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This page lists existing templates which you may find useful. For information on what templates are and how to use them, please see Wikipedia:Template namespace.

Instructions: When you add new template messages to this page, please help keep the tables in alphabetical order.

If you can't find the template that you need, you can request it on Wikipedia:Requested templates


Main page and alternatives

  • For templates used on one of the Wikipedia's Main Pages.

Article-related namespace

Please list navigational templates (as, for example, between pages relating to a specific topic) at Wikipedia:Navigational templates or at the appropriate WikiProject page. See also Wikipedia:Article series.


  • Content warnings
  • Current events
  • Disambiguation / Other uses
  • Expansion requests
  • Footnotes / References
  • Instructions
  • Lorem ipsum
  • Miscellaneous info
  • Solution and spoiler warnings
  • Special character warnings
  • Technical limitations
  • Tools

  • Citation templates for generic and specific sources
  • GFDL sources
  • Public domain sources
  • Requesting sources and verification
  • U.S. government sources

  • To databases (IMDb, Gutenberg, etc.)
  • To main articles
  • To maps
  • To notes about German names
  • To sister projects

  • All templates relating to Wikimedia sister projects

  • Categories (CfD)
  • Images and media (IfD)
  • Redirects (RfD)
  • Speedy deletion (D)
  • Templates (TfD)
  • Stub types (SfD)
  • Articles (AfD)

  • Accuracy
  • Suspected hoax
  • Neutrality
  • Original research
  • Contradictory
  • Controversial
  • Two versions
  • Unencyclopedic

  • Article in use (major edits)
  • Protected from editing/vandalism
  • Copyright violations
  • Article issues
    • General attention needed
    • ISSN issues
    • Lack of geopolitical balance
    • Translations
    • IPA conversion
  • Merging / Splitting
  • Categorization issues
  • Move to sister projects

  • General cleanup
  • Wikify, copyediting
  • Verify facts
  • Importance/significance
  • Context; technical
  • Tone; clarity
  • Fact or fiction
  • Self-contradictory
  • Complete rewrite
  • Translate
  • Pronunciation (IPA)
  • Geographical balance
  • Merges, moves

(Some of the templates are on multiple lists in the row above.)


  • Tables of contents: 0-9/A-Z
  • Category TOCs

  • Dynamic lists
  • Incomplete lists
  • Subject or topic lists

  • Table attributes for specific infoboxes
  • Conservation status of species for taxoboxes

See also: Wikipedia:Infobox templates and Wikipedia:WikiProject Tree of Life/Taxobox_Usage


  • To be inserted at the bottom of redirect page, but does not prevent the redirect from working.

    Note: This feature is broken in MediaWiki 1.4. See the Bugzilla:927 bug report.

  • Featured articles (and candidates)
  • Free images
  • Korea-related
  • Link to translation
  • Peer review
  • ToDo lists
  • WikiProject notices
  • WikiProject inactive notice
  • Comment

  • Coat of Arms
  • Copyright status unknown or unverified
  • Creative commons licensed image
  • Fair use claimed
  • Free use image / Semi-free use image
  • Government copyrights (UK, Canada, Poland)
  • GNU/GFDL image
  • Images and media for deletion
  • Image categorization
  • Non-free (copyrighted) image
  • "not an orphan"
  • Public domain image
  • Screenshot

See also: Wikipedia:Image copyright tags


  • Integration of Ogg-files
  • Sound sample (Ogg, fair use claimed)

  • Calendars
  • Court Decisions
  • Periodic Table
Non article-related namespace

  • Policies and non-policies
  • Village Talk
  • WikiProjects
  • WP:Sandbox
  • WP:FAQ
  • WP:BJAODN (Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense)

  • Births in Years
  • Books in Years
  • Deaths in Years
  • More information
  • Categorization of people:
    • Subjective Category Disclaimer
    • Disputed categorisation

  • Contribution Licensing
  • Disclaimer
  • Languages
  • New Page Links
  • Open Tasks
  • Picture of the Day
  • Shared IP
  • Wikimedia Licensing

  • Experimenting & Vandalism Notices
  • Shared IP Notices
  • Spamming Notices
  • Three Revert Rule
  • User Talk Requests
  • Welcome Messages
  • Edit-summary request
  • Minor-edit reminder

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