MyWiki:WikiProject Games/Templates
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Template:WP:WikiProject Games/Sidebar This page documents templates related to games. Note that infobox templates shown below are examples, purely for demonstration purposes. Therefore some information has been omitted to reduce the size of the template transclusion on this page.
Project templates
[edit source]Project banner
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| {{WikiProject Games}} |
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Tag the talk pages all WikiProject Games related articles and project subpages with this template. It will automatically add the page to Category:WikiProject Games articles. | |||||||
Welcome template
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| {{WWGame Welcome}} |
Welcome to Wikipedia:WikiProject Games[edit source]
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A welcome template that welcomes new users to our project. Add it to the talk pages of new users who have contributed to video-game related articles, using {{subst:WWGame Welcome}} --~~~~. | ||||||||||
Article templates
[edit source]Infobox
[edit source]See also: Infobox discussion, Project template discussion, Release dates.
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| {{Infobox game}} |
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Infobox game should be used in all game articles where the infobox will ADD to the quality of the article. Do NOT add an infobox to an article simply for the sake of it. The infobox image used should be relevant to the game. Avoid images that include people unless absolutely needed. Make sure that the image used comply with the Wikipedia image use policy. | ||||||||||||||||
| {{vgrelease}} | Used for release dates, which creates superscript abbreviations. Other country codes are listed here. | |||||||||||||||||
| {{vgy}} | For dates in video-game related articles where the day-of-year is not known, the year should be linked to "YYYY in video gaming". The template creates this wikilink easily: {{vgy|2007}} will automatically produce the year and create a link to the appropriate article. | |||||||||||||||||
Video game requirements
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| {{Video game requirements}} |
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Provides a table of requirements for a video game for a personal computer system if more space is needed than what is provided by the Infobox template. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Image tags
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| {{Non-free game cover}} | This image is cover art for a video game, and its copyright is most likely held by the game's publisher or developer. It is believed that the use of low-resolution images of game cover art
constitutes fair use under United States copyright law. Other uses of this image may be copyright infringement. For more information, see Wikipedia:Non-free content.  To the uploader:
|image has rationale=yes as a parameter to the license template. |
| {{Non-free computer icon}} |  This image is a copyright-protected computer icon of a computer program. It is believed that the exhibition of icons to
To the uploader:
|image has rationale=yes as a parameter to the license template. |
| {{Non-free logo}} | This is a logo of an organization, item, or event, and is protected by copyright. The use of low-resolution images on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, of logos for certain uses involving identification and critical commentary may qualify as non-free use under the copyright law of the United States. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. Certain commercial use of this image may also be trademark infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content and Wikipedia:Logos.
Use of the logo here does not imply endorsement of the organization by Wikipedia or the Wikimedia Foundation, nor vice versa. To the uploader:
|image has rationale=yes as a parameter to the license template. |
| {{Non-free game screenshot}} | This image is a screenshot from a video game, and its copyright is most likely held by the game's publisher or developer. It is believed that the use of low-resolution screenshots
constitutes fair use under the Copyright law of the United States. Any other uses of this image may be copyright infringement. For more information, see Wikipedia:Non-free content. To the uploader:
|image has rationale=yes as a parameter to the license template. |
Cleanup
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{{Gameguide}} |
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{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Computer and video games/External link templates}}
Stub types
[edit source]For a generic stub about computer and video games, use {{videogame-stub}}. This will put the article into the Video game stubs category.
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For a more specific stub by genre, use:
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Or for stubs by company, use:
Other stub types include:
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Our daughter projects have also created the {{Pokémon-stub}} (Pokémon), {{FinalFantasy-stub}}, and {{Warcraft-stub}} templates. These will also put articles into the corresponding stub categories.