Wikipedia:WikiProject Inline Templates
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Welcome to WikiProject Inline Templates. This collaboration is dedicated to improving Wikipedia's inline
Note that "inline" is used here in the sense of "within text" rather than "directly from another server".
Purpose
Description
- A project to centralize the creation and management of superscript templates such as {{Citation needed}}.
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 an ITfD mechanism, the way SfDmechanism
- 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 {{Clarify me}}
- 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
- Not formatting-and-function or typing-aid templates that happen to be used inline in article text but are essentially invisible to the user.
See archives of Template talk:Citation needed 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 discussiondebates 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, please add it to the "New inline templates" section below, so that it can be processed (checked for proper categorization, etc.)
- ‡ = Only part of it is superscripted.
- ‡‡ = Has a non-superscripted mode as well.
- ‡‡‡ = Only part of it is inline.
Superscripted:
- {{who says}} and several others ⇒[according to whom?]
- {{anachronism inline}} ⇒[anachronism]
- {{attrib}} & many others (after many merges) ⇒[attribution needed]
- {{awk}} ⇒[needs copy edit]
- {{by whom}} – a grammatical variant of {{who}}, a.k.a. several others ⇒[by whom?]
- {{citation broken}} ⇒[full citation needed]
- {{uncited}}, etc.; ⇒[citation needed]
- {{cite quote}} ⇒[This quote needs a citation]
- {{clarifyref2}} – subst'd variants that provide a]
|reason=
that describe how to provides better reference citations ⇒[clarification needed - {{contradict inline}} (should probably be merged with the next one) ⇒[contradictory]
- {{contradiction inline}} (should probably be merged with the previous one) ⇒[contradictory]
- {{dead link}} ⇒[dead link]
- {{dn}} ⇒[disambiguation needed]
- {{debatable}} ⇒[disputed]
- {{DisputedAssertion}} ⇒[dubious]
- {{elucidate}} ⇒[further explanation needed]
- {{episode}} ⇒[episode needed]
- {{failed verification}} ⇒[failed verification]
- {{unbalanced opinion?]
- {{MEDCN}} ⇒[medical citation needed]
- {{MEDRS}} ⇒[unreliable medical source?]
- {{non sequitur}}
- {{nonspecific}} ⇒[not specific enough to verify]
- {{note}}
- {{note label}}‡
- {{or?}} ⇒[original research?]
- {{pagenumber}} ⇒[page needed]
- {{]
- {{primary source inline}}, for signalling that a non-primary source is needed ⇒[non-primary source needed]
- {{ref}} ⇒[1]
- {{footnote label}}
- {{registration required}} ⇒(registration required)
- {{quote request}} ⇒[need quotation to verify]
- {{rp}}
- {{episodeneeded}} ⇒[season and episode needed]
- {{specify}} ⇒[specify]
- {{syn}} ⇒[improper synthesis?]
- {{technical statement}}, etc.
- {{rs}} ⇒[unreliable source?]
- {{old fact}}, ⇒[needs update]
- {{vague}} ⇒[vague]
- {{verification needed}} ⇒[verification needed]
- {{issue}} ⇒[volume & issue needed]
- {{weasel words]
- {{where}} ⇒[where?]
- {{weasel-name}}, ⇒[who?]
- {{who2}} – variant of {{non sequitur}}
- {{year}} ⇒[year needed]
Meta-templates:
- {{fix}}‡ — used to create other such templates, consistently
Deprecated (no longer used):
Noteworthy for features:
- {{vague}} — has feature where optional parameter becomes the mouseover/tooltip message
Needed:
- {{}} already used for something else)
Related software functions in
- <ref ...>...</ref>
- <ref ... />
- <references />
Non-superscripted:
- {{as of}}
- {{ec}} ⇒ (edit conflict)
- {{harvard citation}}
- {{TBD}} ⇒ [to be determined]
- {{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).
- {{ul}}, etc.
- {{
- {{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.
- {{sectstub}}‡ (recently converted to inline style, but not actually used inline)
- {{hcard-bday}} – 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
- {{issue}} is entirely comic-books-specific (according to the doc page however the template itself is completely generic except for the category it adds).
- {{citation needed}} and {{request_quotation}} – should the latter be merged into the former?
