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This is a WikiProject, a collaboration area and open group of editors dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of a particular topic, or to organizing some internal Wikipedia process. Please see the Guide to WikiProjects and the Directory of WikiProjects for more information. |
Welcome to WikiProject Inline Templates. Some Wikipedians have formed this collaboration resource and group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's inline neutrality- & attribution-cleanup, dispute, and footnote templates. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions and various resources; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians interested in the topic. If you would like to help, please join the project, inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list below.
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Purpose
Description
- A project to centralize the creation and management of inline superscript templates such as {{Fact}}.
Goals
- Protect templates from well-meaning reformatting attempts that are known to cause problems in various browsers
- Develop a "meta-template" from which all of these templates are derived, so that layout problems with them can be fixed in one place
- Ensure consistency between all of these templates, as to their formatting, naming, content and mouseover (tooltip) messages
- Provide a talk forum for discussion of problems with the templates, or other needs with regard to them
- Provide a proposals area for the organized creation of new templates of this sort instead of today's random creation of often redundant inline templates
- Possibly provide a ITfD mechanism, the way WikiProject Stub sorting has provided the SfD mechanism
- Actually identify and categorize all of the templates of this sort
- Ensure that the Template messages documentation is updated with regard to these templates
- Write a guide to their usage (possibly stand-alone, or possibly as part of the MoS
- Improve each template's documentation
Scope
- Inline superscripted cleanup and dispute templates such as {{Fact}} and {{Clarifyme}}
- Reference citation inline templates such as the {{Ref}} and {{Note}} family of templates
- Recommendations on improvements to Cite.php-style reference citation mechanism (<ref ...>...</ref>, <ref ... />, and <references />)
- Possible scope expansion into other inline templates such as the {{tl}} family of templates
See Template talk:Fact for some reasons why this project is needed.
Guidelines
- Discuss ideas for new inline templates here before creating them, to avoid template overlap and Templates for deletion debates later.
- Discuss changes to inline templates here before making them, to prevent inconsistency, browser incompatibility, and usability/accessibility problems.
- Inline templates, where possible, should be built on the {{fix}} metatemplate, not coded from scratch, for maintainability.
Open tasks
 To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Inline Templates: |
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List of inline templates
If you discover a "new" inline template, no matter how old it is,
- ‡ = Only part of it is superscripted.
- ‡‡ = Has a non-superscripted mode as well.
- ‡‡‡ = Only part of it is inline.
- Superscripted
- {{ambiguous link}} a.k.a. {{dn}}
- {{by whom}} – a grammatical variant of {{who}}, a.k.a. {{says who}} & several others
- {{citation broken}}
- {{citequote}}
- {{clarifyme}} a.k.a. {{huh}}, {{what}}, {{unclear}}
- {{dead link}} a.k.a. {{cleanup-link}}
- {{disputed-inline}}, a.k.a. {{disputable}}, {{debatable}}
- {{dubious}} a.k.a. {{DisputedAssertion}}
- {{ent}}‡
- {{episode}}
- {{fact}} a.k.a. {{citation needed}}, {{cn}}, {{needs citation}}, {{uncited}}, {{fct}}, etc.; see also {{fact-now}} wrapper
- {{facts}}
- {{failed verification}}
- {{fixPOV}}
- {{issue}}
- {{list fact}}
- {{lopsided}}
- {{nonspecific}}
- {{note}}
- {{note label}}‡
- {{or}} — not to be confused with {{OR}}, a page-top template
- {{page number}}
- {{POV-assertion}}
- {{POV-statement}}
- {{ref}}
- {{ref harv}}
- {{ref label}}‡ a.k.a. {{footnote label}}
- {{request quotation}} a.k.a. {{request quote}}, {{quote request}}
- {{rf}}
- {{rp}}
- {{specify}}
- {{syn}}
- {{update after}}‡‡ a.k.a. {{update needed}}, {{old fact}}, {{anachronism-inline}}
- {{vague}}
- {{verify credibility}} a.k.a. {{vc}}, {{rs}}
- {{verify source}} a.k.a. {{verification needed}}
- {{weasel-inline}} a.k.a. {{weasel word}}, {{weasel-word}} & others
- {{where}}
- {{who}} a.k.a. {{who?}}, {{weasel-name}}, {{views needing attribution}}, {{attrib}} & many others (after many merges)
- {{year}}
Meta-templates:
- {{fix}}‡ a.k.a. {{fix-inline}} — used to create other such templates, consistently
- {{inline warning}} — used manually to provide a custom cleanup note
Deprecated (no longer used):
- {{cref}}, {{hcref}}, {{cnote}} (use Cite.php or {{ref}}/{{note}})
- {{dlw}} (redundant with and replaced by {{waybackdate}})
- {{dlw-inline}} (redundant with and replaced by {{dead link}})
- {{footnote}} (use Cite.php or {{ref}}/{{note}})
- {{ref num}} (use Cite.php or {{ref}}/{{note}})
- {{rf}}, {{ent}}‡ (use Cite.php or {{ref}}/{{note}})
- {{wikiref}}, {{wikicite}} (non-superscripted; use Cite.php or {{ref}}/{{note}})
Noteworthy for features:
- {{vague}} — has feature where optional parameter becomes the mouseover/tooltip message
Needed:
- {{daymonth}} (for missing day, e.g. November 2006 when not appropriate), to go along with {{fulldate}} and {{year}} ({{date}} and {{day}} already used for something else)
- {{seasonneeded}} to go along with {{episode}} ({{season}} already used for something else)
- {{volumeneeded}} to go along with {{issue}} ({{volume}} already used for something else)
- Related software functions in Cite.php that aren't templates
- <ref ...>...</ref>
- <ref ... />
- <references />
- Non-superscripted
- {{as of}}
- {{ec}}
- {{ref harvard}}
- {{TBD}}
- {{wayback}}, {{waybackdate}} (appear to be redundant with each other)
- {{wikiref}}, {{wikicite}} (deprecated; see above)
- Similar but out-of-scope (for now?)
