Editing Editor guidelines (section)

== Templates ==

Templates help us keep the wiki more consistent. Secondary skills are a good example of this. We can use a single template that requires just the name and description of the skill. The template then uses the name to get the correct images, and then takes those images, the name, and the description, and puts them all together in a consistent manner for each different skill. Most templates provide instructions and examples to help beginners.

You can also study the existing templates on the wiki. When you open a page preview, you can scroll down to a line of text with a dropdown arrow that reads "Templates used in this preview". You can click this dropdown to show any templates the current page is using. You can read these templates and then study how they are used on that page. 

For a complete list of templates, see: <span class="plainlinks">[https://{{SERVERNAME}}/wiki/index.php?title=Special%3AAllPages&from=&to=&namespace=10&hideredirects=1 All Templates]</span>.

For help creating templates, see: <span class="plainlinks">[https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Template Template Help]</span>

As a small example of what templates can do, here are a few text templates we use to keep our references to {{homm}} consistent throughout the wiki:

{| border=1 cellspacing=0
!Template!!Effect
|-
|[[Template:homm|<nowiki>{{homm}}</nowiki>]]|| {{homm}}
|-
|[[Template:roe|<nowiki>{{roe}}</nowiki>]]|| {{roe}}
|-
|[[Template:hommroe|<nowiki>{{hommroe}}</nowiki>]]|| {{hommroe}}
|-
|[[Template:ab|<nowiki>{{ab}}</nowiki>]]|| {{ab}}
|-
|[[Template:sod|<nowiki>{{sod}}</nowiki>]]|| {{sod}}
|-
|}


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