Help:Templates

What's a Template?
A template on Halopedia is a preset chunk of coding used on Halopedia that denotes a page's certain attrbute. What does that mean? For example, if an article is poorly written in terms of grammar, the template known as (see below) can be inserted into the page of the page. When is inserted into the top of the grammar-proofreading-needing article, when the page is saved, the following will show up:

When Halopedia editors come across this page, they should try to edit the article and look for grammar errors. After the person who placed the template is satisfied that the article has been cleaned up, then the line of code will be removed.

To insert a template, you'll have to find or create a template. All used templates are displayed below, and help can be recieved in order to create a template. The code that inserts a template into an article is always between double curly brackets -. However, if you wanted to see the original template to edit it, you have to type in Template: Template Name Here into the search box.

What kinds of templates can you expect to find? You'll normally find them marking stubs, pages requiring cleanup, exceptional articles, and sometimes, like, doing some other features.

Cleanup
For overall cleanup - Template:Cleanup, displays as when  is added at the top of a page that needs overall cleanup - errors in grammar, material, introduction, or other.

For grammar cleanup - Template:Grammar, displays as when  is added at the top of a page that specifically needs grammar proofreading

For factual content cleanup - Template:FactOrFiction, displays as when  is added at the top of a page that specifically needs fact-checking

For an article needing renaming - Template:ArticleName, displays as when  is added at the top of a page that needs renaming

Stub
For an article stub - Template:Stub, displays as when  is added at the bottom of a short insufficient page

For a starship stub - Template:Stub-Starship, displays as when  is added at the top of a page that is a starship stub

Other
For leaving messages on talk pages - Template:TalkAddNewMsg, displays as when  is added to the top of a talk page

For unsigned comments - Template:Unsigned, displays as when  is added behind an unsigned comment

Exceptional Article
For an exceptional article - Template:ExceptionalArticle, displays as when  is added at the top of a page that is exceptionally written

Ages
Used when wanting to display the Covenant History or "Ages"

Delete
Used when wanting to suggest an article for deletion.

Flood
Used at the bottom of articles that describe the various Flood forms.