Help:About Templates

From NCAA College Football Information & Resource

Templates are markers that are usually seen at the beginning of an article. Articles that have templates usually have these kind of things on the page:

This is an Example! This template is an essential in this topic and more importantly... an example. Please read the whole article.

Therefore, we can say the templates are markers that give us an idea on the current status of an article. However, templates are not limited to status markers, because there is another kind of template that give information about the structure of the site - it is called a nav template. Since WikiCollegeFootball is still new, we encourage visitors to talk in the discussion page of this section and give ideas on how we could improve templates.

Contents 1 Putting a Template 2 Article Related Templates 3 Nav Templates 4 Status Templates 4.1 List of Usable Status Templates 5 Removing Templates

Putting a Template

Putting a template in an article is really easy, you just have to bear in mind the simple syntax:

   { { template name } }

and the template will appear. If the template appeared in red after you saved the article it means that it does not exist and is need of editing. But users are only allowed to create article related templates and nav templates, the creation of the status templates is solely limited to the administrators of this wiki - and granted that a body of WikiCollegeFootball editors agreed in creating one.

Article Related Templates

This kind of template is used in relation to an article. Lets say that you want to use a table over and over again in several articles and it would be a pain in the neck to create the same table over and over again. But because of a template, it would be a lot easier to put tables, graphs or whatever things that you like that is related to your article/articles.

Another kind of Article-Related Template is the infobox, they are quick information boxes usually found at the right side of the page. This kind of template is especially useful in putting informations about a team, a player, or a coach.

Here is a list of usable infoboxes available at WikiCollegeFootball:

• Player Infobox

{{NCAA Football Player|
| player_name=
| image=
| alternative_text=
| college=
| position=
| jersey_number=
| class=
| career_span=
| height=
| weight=
| nationality=
| birthday=
| birthplace=
| high_school=
| awards_honors=
| championships=
| bowl_games=
}}

• Team Infobox

{{NCAA Football Teams|
| team_name=
| team_logo=
| alternative_text=
| school_name=
| team_monicker=
| team_colors=
| coach=
| school_location=
| conference=
| division=
| stadium=
| mascot=
| website_link=
| website_name=
}}

• Coach Infobox

{{NCAA Football Coach|
| coach_name=
| image=
| alternative_text=
| title=
| college=
| team_record=
| career_span=
| nationality=
| birthday=
| birthplace=
| overall=
| bowl_games=
| awards_honors=
| championships=
| years=
| team=
| position=
| years_teams_position=
}}

Nav Templates

Nav templates simply indicate the links related to the page, a colletion of sub-topics in a bigger body of subject, or tells the user where he/she is right now. Here is an example of a nav template:

Big 12 Conference Football Teams
North Division	Colorado • Iowa State • Kansas • Kansas State • Missouri • Nebraska
South Division	Baylor • Oklahoma • Oklahoma State • Texas • Texas A&M • Texas Tech

Status Templates

These are the most common type of templates found in almost all wiki projects. As we said, it is a marker that indicates the status of the article. Here in WikiCollegeFootball, the number of usable templates that tells a status is still limited, thus we are asking your help to contribute and discuss things that regard the creation of new status templates. Dont be afraid to use our forums page and discussion page to voice out your opinions or suggestions.

But remember, only administrators that have been granted powers by editors (through suggestions and comments) have the right to create status templates.

List of Usable Status Templates

   { { expand } }

The article needs to be expanded This article covers an essential topic and is in need of expansion by contributing to WikiCollegeFootball. Please follow the guidelines in the Manual of Style and complete this article to the highest level of quality before continuing on smaller articles.

The template above tells that the article is need of expanding and editing.

   { { list incomplete } }

List Incomplete This article covers an essential topic and is in need of major additions and/or work. You can help WikiCollegeFootball by expanding this list.

The template above tells that the list is need of expanding.

   { { improvement } }

For further improvment This guideline covers an essential topic and is in need of major additions or cleanup. Please use and read the discussion page of this guideline to give comments and suggestions.

The template above tells that the guideline or page is in need of improvement deemed in a consensus of a body of users.

   { { merge } }

The article is reccommended for merging Two articles are found to be the same or covers the same topic. Please use the Search Utility to find the same article for comparison and refer to our Manual of Style before continuing this article.

This template flags articles that has been found to have similar contents with other articles, or two articles that exactly covers the same topic but having diffrent article names.

   { { warning } }

Warning This article contains vandalisms and may be subject for deletion after 3 days. Please follow the guidelines in the Manual of Style and complete this article to the highest level of quality before continuing on smaller articles.

for further information, please visit our vandalism guideline
The template above tells that the article contains vandalisms and may subject to deletion after 3 days without undergoing edits or revisions.

   { { subject for deletion } }

Subject for deletion This article is subject for deletion if not edited after 2 days. Please follow the guidelines in the Manual of Style and complete this article to the highest level of quality before continuing on smaller articles.

for further information please read our vandalism guidelines
The template above tells that the article contains vandalisms and may be deleted after 2 days without clearing it of vandalisms.

Removing Templates

Removing a template is very simple, just delete the template in the edit page and save the article. However, there are guidelines tha must be observed before removing a template:

• Anyone has the right to remove status templates, however, he/she must be sure that the article is complete and requires no major revision.
• In other cases, if a body of contrbutors and editors feel that the article at hand is finished and the comments in the discussion page agree then anyone can remove the status template.
• Regarding the removal of Article Related Templates and Nav Templates, not anyone can remove it without the permission of the creator of the page or the consensus of the people discussing the article.

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If anyone has suggestions please feel free to comment on the discussion page.

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