Templates

This is the base category for templates. All templates available in STOWiki should be categorized in a sub-category here, to make them easier to find for people that might also need them!

Please try an appropriate category for templates, in preference to this category.

There are also sub pages that get pulled into another page just like templates, but are not really useful to anyone else; perhaps they've just been split off to make it easier to edit. Sub pages like that do not have to be categorized as templates at all.

To put a template in Category:Templates:

<noinclude>[[Category:Templates]]

</noinclude>Text or graphic that is meant to be used in-line

• Alternatively, if the template has a documentation subpage, you can place the category there inside <includeonly> tags instead. For example:

This is often the preferable approach, because:

1. There's no danger of accidentally categorizing pages that use the template. Template documentation is automatically wrapped in <noinclude> tags for display on the template page.
2. Although templates may have to be protected to prevent vandalism or disruption to the wiki (since a template coding error can affect every article that uses the template), template documentation is far less often subject to edit restrictions. Even protected templates can be categorized by any user who's able to edit the template documentation.

• Remember that a template can be put in multiple categories if it belongs to them all!
• Or, if this is not quite the right category, go back to Category:Templates and try to find a better suited subcategory.