Help:Templates Overview

This is a quick overview of templates in use in A Wiki of Ice and Fire; these are only a subset, representing some of the most important and commonly used ones. If you feel that a template belongs on this page, do not hesitate to add it. For usage information, see the specific templates pages.

Templates

Linking

Template:Date	Adds link to "Years after Aegon's Landing" 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	Cite to a web page
Template:cite journal	cite to a journal

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Repeatedly used

Category:Infobox templates	Info boxes for characters, houses, etc.
Category:Family_trees	list of all the Family trees templates
Category:Navigational templates	list of all the Navigational 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Template:Outdated	Mark the page as outdated.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	mark that the page needs to be cleaned 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 to be merged with another.

Other

Template:Copyright tags

for stating copyright status for uploaded images and other files.

See also

• Category:Templates should cover all templates in the wiki, categorized into the various subcategories.
• See Help:Templates for some info on how templates work.