Help:Template reference

This page lists common templates for producing standardized citations, flagging articles for maintenance, and other common wiki tasks. Their most common uses are listed here, and some have further functionality listed on their own pages.

Some simple, frequently used templates are listed in Help:Cheatsheet. Browse all templates from Category:Templates.

Referencing templates

Referencing and standardized referencing are important. As such, please use these templates.

When using these templates, please ensure that the link to the article is faithful and correct; that all relevant parameters are filled-in; and the date is the date of publication, not the date of access. To avoid ambiguity between date formats, please write out the full year and the name of the month.

Official Wizards Website: DailyRef

{{DailyRef}} should be used for articles on magic.wizards.com (previously known as dailymtg.com, or "The Mothership"). It should only be used for articles: it will not produce a functional link for other pages (such as product pages or more obscure content).

{{DailyRef|The part of the URL following magic.wizards.com/en/news/|Title|Author(s)|Date}}

Tumblr: TumblrRef

{{TumblrRef}} can handle links to any Tumblr blog. See also EzTumblr below

{{TumblrRef|author=...|url=http://...|title=title of the thread|tumblr=the title of the Tumblr|date=date of creation}}

Short format: EzTumblr

For the most frequently cited Tumblrs, {{EzTumblr}} can automatically fill the author, tumblr, and (optionally) title fields of TumblrRef. You still need to provide the full URL and date.

{{EzTumblr|http://...|<date>|title=...}}

Drive to Work: DriveRef

{{DriveRef}} standardizes links to Mark Rosewater's Drive to Work podcast. If available, it accepts a partial URL for a transcript as its final parameter.

{{DriveRef|The part of the URL following media.wizards.com/podcasts/magic/|episode number|episode title|transcript URL following http://dtwtranscripts.blogspot.com/ (if available)}}

General: WebRef

{{WebRef}} standardizes links in general.

{{WebRef|author=...|url=http://...|title=title of the webpage|date=date of creation|publisher=...}}

Maintainance

Cleanup

{{Cleanup}}

This article or section may require cleanup to meet quality standards.

Spring Cleaning

Cleanup This article or section may require cleanup to meet quality standards. Please consider discussing this issue on the corresponding talk page or, if possible, improve this page. “Next action: clean up mess.”

Expand

{{Expand}}

Please help improve this article or section by expanding it.

Embiggen

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Fact — Fact, or "Fact"?

Use {{fact}} if a certain fact need citation.

Delete — Proposed article for deletion

{{Delete}}

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Disdainful Stroke

Delete This help has been nominated for deletion. You can discuss its removal on this article's talk page. Reason: Not specified “Prepare for unraveling.”

Rewrite

{{Rewrite}}

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Rescind

Rewrite This article or section may need to be rewritten entirely to meet quality standards. Please consider discussing this issue on the corresponding talk page or, if possible, improve this page. “Good work, but I know you can do better. Try again.”

Dead Link

Use {{dead link}} to denote a link that is dead, doesn't have an archived version (e.g. via http://archive.org), and needs replacement.

Miscellaneous

Cquote

{{Cquote}} places the provided quote in an HTML <blockquote> element. This is for presentation only; it does not constitute a citation. {{Cquote|Insert the text of the quote here, without quotation marks.}}

“

Insert the text of the quote here, without quotation marks.

”

TOCleft and TOCright

{{TOCleft}} and {{TOCright}} force a table of contents (which can be "forced" by entering __TOC__ anywhere in an article; it appear roughly in the same area as it is entered) to appear, aligned left and right respectively.

MTG product templates

New set page

{{subst:ExpansionDummy}} can be used to start a page for a new set. Save this "substitution call" of this dummy/boilerplate template into the appropriately titled new page to immediately expand it into a stub page with typical appropriate sections. Edit the resulting stub page to add set details.

See also MTG Wiki:Content guidelines#New sets.

Deckpage

{{Deckpage}} e.g. {{Deckpage|lorwyn|4|Lorwyn|Merrow Riverways}}

Creates a link to a deck product's official page:

The links provided by this template are broken. It's possible it can be modified to use archive links.^{[dead link]}

Example

Lorwyn Theme Deck: Merrow Riverways — Wizards of the Coast

Decks

{{Decks}} for a color-oriented table of multiple related deck products, such as theme decks or commander decks released as a group in connection to a set. See template page for explanation and examples.