Note: This page contains details of templates relating to article descriptions.

Templates related to issues and disputes with articles, including NPOV, are listed under Template messages/Disputes.

Templates related to formatting are listed under Template messages/Format.

Templates related to Cleanup issues are listed under Template messages/Cleanup.

Note: These templates should never be substituted.[further explanation needed]

සැකිල්ල:Navbox other uses templates

What to type What it produces Where to put it
{{ about|topic|other topic|location }}
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of articles whose disambiguation page is not suffixed with "(disambiguation)"
{{ disambiguation needed }}
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Redirect: {{ambiguous link}}
[බහුරුත්හරණය අවශ්‍යයි] In-line
To be added to links to disambiguation pages and links to articles to which they clearly don't refer. While it is better to simply correct the link, use this template if you're not sure where the link should really be disambiguated to.
{{ distinguish|topic }}
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of articles with deceptively similar titles.
{{ distinguish2|topic }}
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As above, but topic not treated as a link (although it may include one).
{{ for|description|location }}
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of articles with only one alternative meaning and no disambiguation page.
{{ for2|description|text }}
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of articles with only one alternative meaning and no disambiguation page.
{{ hatnote|message }}
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of articles with alternative meanings where none of the other templates are appropriate.
{{ other people|name }}
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සැකිල්ල:Other persons Top
of articles about people who share the same or a similar name.
{{ other people2|name }}
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of articles about people who share the same or a similar name.
{{ other people3|person1|person2|name }}
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of articles about people who share the same or a similar name.
{{ other places|location }}
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of articles about places who share the same or a similar name.
{{ other places3|location }}
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සැකිල්ල:Other places3 Top
of articles about places who share the same or a similar name.
{{ other uses|example }}
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of articles with a disambiguation page.
{{ other uses2|example }}
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of articles with a disambiguation page.
{{ redirect|location }}
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of articles requiring disambiguation that have pages redirecting to them.
{{ redirect2|location|other location }}
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of articles requiring disambiguation that have two pages redirecting to them.
{{ redirect3|location|description including links }}
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of articles requiring disambiguation that have pages redirecting to them.
{{ redirect4|location|example }}
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of articles with two redirecting pages that each have disambiguation pages.
{{ redirect-acronym|(Acronym)|Other uses }}
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සැකිල්ල:Disambig-acronym Articles that have an acronym redirecting to them, which may have other uses.
{{ selfref }}
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In articles, wherever reference is made to a Wikipedia project page.
{{ two other uses|example|use2|examples|etc. }}
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of articles with a different use and a disambiguation page.
{{ year dab|1234 }}
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of articles about a year for which there also exists an article about a number (e.g. the year 1000; the number 1000).

On disambiguation pages

සංස්කරණය
For others, see MediaWiki:Disambiguationspage.
What to type What it produces Where to put it
{{ disambiguation }}
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of disambiguation pages.
{{ disambiguation cleanup }}
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of disambiguation pages that need cleanup.
{{ geodis }}
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of disambiguation pages consisting only of geographic locations.
{{ hndis }}
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of disambiguation pages whose title is a human name.
{{ numberdis }}
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Redirect: {{numdab}}
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of number-oriented
{{ SIA }}
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of list articles about a set of items of a specific type that share the same (or similar) name.
{{ surname }}
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This template should be used only in the article (main) namespace. Bottom
of surname (last name) disambiguation pages.

In introductory lines

සංස්කරණය
Note: ordinarily, these templates should be substituted.
What to type What it produces Where to put it
{{ refer|Topic }}
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Redirects: {{disamb1}}, {{may refer to}}, ...
සැකිල්ල:Refer Top
{{ disamb2 }}
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Redirect: {{itref}}
සැකිල්ල:Disamb2 In line
{{ disamb3 }}
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Redirect: {{theyref}}
සැකිල්ල:Disamb3 In line
{{ disamb4|'''Topic'''|description }}
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Redirects: {{refers2}}, {{mayrefer2}}
සැකිල්ල:Disamb4 Top
{{ disambiguation name|Name }}
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Redirect: {{nameref}}
සැකිල්ල:Disambiguation name Top
{{ disamb-name2|Topic|description }}
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Redirect: {{nameof}}
සැකිල්ල:Disamb-name2 Top
{{ disamb-term|term }}
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Redirect: {{termref}}
සැකිල්ල:Disamb-term Top
{{ disamb-terms|term1|term2 }}
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Redirect: {{termsref}}
සැකිල්ල:Disamb-terms Top
What to type What it makes Where it goes
{{ details|location }}
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Sections
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{{ further|location }}
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Sections
near top
{{ main|location }}
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Sections
near top
{{ main list|location }}
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Sections
near top
What to type What it makes Where it goes
{{ citation }}
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Makes a formated citation for use with Harvard style reference links. Articles
notes or references
{{ Harvard citation|name|year }}
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Redirect: {{harv}}
Makes a Harvard style reference link. Articles
notes or references
{{ note|name }}
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  1. ^ The footnote also links back to the reference.
  • ^ A # can be used at the beginning of the line to create a numbered list. Similarly, * creates a bullet.
Articles
notes or references
{{ note label|name|label|backlink }}
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  1. a The footnote also links back to the reference.
  • a A # can be used at the beginning of the line to create a numbered list.
  • a b Similarly, * creates a bullet.
Articles
notes or references
{{ ref|name }}
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Makes reference links and footnotes[1] that are numbered automatically.[2] Articles
notes or references
{{ ref label|name|label|backlink }}
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Makes reference links and footnotes[1] with specific labels.[2] Articles
notes or references
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What to type What it makes Where it goes
{{anachronism}}
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සැකිල්ල:Anachronism Article or section top
{{current}}
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Use 'section' in 2nd parameter, if tagging a section.
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{{current disaster}}
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{{current person|article|person}}
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{{current related|topic}}
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{{current spaceflight}}
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සැකිල්ල:Current spaceflight Article top
{{current sport}}
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සැකිල්ල:Current sport Article top
{{current sports transaction}}
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සැකිල්ල:Current sports transaction Article top
{{high traffic}}
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සැකිල්ල:High traffic Talk page top
{{now}}
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The current date and time is 13 නොවැම්බර් 2024 T 05:11 UTC. Various
{{out of date}}
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{{pbneutral}}
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සැකිල්ල:Pbneutral
  • For use on highly sensitive high traffic articles that are prone to opinionated edits.
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{{recent death}}
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{{recentism}}
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සැකිල්ල:Recentism Article top
{{update}}
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සංස්කරණය
{{ correct title|title=article }}
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{{ lowercase title|article }}
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Decapitalises first letter of page title; for use in articles whose title is incorrectly capitalized due to technical restrictions, such as iPod. Article top

Character/symbol notes

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{{ IPA notice }}
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{{ special characters }}
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මෙම පිටුවේ විශේෂ අකුරු ඇතුළත් වෙයි. නිසි ප්‍රදර්ශන සහාය නොමැති වූ විට ප්‍රශ්නාර්ථ ලකුණු, කොටු හෝ වෙනත් සලකුණු ඔබට පෙනෙනු ඇත.
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Expansion requests

සංස්කරණය

See also: Expansion requests in the talk namespace

What to type What it makes Where it goes

සැකිල්ල:Tlrow2

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සැකිල්ල:Tlrow2

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