Category talk:Wikipedia templates

message: Where is a good wikipedia page that discusses the differences between wikipedia templates, wikipedia categories, categories of templates, and templates for categories?  Mathiastck 00:37, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Take a look at WP:CLN for the first two. The top level category for templates is at :Category:Wikipedia templates; but :Category:Wikipedia templates by topic may be more what you're looking for. The templates used in categories are :Category:Category namespace templates. Happy editing! RevelationDirect (talk) 02:13, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
replies: text:  Thank you for this swift response! ;) Mathiastck (talk) 23:21, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Categories versus templates 

message: Is there a template that I can use that when placed on a page converts into the atricles name? for instance if I put (an example) it would automatically convert into the name of the article which it's placed on? Does such a thing exist? Wikidudeman (talk) 19:15, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It's a magic word: . —Ms2ger (talk) 19:16, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Concerning a template I want to find 

message: I have  an entire section which was recently added. Category pages are not the proper place for text like this, which would have been better placed on a Help: or WIkipedia: page. Furthermore, I don't believe that it respects WP:NPOV. --Redrose64 (talk) 13:10, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Section removed 

message: *http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Wikipedia_templates&action=history
*http://be.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Катэгорыя:Вікіпедыя:Шаблоны&action=history
*In other wikis - the same.--Амба (talk) 00:51, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Some strange edits

message: :Category:Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Naval Historical Center, which is within the scope of this WikiProject, has been nominated for deletion. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. RevelationDirect (talk) 03:03, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Category:Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Naval Historical Center

message: I haven't been able to figure this out in a few minutes, maybe somebody else already knows the trick to work around this problem?
A trailing colon in the URL of a hyperlink works reasonably-well in most web browsers, but when copying-and-pasting the URL to non-browser areas (i.e. via Skype) the trailing colon is not treated as part of the clickable hyperlink and the link potentially becomes invalid, as in the case found on this page. I attempted to correct for this by the following change:
Special:Allpages/Template:
changed to:
Special:Allpages/Template%3A
However, despite accepting the revision the Wikipedia server appears to automatically translate the encoded %3A back into a colon again when the HTML is rendered to the browser.
What is the correct way, within Wiki markup, to escape the colon so that the %3A escape sequence is passed to the browser, even within the URL of a hyperlink? Thanks. --RiskNerd (talk) 02:16, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Trailing colon in URL, how to escape in Wikipedia Markup so that [[Special:Allpages/Template%3A]] becomes hyperlink that includes URL escape %3A instead of trailing colon? 

message: I just added the following informational notice to this category's page.
thanks.  ---Sm8900 (talk) 🌍 06:39, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Added an informational notice