent official World of Warcraft history or occurrences which are accurate for all realms. The characters and events listed are of an independent nature and applied for roleplaying, fictional, speculative, or opinions from a limited playerbase only. Guild pages must comply with the guild page policy.

{{PC}} produces:

This article is a player character biography page

The contents herein are entirely player made and in no way represent official World of Warcraft history or occurrences which are accurate for all realms. The characters and events listed are of an independent nature and applied for roleplaying, fictional, speculative, or opinions from a limited playerbase only.
Please make sure player character articles are named properly - see the player character articles policy.

{{Player}} produces:

This article is a player information page

The contents herein are entirely player made and in no way represent official World of Warcraft history or occurrences which are accurate for all realms. The characters and events listed are of an independent nature and applied for roleplaying, fictional, speculative, or opinions from a limited playerbase only. Please make sure player character articles are in user namespaces - see the personal articles policy.

{{Fanfic}} produces:

This article is fan fiction

The contents herein are entirely player made and in no way represent official World of Warcraft lore or history. The characters and events listed are of an independent nature and are applied for roleplaying purposes only.

World of Warcraft content

Wrath of the Lich King

{{Wotlk}} (used for major articles relating to WofLK)

Burning Crusade

{{bc}} (no longer used)

Core Game

{{WoW}} produces:

This article or section contains lore taken from the World of Warcraft MMO & its expansions, the manuals and related web material.

Warcraft RTS Games

{{Warcraft III}} produces:

This article or section contains lore taken from Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne, the manuals, and official bonus maps.

{{Warcraft II}} produces:

This article contains lore taken from Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness, Warcraft II: Beyond the Dark Portal, the manuals, and official bonus maps.

{{Warcraft I}} produces:

This article contains lore taken from Warcraft: Orcs & Humans, its manual, and official bonus maps.

Lore and Other Sources

{{Novel}} produces:

This article or section contains lore taken from Warcraft novels or short stories.

{{Graphic novel}} produces:

This article or section contains lore taken from the Warcraft manga or comics.

{{RPG}} produces:

This article or section contains lore taken from the Warcraft RPG books.

{{TCGlore}} produces:

This article or section contains lore taken from the World of Warcraft Trading Card Game and expansion sets.

{{TCG}} produces:

This article or section contains information relating to gameplay taken from the World of Warcraft Trading Card Game.

Blizzard

Forum links

Use {{blizzforumlink| topicid | sid | subject | datetime | author}} to get a link like:
0. New Forums Opened!- 1/08/07 | 01/08/2007 12:53:07 PM PST by Nethaera
Assumes a base URL of http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html.

Use {{blizzEUforumlink| topicid | sid | subject | datetime | author}} to get a link like:
0. Welcome to the new forums! | 24/08/2006 16:30:51 UTC by Thundgot
Assumes a base URL of http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html.

Blizzard text colors

Use class="blizztext" for coloring official Blizzard text (Posts, announcements, press releases etc.).
All your CC trinkets will be nerfed against level 60 in 2.0.3, but that's how it was supposed to work.
i.e. All your CC trinkets will be nerfed against level 60 in 2.0.3, but that's how it was supposed to work.

Quality Colors

The following templates change the color of the links. In case there is such a concern, note that each link, when moused over, has the underline in the typical link color. For instance, if a link does not exist, the underline is red; if it does exist, the underline is blue.

NOTE: Color for Artifact items used to be red and is currently undecided by Blizzard as there are no items of this type in-game yet, however GetItemQualityColor API function currently returns 0.90196..., 0.8, 0.50196..., "|cffe6cc80" (shown in that color) for quality=6 (Artifact), which gives some idea. Legendary items are said to have "(Color Undecided)" according to Item Basics at www.wow-europe.com, but have been seen in-game.

For simple quality links for use in other templates, use the following format:

the template name indicates the item has a quality
the first argument is the quality of a given item
the second argument is the name of a given item's article

Example Result

{{Quality|<Artifact>|<artifact>}} artifact

{{Quality|<Legendary>|<legendary>}} legendary

{{Quality|<Epic>|<epic>}} epic

{{Quality|<Rare>|<rare>}} rare

{{Quality|<Uncommon>|<uncommon>}} uncommon

{{Quality|<Common>|<common>}} common

{{Quality|<Poor>|<poor>}} poor

Simple color replacement templates deprecated using styling in MediaWiki:Common.css:

Class Color Code

qc-artifact Artifact Artifact

qc-legendary Legendary Legendary

qc-epic Epic Epic

qc-rare Rare Rare

qc-uncommon Uncommon Uncommon

qc-common Common Common

qc-poor Poor Poor

Item Links

To create an item link within an article, use the {{item}} template, passing it the name of the item's page on WoWWiki. If desire, you can also ask {{item}} to add the item's icon to its output by adding |icon= to the tooltip code.

