User:Gundam785/Special effects templates

This page is a list of templates to do "special effects", mostly to text. It is not a list of boilerplate or pastel boxes.

Feel free to edit this page as if it were in the Wikipedia: namespace.

Suggestion: Populate Category:Wikipedia special effects templates, with Category:If Templates being a member. Remember <noinclude> </noinclude> around Category definitions. (SEWilco 13:51, 21 October 2005 (UTC))

Case insensitive ASCII order, please.

• Template:article · Template talk:article
  • Creates a link to an article together with links to show its history and to add it to your watchlist.
    • Usage: {{article|Example}}
    • Results: Example (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

• Template:an · Template talk:an
  • Creates a link to a footnote with the same name created by Template:anb.
    • Usage: {{an|an-sample}}
    • Results: ^[1]

• Template:anb · Template talk:anb
  • Creates a footnote link back to the corresponding link created with Template:an.
    • Usage: # {{anb|an-sample}} sample
    • Results:

      1. ^ sample

• Template:clear · Template talk:clear
  • Clears all floats.
    • Usage: {{clear}}
    • Results:

• Template:clearleft · Template talk:clearleft
  • Clears left floats, without stopping the text flow.
    • Usage: {{clearleft}}
    • Results:

• Template:clearright · Template talk:clearright
  • Clears right floats, without stopping the text flow.
    • Usage: {{clearright}}
    • Results:

• Template:daterange · Template talk:daterange
  • Marks a range of dates. If two parameters given, displays using "1 to 2" style.
    • Usage: {{daterange|[[2002]]|[[2004]]}}
    • Results: 2002 to 2004

• Template:flag · Wikipedia:WikiProject Flag Template
  • Displays a flag icon with text linked to that country's page. Aliases supported.
    • Usage: {{flag|USA}}
    • Results: USA
  • Related: {{flagicon|USA}}:

• Template:IPA · Template talk:IPA
  • Loads the special fonts needed for IPA in Unicode on Microsoft Internet Explorer.
    • Usage: {{IPA|sample}}
    • Results: sample

• Template:nobr · Template talk:nobr
  • Does the same as <nobr>, which is a nonstandard tag not supported by MediaWiki.
    • Usage: {{nobr|sample}}
    • Results: sample

• Template:note · Template talk:note
  • Creates a footnote link back to the corresponding link created with Template:ref.
  • Also known as Template:endnote.
    • Usage: # {{note|ref-sample}} sample
    • Results:

      1. ^ sample

• Template:polytonic · Template talk:polytonic
  • Loads the special fonts needed for polytonic Greek script on Microsoft Internet Explorer.
    • Usage: {{polytonic|sample}}
    • Results: sample

• Template:ref · Template talk:ref
  • Creates a link to a footnote with the same name created by Template:note.
    • Usage: {{ref|ref-sample}}
    • Results: ^[2]

• Template:selfref · Template talk:selfref
  • Used to insert self-references to Wikipedia in articles; intended to be able to be blanked by forks and mirrors.
    • Usage: {{selfref|sample}}
    • Results:

• Template:sub · Template talk:sub
  • Does the same as <sub>.
    • Usage: {{subst:sub|1}}
    • Results: ₁

• Template:sup · Template talk:sup
  • Does the same as <sup>.
    • Usage: {{subst:sup|1}}
    • Results: ¹

• Template:ti · Template talk:ti
  • Creates a link to a template
    • Usage: {{ti|ti}}
    • Results: Template:ti (talk · links · edit)

• Template:tic · Template talk:tic
  • Creates a link to a template
    • Usage: {{tic|tic}}
    • Results: Template:tic (talk links edit)

• Template:tl · Template talk:tl
  • Creates a link to a template.
    • Usage: {{tl|tl}}
    • Results: {{tl}}

• Template:unsigned · Template talk:unsigned
  • Used to add a signature to an unsigned comment.
    • Usage: {{unsigned|Example|00:00, 01 Apr 2005 (UTC)}}
    • Results: —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Example (talk • contribs) 00:00, 01 Apr 2005 (UTC).

• Template:unsigned2 · Template talk:unsigned2
  • Used to add a signature to an unsigned comment.
    • Usage: {{unsigned2|00:00, 01 Apr 2005|Example}}
    • Results: —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Example (talk • contribs) 00:00, 01 Apr 2005 (UTC)

• Template:user · Template talk:user
  • Creates a link to a user page, together with a link to its talk page and to the user's contributions.
  • Also known as Template:vandal.
    • Usage: {{user|Example}}
    • Results: Example (talk · contribs)

• Template:userblock · Template talk:userblock
  • Creates a link to a user page, together with a link to its talk page, to the user's contributions, and to the block log.
    • Usage: {{userblock|Example}}
    • Results: Example (talk · contribs · block log)

See also

• Wikipedia:Template messages
• User:Gundam785/Administrator templates