- {{cref}}, {{cnote}}‡ — possible duplication with {{ref}}
- {{comic book reference}} — may have a stray period-space in it near end (flagged with HTML comment; needs testing)
- {{discussion here
- Cite.php's <references /> — indents for no reason, and worse yet indents to a depth that does not align with the}} to conform.
:*
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
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 unnecessarily 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
- {{AI-generated inline}}. Created December 2023 as an inline version of {{AI-generated}}. For text that was potentially generated by AI language models. ⇒[AI-generated?]
- {{globalize-inline}}. Created July 2020 as an inline version of the 2004 banner template. For individual statements that are inappropriately geographically restricted in viewpoint, and show inappropriate geographic bias.
- {{is this date calibrated?}}. Created August 2018 to identify radiocarbon dates for which it is not clear whether a calibration procedure has been applied, leading to ambiguities of up to 4000 years.
- {{self-sourcing examples.
- {{contentious label]
- {{cite quote}} (often it's the transcription or the contextual excision that needs examination, not whether source can be verified). ⇒[verify]
- {{obsolete source]
- {{expand acronym}}. Created in August 2010, to flag acronyms and abbreviations. ⇒[expand acronym]
- {{transliteration needed}}, an inline template requesting a romanized transliteration or transcription. ⇒[romanization needed]
- {{needs IPA}}. inline template for requesting IPA renderings. ⇒[needs IPA]
- {{undue weight issues. ⇒[undue weight?]
- {{speculation inline}} – inline variant of {{speculation}} ⇒[speculation?]
Discovered
- {{Citation needed (lead)}} ⇒[not verified in body]
- {{Citation needed span}}
- {{peacock term}} ⇒[peacock prose]
- {{notability-inline}} which now give an error, and {{notability?}} which now goes to the banner {{Notability}})
- {{DjVulink}}
- {{tps}} ⇒(talk page stalker)
- {{full}} – requests full citation ⇒ [full citation needed]
- {{attribution needed}} – needs documentation and other WPILTizing ⇒[attribution needed]
- {{editorializing]
- {{editorialising]
- {{registration required}} – adds a note that registration is required to access the contents of a link. ⇒(registration required)
- {{scientific citation needed]
- {{unreliable scientific source?]
- {{subscription required}} – adds a note that subscription is required to access the contents of a link. ⇒(subscription required)
- {{R}} – a wrapper around <ref name="..." />
- {{As written}} – wraps an intentional typo. For example, this is used on the Celsiuspage to show examples of bad formatting of temperatures.
- {{pronunciation needed}} – slightly wordy request for pronunciation info. ⇒[pronunciation?]
- {{archive inline}}
- {{swatch inline}}
- {{off-topic-inline}} ⇒[relevant?]
- {{self-published inline}} ⇒[self-published source?]
- {{linkspam}} ⇒[spam link?]
- {{example needed]
- {{example needed]
- {{Pronunciation}}
- {{coord/display/inline}} – one of several subroutines of {{coord}}
- {{zh}} – Use this template to show a Chinese name, word, term or phrase in a line of text with various readings.
- {{ISBN missing}} – an in-line request for the ISBN of a published source. Similar in use to {{Year missing}} and {{Page needed}}, etc. ⇒[ISBN missing]
- {{Circular ref}} ⇒[circular reference]
- {{Quantify}} ⇒[quantify]
- {{Link note}} ⇒()
- {{Password-protected}} ⇒(password-protected)
- {{Subscription or libraries}} ⇒(subscription may be required or content may be available in libraries)
- {{Subscription or membership required}} ⇒(Subscription or UK public library membership required)
- {{Closed access}} ⇒
- {{Open access}} ⇒
- {{KIA}} ⇒ †
- {{DOW}} ⇒ (DOW)
- {{Executed}} ⇒
- {{POW}} ⇒ (POW)
- {{Surrendered}} ⇒
- {{WIA}} ⇒ (WIA)
Deleted
- {{click}}
- {{WP:NOTLINK. (Template deleted September 12, 2011)
- {{Fact-now}} – pointless wrapper for
{{Citation needed|date=April 2024}}
- {{Inline warning}} — used manually to provide a custom cleanup note
- {{waybackdate}}
- {{}})
- {{inote}}
- {{hcard-geo}} and {{hcard-geo-title}}
- {{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).
- {{waybackdate}}
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
Resources
- Wikipedia:Avoid self-references
- Category:Wikipedia maintenance templates