Example Result

{{item|Atiesh, Greatstaff of the Guardian (Warlock)}} [Atiesh, Greatstaff of the Guardian]

{{item|Azuresong Mageblade|icon=}} [Azuresong Mageblade]

User-related templates

See List of user templates or Category:User templates.

This user has a strong interest in articles on lore.

This user plays as a Miner / Blacksmith.

This user plays as a Shaman.

This user plays as a dwarf.

Page-specific bars and bands

Multisource material

{{Multisource}} (Used for information originating from multiple sources)

This material may be found in multiple sources of lore. See individual citations for more information.

World of Warcraft content

Wrath of the Lich King

{{Wotlk}} (used for major articles relating to WotLK)

{{Wotlk-section}} (used for article sections relating to WotLK)

This section concerns content exclusive to Wrath of the Lich King.

{{Wotlk-inline}} (used for minor articles/article sections relating to WotLK)

Burning Crusade

{{bc}} (no longer used)

{{Bc-section}} (used for article sections relating to TBC)

This section concerns content exclusive to The Burning Crusade.

{{Bc-inline}} (used for minor articles/article sections relating to TBC)

Core game & released expansions

{{WoW}} produces:

This article or section contains lore taken from the World of Warcraft MMO & its expansions, the manuals and related web material.

{{Wow-section}} produces:

This section concerns content exclusive to World of Warcraft.

{{Wow-inline}} produces:

Warcraft RTS Games

{{Warcraft III}} produces:

This article or section contains lore taken from Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne, the manuals, and official bonus maps.

{{WC3-section}} produces:

This section concerns content exclusive to Warcraft III.

{{WC3-inline}} produces:

{{Warcraft II}} produces:

This article contains lore taken from Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness, Warcraft II: Beyond the Dark Portal, the manuals, and official bonus maps.

{{WC2-section}} produces:

This section concerns content exclusive to Warcraft II.

{{WC2-inline}} produces:

{{Warcraft I}} produces:

This article contains lore taken from Warcraft: Orcs & Humans, its manual, and official bonus maps.

{{WC1-section}} produces:

This section concerns content exclusive to Warcraft: Orcs & Humans (aka Warcraft I).

{{WC1-inline}} produces:

Lore and Other Sources

{{Novel}} produces:

This article or section contains lore taken from Warcraft novels or short stories.

{{Novel-section}} produces:

This section concerns content exclusive to the Warcraft novels or short stories.

{{Novel-inline}} produces:

{{Graphic novel}} produces:

This article or section contains lore taken from the Warcraft manga or comics.

{{Comic-section}} produces:

This section concerns content exclusive to the World of Warcraft: The Comic.

{{Comic-inline}} produces:

{{RPG}} produces:

This article or section contains lore taken from the Warcraft RPG books.

{{RPG-section}} produces:

This section concerns content exclusive to the Warcraft RPG.

{{RPG-inline}} produces:

{{TCGlore}} produces:

This article or section contains lore taken from the World of Warcraft Trading Card Game and expansion sets.

{{TCG}} produces:

This article or section contains information relating to gameplay taken from the World of Warcraft Trading Card Game.

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Example	Result
{{Quality\|<Artifact>\|<artifact>}}	artifact
{{Quality\|<Legendary>\|<legendary>}}	legendary
{{Quality\|<Epic>\|<epic>}}	epic
{{Quality\|<Rare>\|<rare>}}	rare
{{Quality\|<Uncommon>\|<uncommon>}}	uncommon
{{Quality\|<Common>\|<common>}}	common
{{Quality\|<Poor>\|<poor>}}	poor

Class	Color	Code
qc-artifact	Artifact	<span class="qc-artifact">Artifact</span>
qc-legendary	Legendary	<span class="qc-legendary">Legendary</span>
qc-epic	Epic	<span class="qc-epic">Epic</span>
qc-rare	Rare	<span class="qc-rare">Rare</span>
qc-uncommon	Uncommon	<span class="qc-uncommon">Uncommon</span>
qc-common	Common	<span class="qc-common">Common</span>
qc-poor	Poor	<span class="qc-poor">Poor</span>

Example	Result
`{{item\|Atiesh, Greatstaff of the Guardian (Warlock)}}`	[Atiesh, Greatstaff of the Guardian]
`{{item\|Azuresong Mageblade\|icon=}}`	[Azuresong Mageblade]