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{{TOCright}} When writing for the wiki, there are multiple [[:Category:Templates|templates]] that are used frequently to:

* Share large amounts of repetitive information that may need to be included on many articles (e.g. [[Template:Material Gear Difficulty Modifier]])
* Provide a form for individuals to add information to in order to ensure consistency across articles and create organization (e.g. [[Help:Item scripts]]) - this can be broken down into infoboxes (e.g. [[Template:Player System Manager]]) and navigational boxes (e.g. [[Template:Nearlevel]]) as well
* Deliver a warning or notice (e.g. [[Template:Official-document]])
* Provide style (e.g. [[Template:Boldmono]])
* Provide information about editing (e.g. [[Template:Work-in-progress]])

Templates are stand-alone pages in the [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Namespaces#Template template namespace] which can be transcluded (embedded) into other pages by bracketing the template name in curly brackets: {{boldmono| {{ }} }}. Some will automatically categorize the article within which the template has been embedded for increased organization on the wiki.

For more information on templates, please visit the [[Help:Getting_Started#Templates|Getting Started article]].

==Finding Templates==

In order to find templates:

* Go to the [[:Category:Templates|Templates category]] and begin to browse the different subcategories as listed in the informational list.
* Open up the [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:View_source "View source"] tab on the top right of the wiki article and find any part of the page that has text within two opening and closing curly brackets: {{boldmono| {{ }} }}. Then, navigate to <nowiki>https://gswiki.play.net/Template:</nowiki> where after the colon you place the text from within the curly brackets. For example: <nowiki>https://gswiki.play.net/Template:Boldmono</nowiki>.

==Common Templates==

Below are some of the most common templates used on our wiki. In situations where a help page exists, that page is linked instead of the template itself.

===Repetitive Information===

* [[Template:Material Gear Difficulty Modifier]]
* [[Template:Other Gear Difficulty Modifier]]
* [[Template:Script Gear Difficulty Modifier]]

===Forms===

* [[Template:Creative-work]] - player-written creative works such as short stories, poems, songs, and essays
* [[Help:Item scripts]]

====Infoboxes====

* [[Help:Creatures]]
* [[Help:Character pages#Character Template]] - character profile template
* [[Template:Merchants]]
* [[Help:Player System Manager]]
* [[Help:Storyline NPCs]]
* [[Template:Townnpc]]

====Navigational Boxes or Information====

* [[Template:TOCright]]
* [[Template:Top]]

===Warning/Notices===

* [[Template:Deprecated]]
* [[Template:Not-yet-implemented]]
* [[Template:Official-document]] - used by staff to denote something is an official document
* [[Template:Spoiler]]

===Style===

* [[Template:Boldmono]] - used to enclose verb syntax so that it is easily recognizable
* [[Template:Equation box]]
* [[Template:Log2]] - used to wrap text that came from the game itself
* [[Template:Log3]] - used to wrap NPC appearance
* [[Template:Mono]] - used to enclose mechanical formula and other numerical information that isn't long enough to need a separate template
* [[Template:Prettytable]]
* [[Template:RoomDescription]]
* [[Template:Saved-discord-post]]
* [[Template:Saved-post]]
* [[Template:Smallcaps]] - used in a lot of spell lists

===Editing===

* [[Template:Addmetext]] - adds a line of text for where more information needs added later
* [[Template:Disambiguous]]
* [[Template: Stub]]
* [[Template:Work-in-progress]]

==See Also==

* [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Templates MediaWiki Template Help]

Gswiki:Style guide/Common templates - Revision history

GS4-XERAPHINA: GS4-XERAPHINA moved page Help:Common templates to Gswiki:Style guide/Common templates: moving to subpage to Gswiki:Style guide

MOD-GSMOTTE: MOD-GSMOTTE moved page Help:Common Templates to Help:Common templates: Moved per wiki rules on article titles.

MOD-GSMOTTE: Added category.

MOD-GSMOTTE: Please feel free to make this help page better.