The pages listed in this category are templates.
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Further template category notes
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{{Template category}}
should be placed at the top of categories that contain template pages and their related subcategories. This template populates Category:Wikipedia template categories.
Usage
Syntax
- Basic
{{Template category
|description=
}}
- Basic topical
No type | Navbox | Sidebar | Stub |
---|---|---|---|
{{Template category
|topic=
}} |
{{Template category
|type=navbox
|topic=
}} |
{{Template category
|type=sidebar
|topic=
}} |
{{Template category
|type=stub
|topic=
}} |
- Full
{{Template category
| onright =
| type =
| container =
| topic =
| description =
| ALTTEXT =
| help =
}}
Parameters and examples
The template may be used without any parameters.
With no parameters
The following, however, may be used to make the template more informative:
onright
- Use onright (or rhs) to place right-aligned boxes beside the template such as {{Portal}} (to provide link/s to related portal/s), {{Commons category}} (to provide a link to the same or a similarly-named Commons category), etc. If more than one box is included, ensure the widest one appears first (see example below) otherwise overlapping may occur.
topic, onright
type
- Setting type to one of the following values adds a preset note as to which type of template the category (but not necessarily its subcategories) is meant to contain. The values are:
- ambox
- campaignbox
- (category header
- category heading
- catheader
- cat header
- cathead)
- conversion
- external link
- formatting
- function
- infobox
message- meta
- module
- (navigation
- navigational
- navbox)
- sidebar
- stub
- sub
- timeline
- (user
- userbox)
- If type is set to something other than one of these values, the default "The pages listed in this category are templates" note appears unmodified.
type alone
container
- Set container as true, yes, etc. to identify the category as a container category, i.e. a category meant to contain only subcategories. A note requesting that no templates are added to the template category is then included. The category is automatically added to Category:Container categories.
container alone
- An alternative to using container is to place {{Container category}} after the {{Template category}} template:
Template:Braces following Template:Braces
topic
- Use topic to add a default description ending "...relating to topic", where topic is usually a wikilink to the main article associated with the category (e.g. United States for the Category:United States templates).
topic alone
type, topic
description
- Use description if a customised description is needed instead of – or, if topic also used, to follow – the default description above.
type, topic, description
description alone
help
- Use help to replace the instructions on adding a template to the category (second paragraph of the "Further template category notes" section):
replace help text
- To omit the default instructions, set help to no:
omit help text
Tracking category
Uses with a topic or description parameter are tracked:
TemplateData
This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. See a monthly parameter usage report for Template:Template category in articles based on its TemplateData.
TemplateData for Template category
This template is used as a header for category pages that contain templates.
Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
---|---|---|---|---|
onright | onright rhs | no description | Unknown | optional |
type | type | no description | Unknown | optional |
container | container | no description | Unknown | optional |
topic | topic | no description | Unknown | optional |
description | description 1 | no description | Unknown | optional |
ALTTEXT | ALTTEXT | no description | Unknown | optional |
help | help 2 | no description | Unknown | optional |
category | category | no description | Unknown | optional |