User talk:Gorstrom

Re: A World With No Boundaries

Gorstrom wrote:

Hi, I recently cleaned up the article "A World With No Boundaries" but I can't work out how to un-tag it. I'm fairly new to all this Wikipedia business so please excuse my newbiness.

Thanks for any help.

Tags on articles are added using templates. These are essentially bits of content that can be applied to many pages, and have several uses. A template is added to a page by enclosing its name with {{ and }}; in this case the cleanup template is Template:cleanup-date, so adding {{cleanup-date}} to an article will display the tag. In A World With No Boundaries the template appears on the top line as {{cleanup-date|August 2006}} – the bit after the | is a parameter, which passes information to the template (in this case, the date when the tag was applied) so that the template can display it. Anyway, all you have to do to remove a tag is remove the link to the template – in this case, just delete the top line of the article. Conversely, if you see an article that needs cleanup and want to tag it as such, simply add {{cleanup}} to the top.

Templates are one of the more complicated parts of Wikipedia (there's a load of other things I haven't mentioned such as subst: and default parameters), but don't worry about these yet! Hope this helps – Gurch 11:55, 26 September 2006 (UTC)