User:Sparkit/templates

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This is a suggestion for Wikipedia:Template standardisation/article.

NOTES:

• These samples are GIFs, thus look blurred. I DO NOT propose that templates be made of GIFs. In usage these would be made of wikicode, CSS/HTML. (My CSS skills are ... ummmmmm... weak.)
• I'll timestamp any changes I make in the update section below.

CONCEPT:

• no graphics
• color bar on right indicates urgency or importance
• Standard width for attractive stacking.
• Notices for editors only all have "EDITOR NOTICE" on first line, one or two word description below, and link to discussion page.
• All are designed to go on article pages.

Style:

• just slightly darker than background of page.

UPDATES

• Made them all the same width for stacking. -->>sparkit|TALK<< 15:45, July 13, 2005 (UTC)
• Stacking sample. -->>sparkit|TALK<< 15:45, July 13, 2005 (UTC)
• Other notes section. -->>sparkit|TALK<< 16:57, July 13, 2005 (UTC)
• Plain "Editor Notice" sample. -->>sparkit|TALK<< 17:38, July 13, 2005 (UTC)
• Updated explaination about GIF usage. -->>sparkit|TALK<< 19:37, July 13, 2005 (UTC)

Categories of template

Deletion

• Location: top center
• Style: see above
• Duration: temporary

VFD Template:Tl:

File:ENvfd.gif

Delete Template:Tl:

File:ENdelete.gif

Disambiguation

• Location: bottom center
• Style: just type and bars
• Duration: permanent

Disambig Template:Tl:

Disputes and warnings

• Location: top center
• Style: see concept above
• Duration: as long as it takes

POV Template:Tl:

File:ENnopv.gif

Merge Template:Tl:

File:ENmerge.gif

Maintenance

• Location: top right
• Style: see concept above
• Duration: temporary

Cleanup Template:Tl:

File:ENcleanup.gif

Wikify Template:Tl:

File:ENwikify.gif

Source details

• Location: bottom
• Style: plain text
• Duration: permanent

1911 Template:Tl:

This article incorporates content from the public domain 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.

Spoilers

• Location: inline
• Style: plain text with bars
• Duration: permanent

Spoiler Template:Tl:

Stacking

Message stacking would look like this.

File:ENnopv.gif

File:ENmerge.gif

or this...

File:ENcleanup.gif

File:ENwikify.gif

Other notes

• Use the word "Discussion" when referring to discussion pages. Use "Talk" only in the user namespace.
• Each template's Discussion page should have "Purpose" and "Instructions" at the top.
• "Editor Notice" could be used plain, with no words below it, to point editors to the discussion page.

File:ENednotice.gif

• Color coded bar may not work for people with color blindess or the like. Reserch needed.