Help:Templates Overview

Following is a list of commonly used templates on A Wiki of Ice and Fire; these are only a subset, representing some of the most important and commonly used ones. Follow the specific template links for usage information on each of the templates. If you feel that a template belongs on this page, do not hesitate to add it.

Templates

Linking

Template:Date	Adds link to "Years after Aegon's Conquest" chronology.
Template:Main	Adds link to the main page on that article.
Template:See homonyms	to add disambiguations

References

These templates add sources to an article that support the information in it.

Template:References	add References at the bottom of the page.
Template:Citation needed	add a small Citation needed text.
Template:Ref	add reference to book/chapter of SOIAF
Template:cite web	Wikipidea format for citing online Web sources.
Category:Cross-reference_templates	Full list of the References related templates on the wiki.

Repeatedly used

Category:Infobox templates	Info boxes for characters, houses, etc.
Category:Navigational templates	list of all the Navigational templates
Category:Family_trees	list of all the Family trees templates

More technical

|__TOC__ / __NOTOC__ / {{TOC right}}	Table of contents: Force it to show / never show / float it to the right.
Template:Nowrap	Prevents line wraps in text and links
Template:Columns	breaks your text automatically into a number of columns

Maintenance templates

These templates inform other editors about the article's state, marking articles that need editor attention. We encourage any contributor to make use of these maintenance templates, as it makes collaborative editing much easier to coordinate.

Template:Note	Place notes into an article or a page.
Template:Warning	Place a warning into an article or a page.
Template:Outdated	Mark the page as outdated.
Template:Stub	Mark that the page needs to be expanded.
Template:Cleanup	For articles that have major problems or multiple issues and require "cleaning up".
Template:Delete	Request page to be deleted (and create some work for the admins ;) )
Template:Incomplete	Mark the article which is still a work in progress.
Template:Merge	Suggest articles/section that are redundant and should be merged merged with another article/section.

Other

Template:Copyright tags	for stating copyright status for uploaded images and other files.
Category:Templates	Listing of all templates in the wiki, categorized into the various subcategories.