Help talk:A quick guide to templates

message: I would like to re-iterate Jerome's and Jim's comments.  I am trying to determine if a template to perform a certain task already exists.  I looked here and also at Help:Template and MediaWiki's Templates page for a list of existing templates.  I am thinking of something similar to Special:Categories -- I tried "Special:Templates", but received a "No such special page" message.  Does any means of searching existing templates exist?  (By the way, I am looking for a template for an information box that can be placed on an page for an individual that points to an entry for that individual's surname.  I realize that I may need to create such a beast.)--Rpclod (talk) 13:16, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Search or Special

message: Any objection to converting this page into a plain FAQ page and moving it into WP:FAQ/ space?--Kotniski (talk) 10:39, 31 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I am not sure what you mean by this. What is wrong with the way it is now? In puzzlement, GeorgeLouis (talk) 18:23, 29 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: FAQ?

message: I know I could just wade in and create a template in the main namespace but I don't feel terribly comfortable doing that straight off. Is there a way to create one in the sandbox or in my user space?--Alastair Rae (talk) 18:17, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: You can create one anywhere; for example you can create one at User:X/Sandbox, then transclude it with  (or substitute it with ). They are normally created not in the "main" namespace but in the "Template" namespace (but the Template: prefix can be omitted when transcluding or substing). In fact it won't do very much harm if you experiment in template namespace (as long as you don't change any existing heavily used templates).--Kotniski (talk) 07:37, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  sandboxing 

message: I'd like to find all the pages using the radar infobox? How to? Maury Markowitz (talk) 02:17, 17 July 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Go to Template:Infobox radar and then click "What links here" in the "Tools" section of the left sidebar. That gives a list of pages that use the template or mention the template. Then click "Hide links" at the top so that you are left with this list of pages that use ("transclude") the template. More at Help:What links here. -- John of Reading (talk) 06:03, 17 July 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Most useful, thanks! Maury Markowitz (talk) 12:54, 17 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Find all pages using a template? 

message: A little over a month ago I was told on a talk page: 
[Note: The MOS issues were resolved.]
 
Is there a policy concerning a minimum number of pages to justify a transcluded table? This editor has basically taken ownership of the amphetamine article and after this dispute he substituted every transcluded table, while "fixing" only the one I transcluded. The "...please do not re-add that content" feels like ownership and I am skeptical of the "no reason ... to transclude a table to 2 articles" remark. (It may belong in a few others.) Please help! — Box73 (talk) 10:51, 11 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Minimum number of articles to justify a template (table)? 

message: The page on Steve Bannon has a photo that makes him look less than the intelligence they this great man possessed. His mouth is kind of hanging open. Since there are about 100 great pics of him available to anyone, why should his page use a lesser pic? I want to change it but the page indicates being locked to prevent vandalism. Could the photo be locked to prevent someone from replacing it? That would not be preventive vandalism, but improvement. I realize that the Left exists by maliciously slandering Conservatives. That day should not prevent me from providing a better photo.
Keep in my that I had not used my Wikipedia account for over ten years. The last thing I did on here was to add some chemical equations to a page, and some other information providing. I could not sign in this time with my old username and password, which my name was Cheryle. Apparently someone else has my account name now. 
I don't know how this works anymore! If I'm going to write on here again I'll have to learn it all over again, or maybe anew. 
If someone has the ability to take the photo that I chose to replace the much less flattering pic of Steve Bannon, please let me know if you'll do that for me? Flufferstuff (talk) 05:47, 12 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  How to change a photo for a government employee's page. 

message: I wonder for a template, as its name can be changed over time, so how to identify all the names used by a template previously? Thanks! Bobo.03 (talk) 16:22, 25 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  QA: How to track all the names used by a template 

message: Hello.
I'm creating a Military Gear Infobox for the WikiProject Military history group. I got some good feedback in fixing this stuff. I'm going to have a template page set up, but I don't know where to start in terms of putting the template page first or the documentation page first. Ominae (talk) 14:17, 4 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Which template to start with? 

message: Sangeetha.rs (talk) 06:15, 15 August 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:04, 15 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 15 August 2018 

message: On a personal wiki, how to add a boilerplate automatically for a category of page (for instance: a dictionary)?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.91.51.235 (talk) 12:32, 17 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Automatic boilerplate 

message: Hi, I'd like to recreate a few English templates in the Galician Wiki, but I'm not sure how to go about it. Simply pasting the source doesn't seem to work. Is there any page that explains the process in detail? Thanks. Manudosde (talk) 12:12, 31 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Export to a different Wiki 

message: The FAQs read:  Why does it say 'usually', isn't the first letter always case-insensitive? Are there examples of templates that must be used with the correct case for the first letter, otherwise they won't work? --Deeday-UK (talk) 11:07, 26 March 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: @Paine Ellsworth, maybe you know the answer to this? --Deeday-UK (talk) 15:04, 29 March 2023 (UTC)
replies: text:  thank you for asking! That's explained a little more thoroughly on Meta-wiki: . I know of no templates on the English Wikipedia with case sensitivity of the first letter. Evidently there are other wikis where that is not true. Hope this helps and thanks again! P.I. Ellsworth , ed. put'er there 19:49, 29 March 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Great, thanks. I'll clarify the FAQs to remove the vagueness (I see it's already sorted). --Deeday-UK (talk) 21:36, 29 March 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Pleasure! Yes, I'm kinda "old school" on stuff like this. It's like companys' ratings based upon letters they receive. One letter has the weight of maybe 100, or even 1000 or more, opinions, because they figure that if one person writes with a problem, hundreds more have the same problem but don't write in for whatever reason. For me, if an editor notices a problem and notifies me, then it means that something needs to be fixed or clarified. Again, it's my pleasure to be of some help! P.I. Ellsworth , ed. put'er there 22:01, 29 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  First letter "usually" case-insensitive? 

message: The FAQ has a wrong list of browser shortcuts to WP:BYPASS the browser cache. It's an easy fix but I am not a confirmed user.  LevitatingBusinessMan (talk) 23:46, 25 April 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: this is not the right page to request additional user rights. You may reopen this request with the specific changes to be made and someone may add them for you, or if you have an account, you can wait until you are autoconfirmed and edit the page yourself. Tollens (talk) 01:27, 26 April 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I think I was fairly specific with what changes should've been made and was not requesting additional user rights at all... However I've been autoconfirmed so made the edit myself. LevitatingBusinessMan (talk) 12:26, 26 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clearing the browser cache. 

message: Can someone have a look at Template:Onam greetings and it's documentation and suggest any edits before the upcoming Onam day next week? Thanks. The Herald (Benison) (talk) 04:25, 26 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Onam greetings