Message box
meta-templates
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This is the
asbox
or
article stub box
meta template. It is the standard template used for creating new or updating existing
article stub box
templates. It supports most, if not all, stub template styles.
{{Asbox
| image = just the name of the image, e.g. Image.png - will be sized at 40x30px
| subject = given before "article", e.g. "this *biographical* article is a stub"
| qualifier = given after "article" e.g. "this article *about a musician* is a stub"
| category = just the name of the category to place tagged pages in, e.g. History stubs
| name = the full name of the stub template itself, used to reference itself internally
}}
This simple usage should suffice for a great many stub templates. Additional parameters are described below for advanced use.
{{Asbox
| image = Ambox style.png
| pix =
| subject =
| article =
| qualifier =
| category =
| tempsort =
| category1 =
| tempsort1 =
| note =
| name = {{subst:FULLPAGENAME}}
}}
If the image is called with an icon template,
icon
is set to the full syntax of the template; that's the name of the template, plus any arguments (separated with
|
), including the
{{
and
}}
around it. Icon can also be used to provide the full image markup (include the opening and closing square brackets), if special image settings such as "border" are to be used. If the image is called explicitly
image
is the name of the image :-
pix
will likely be required as well, the default value for
pix
is 40x30.
imagealt
may be used to override the default
alt text
which is set to "Stub icon".
The size of the image in pixels (no need to append px). Only
required
if
image
is used and this image requires a size different from the default maximum of 40x30 pixels. (Note that in the interests of standardising the formats of stub messages, images of size 40x30 are much preferred.)
This
subject
article
qualifier
is a stub...
Examples:
- This
geography
article
about a place in Rohan
is a stub...
- This
elementary physics
article is a stub...
- This article
about Rudolph the Red-nosed reindeer
is a stub...
The stub category the articles should go in.
If exists the stub template (and any other templates) will be put in its own category sorted as " " (space) followed by
tempsort
, otherwise it will be sorted with the value of " " (space) followed by the template name.
An optional second stub category the articles should go in.
If exists the stub template (and any other templates) will be put in its own category sorted as " " (space) followed by
tempsort1
, otherwise it will be sorted with the value of " " (space) followed by the template name.
An optional third stub category the articles should go in.
If exists the stub template (and any other templates) will be put in its own category sorted as " " (space) followed by
tempsort2
, otherwise it will be sorted with the value of " " (space) followed by the template name.
If exists the value will be added, as a "small" note, to the stub template.
The full page name of the template itself.
Based on {{
Østfold-geo-stub
}}:
{{Asbox
| image = Østfold_vapen.svg
| pix = 30
| subject = [[Østfold]] location
| category = Østfold geography stubs
| tempsort = *
| name = Template:Østfold-geo-stub
}}
appears as:
Using
icon
and category1
[
hariri chanzo
]
Using
icon
allows more flexibility in some circumstances than
image
and
pix
, since it can be used with templates. Based on {{
Wales-footy-bio-stub
}}:
{{Asbox
| icon = {{Soccer icon|Wales|50}}
| subject = biographical
| qualifier = related to Welsh association football
| category = Welsh football biography stubs
| tempsort = *
| name = Template:Wales-footy-bio-stub
}}
appears as:
The page
here
should have a complete list of all templates using this template. This list can be compared with existing list of stub templates to identify new stub templates created out of process.
The last entries will also be the most recently created items.
This template contains:
{{Navbar|{{{name}}}|mini=yes|style=position:absolute; right:15px; font-size:smaller; display:none;}}
allowing a user to specify with css that three links regarding the stub template are shown (see
[1]
). A side effect is that a non-existing talk page of the stub template may show up on
Special:WantedPages
.
There are several meta-templates in the mbox family:
- {{
ambox
}} ? For article message boxes.
- {{
cmbox
}} ? For category message boxes.
- {{
imbox
}} ? For file (image) page message boxes.
- {{
mbox
}} ? Has namespace detection, for message boxes that are used on several types of pages and thus need to change style depending on what page they are used on.
- {{
ombox
}} ? For other pages message boxes.
- {{
tmbox
}} ? For talk page message boxes.
Closely related meta-templates:
- {{
asbox
}} ? For article stub message boxes.
- {{
dmbox
}} ? For disambiguation and set index message boxes.
- {{
fmbox
}} ? For header and footer message boxes.