A number of templates are, technically, used inline, but for purposes very different from those that concern this project (at present).
- {{tl}}, {{tlx}}, {{cl}}, {{ul}}, etc.
- {{sort}}, {{nts}}, {{TBA}}, etc.
- {{day}} and the like; DAB and other hatnote templates; {{seealso}}/{{further}}/{{main}}/{{catmore}} and other self-ref tags; numerous source citation shortcut templates such as {{Shamos 1999}}; numerous other shortcut templates such as {{wc}}, {{cuegloss}}, etc.; language formatting templates; and others that are technically "inline" but don't have anything to do with maintenance or sources, and are not superscripted.
- {{inote}}
- {{sectstub}}‡ (recently converted to inline style, but not actually used inline)
- {{hcard-bday}}, {{hcard-geo}}, {{hcard-geo-title}}‡‡‡ - technically inline or part-inline, but do not serve functions similar to the templates this project is concerned about.
- {{cite}} family of ref. citation formatting templates
Problematic ones
- {{fact}} and {{Request_quotation}} - should the latter be merged into the former?
- {{cref}}, {{hcref}}, {{cnote}}‡ — ugly/weird format looks like nothing else on WP; mouseover function of {{hcref}} appears to be broken, at least in Safari
- {{comic book reference}} — may have a stray period-space in it near end (flagged with HTML comment; needs testing)
- {{who}}, {{who?}}, {{WW}}, {{weasel-inline}}, {{weasel-name}}, {{views needing attribution}}, and userspaced variant {{User:Xiaphias/who}} may need to be merged; discussion here
- Cite.php's <references /> — indents for no reason, and worse yet indents to a depth that does not align with the
:*indentation used by {{note label}} references. There are a pair of templates, {{refbegin}} and {{refend}}, related to {{reflist}}, which solve this misalignment problem, to an extent (see "Option 3..." at Template:Refbegin documentation for usage), in that they match the <references /> indentation. They are untested with {{note label}}, but work fine with "* Reference details here"-style manually-added general sources in the References section. Recommendation: Have developers modify <references /> to not indent, or at worst to match ":"-level indentation, and modify {{refbegin}} and {{refend}} to conform.
Apparently resolved
- {{rf}}, {{ent}}‡ — do not match the formatting of other footnotes (no brackets); both totally undocumented
- ✓ Done - sort of. I added a smidge of documentation, but I suggest that these get marked as deprecated, and phased out. it's not a very versatile system.
- ✓ Done {{disputed-inline}} may need to merge into {{dubious}}; both are merge tagged, with discussion here.
- ✓ Done {{wayback}}, {{waybackdate}} are flagged for merge.
New inline templates
Please feel free to list new inline templates here (newest at the top, please). It is advisable to propose new inline templates at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Inline Templates before creating them, so as to ensure that there is consensus that they are needed and will not unneccessarily overlap in function with others. Once templates have been checked for standard {{Fix}} usage, categorization in Category:Inline templates, and other issues, they should be moved to the main list, above.
- Created
- {{InlineXbeg}} and {{InlineXend}} – created in June 2008, in response to an inline template talk page discussion, here. a pair of templates designed to mark extended passages for attention with only a single tag at the end (avoiding chopping text to pieces).
- {{WW}} – Created by hbdragon88 who did not know about {{weasel-inline}} at the time; merge being discussed.
- {{who?}} – Created by User:Danielfolsom to ostensibly return to original purpose, but dubious difference and a good merge candidate.
- Discovered
- {{click-inline}}
- {{archive-inline}}
- {{swatch-inline}}
- {{coord/display/inline}} — one of several subroutines of {{coord}}
- {{off-topic-inline}}
- {{Chinese-inline}} - Use this template to show a Chinese name, word, term or phrase in a line of text with various readings.
- Note: Some of these likely should be deleted/merged.
Internal templates for this WikiProject
Talk page banner
- {{WPILT banner}} - "This template is within the scope of WikiProject Inline Templates …"
Userbox
- {{User WPILT}}
Categories
- Internal
Participants
Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.
- — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 01:05, 14 April 2007 (UTC) (Consistency, browser compatibility, correct WP categorization, proper documentation)
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- -- Pomte (talk · contribs) 05:34, 23 April 2007 (UTC) (discussion, documentation)
- -- Random832 02:33, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
- -- Xiaphias 05:01, 8 May 2007 (UTC) (same as Snowolf; distracting or overly-vague tags aren't helpful)
- -- danielfolsom 18:47, 26 July 2007 (UTC) (Consistency, clean up)
- -- User:Ludwigs2 23:27, 22 August 2008 (UTC) (general handiwork)
