Help talk:Template

New Templates

I thought it might be useful for people to list any new templates which they have created in the Template: name space!

"Documentation?" can be used to show if there is a documentation subpage which explains how to use the template (in the form Template:Template-name/doc)

January 2010

• Template:Oldrfd

• Purpose: This template is for use on the talk page of an article which has been listed at RfD and which was either kept, redirected or merged.
• Syntax: {{oldrfd|pagename|result}}
• Documentation?: Yes

• Template:Oldrfdfull

• Purpose: This template is for use on the talk page of an article which has been listed at RfD (since July 2008) and which was either kept, redirected or merged.
• Syntax: {{oldrfdfull| date =| year =| result =| page =| oldname =}}
• Documentation?: Yes

• Template:Oldrfdfull-log

• Purpose: This template is for use on the talk page of an article which has been listed at RfD (before July 2008) and which was either kept, redirected or merged.
• Syntax: {{oldrfdfull| date =| log=| result =| page =| oldname =}}
• Documentation?: Yes

• Template:List subpages

• Purpose: This template is used to list all the pages in a given namespace and prefix
• Syntax: {{List subpages|prefix|content namespace|caption=Foo}}
• Documentation?: Yes

• Template:Explain

• Purpose: This citation template is used to ask for a word, phrase or sentence to be explained for readers.
• Syntax: {{explain|date=Month Year}}
• Documentation?: Yes

• Template:Collapse

• Purpose: This template is used to create a collapse box for a short amount of text
• Syntax: {{Collapse|1=Discussion text to be put into box.|2=Optional custom heading}}
• Documentation?: Yes

• Template:Collapse top and Template:Collapse bottom

• Purpose: These template is used to create a collapse box for a larger amount of text
• Syntax: {{Collapse top|Optional text}}

DISCUSSION

{{Collapse bottom}}

• Documentation?: Yes