Commons:Templates

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Templates are used to add recurring messages to pages in a consistent way, to create navigational boxes and to provide cross-language portability of texts. The content of a template can be added to a page by typing {{templatename}}. The first character (only) is not case-sensitive, so {{Stitch}} and {{Stitch}} are the same.

In the article namespace, templates exist only to help readers. These can include navigation aids, or warnings that content is sub-standard. Templates that provide information only of service to editors belong on an article's talk page. (Wikicommons articles are also known as galleries.)

If you wish to experiment with templates, you may do so in the Commons:Sandbox.

Related pages for specific types of templates
- Commons:Templates for galleries - language codes, meant to visually improve the gallery(article) pages.
- Commons:Image copyright tags and Commons:Image copyright tags visual
- Commons:Babel - language levels for user pages

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{{Usercomment}} Edit Talk Links	Welcome to my talk page. Please sign and date your entries by inserting ~~~~* at the end.* Start a new talk topic. Deutsch ∙ English ∙ français ∙ magyar ∙ 日本語 ∙ 한국어 ∙ македонски ∙ português do Brasil ∙ русский ∙ Tiếng Việt ∙ +/−
{{Toppostusertalk}} Edit Talk Links	Please post new messages to the top of my talk page. Please use headlines when starting new talk topics. Thank you. Start a new talk topic. English \| français \| +/−
{{Bottompostusertalk}} Edit Talk Links	Please post new messages to the bottom of my talk page. Please use headlines when starting new talk topics. Thank you. Start a new talk topic. Deutsch \| English \| français \| magyar \| svenska \| македонски \| русский \| العربية \| 中文 \| 日本語 \| +/−
{{Please link images}} Edit Talk Links	Tip: Categorizing images Afrikaans ∙ العربية ∙ беларуская (тарашкевіца) ∙ বাংলা ∙ català ∙ čeština ∙ dansk ∙ Deutsch ∙ Deutsch (Sie-Form) ∙ Ελληνικά ∙ English ∙ Esperanto ∙ español ∙ فارسی ∙ suomi ∙ français ∙ galego ∙ עברית ∙ magyar ∙ íslenska ∙ italiano ∙ 日本語 ∙ ქართული ∙ 한국어 ∙ македонски ∙ മലയാളം ∙ norsk bokmål ∙ Plattdüütsch ∙ Nederlands ∙ norsk ∙ polski ∙ português ∙ português do Brasil ∙ română ∙ русский ∙ sicilianu ∙ slovenčina ∙ slovenščina ∙ српски / srpski ∙ svenska ∙ Türkçe ∙ українська ∙ Tiếng Việt ∙ 中文（简体）‎ ∙ 中文（繁體）‎ ∙ +/− Hello, Templates! Tip: Add categories to your files Thanks a lot for contributing to the Wikimedia Commons! Here's a tip to make your uploads more useful: Why not add some categories to describe them? This will help more people to find and use them. Here's how: 1) If you're using the UploadWizard, you can add categories to each file when you describe it. Just click "more options" for the file and add the categories which make sense: 2) You can also pick the file from your list of uploads, edit the file description page, and manually add the category code at the end of the page. `[[Category:Category name]]` For example, if you are uploading a diagram showing the orbits of comets, you add the following code: `[[Category:Astronomical diagrams]]` `[[Category:Comets]]` This will make the diagram show up in the categories "Astronomical diagrams" and "Comets". When picking categories, try to choose a specific category ("Astronomical diagrams") over a generic one ("Illustrations"). Thanks again for your uploads! More information about categorization can be found in Commons:Categories, and don't hesitate to leave a note on the help desk.
{{Please tag images}} Edit Talk Links	Please tag your images català ∙ čeština ∙ dansk ∙ Deutsch ∙ English ∙ español ∙ Esperanto ∙ français ∙ galego ∙ italiano ∙ lietuvių ∙ magyar ∙ Nederlands ∙ norsk bokmål ∙ português ∙ polski ∙ sicilianu ∙ slovenčina ∙ slovenščina ∙ suomi ∙ Tiếng Việt ∙ Ελληνικά ∙ македонски ∙ русский ∙ українська ∙ հայերեն ∙ 한국어 ∙ 日本語 ∙ 中文（简体） ∙ 中文（繁體） ∙ עברית ∙ فارسی ∙ +/− Thank you for providing images to Wikimedia Commons. Please keep in mind that images and other files on Commons must be under a free license and should be useful to the Wikimedia projects. To allow others to use your files, some additional information must be given on the description page. Most importantly: Describe what it is about in a short sentence. (What does the image show?) State the author and the date of creation. If you made it yourself, say so explicitly. If it is from another Wikimedia user, link to the person's local user page. Best to use CommonsHelper. If you did not create the file yourself, state the source you got it from. Add a copyright tag - images without an appropriate license tag will be deleted. Add the image to one or more gallery pages and/or appropriate categories, so it can be found by others. To find out where an image belongs, you can use CommonsSense. If you copied the file from another wiki, please copy all information given there and say who uploaded it to that wiki. Use CommonsHelper. It is recommended to use Template:Information to put that information on the description page. Have a look at Template talk:Information for details of the use of this template. You can edit the description page and change the text. Uploading a new version of the file does not change the description of the file. Please add as much information as possible. If there is not sufficient information, the file may have to be deleted. For more information, follow the Commons:First steps guide. If you need help or have questions, please ask at the Help desk. Thank you.

Commons:Templates

Category pages

Deletion

Image description pages

Maintenance

Multimedia

Talk pages

User talk pages

Tip: Categorizing images

Please tag your images

Sister projects

Other/general

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