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Message box standardisation

Here are some useful pages:

{{ambox}} – For article message boxes.
{{cmbox}} – For category message boxes.
{{hmbox}} – For hatnote message boxes.
{{imbox}} – For image page message boxes.
{{mbox}} – Has namespace detection, for message boxes that are used on several types of pages thus need to change style depending on what page they are used on.
{{tmbox}} – For talk page message boxes.
{{ombox}} – For other pages message boxes.

Meta pages:

Wikipedia:Article message boxes – The style guideline for creating article message boxes.
Wikipedia:Template messages – Lists most of the article message boxes.

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For each of these templates, please add to the module call: <noinclude>|text={{Lorem ipsum}}</noinclude> so that each call looks like:

{{#invoke:Message box|Xmbox<noinclude>|text={{Lorem ipsum}}</noinclude>}}

So for ambox this would be:

{{#invoke:Message box|ambox<noinclude>|text={{Lorem ipsum}}</noinclude>}}

The rationale is so that users have a sense as to what the template is intended to do, display messages. Done correctly this should just affect the display of the template on the relevant template and should not affect the display of the template on other pages. I tested in my personal sandbox here for one of them and noticed no problems at all. If that could be confusing, what you can do instead is wrap the entire template call in <includeonly>...</includeonly> instead so the template is only visible when called from other pages. Awesome Aasim 17:20, 24 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Not done I don't see a convincing reason to make either change here - the default behavior for a template, without a very good reason otherwise, is to display the output with no parameters at the top, whatever that is. Yes, that sometimes looks ugly, but it is the way it works. I don't see how adding lorem ipsum text and breaking that nice synergy is an improvement. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 18:31, 24 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Parameters?

When i use the mbox template its says no parameters Kdkddtkgk (talk) 01:10, 1 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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So i need to add parametrs to it because it says no parameters Kdkddtkgk (talk) 12:10, 3 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Disagree. --Achim55 (talk) 12:29, 3 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Not done this is not actionable. You would first need to sandbox and test your requested changes. — xaosflux ^Talk 14:53, 3 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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