LifeWiki:Template list
Templates can be inserted into pages to easily produce frequently-required text or information boxes. This page catalogues some of the most useful and frequently-used templates on LifeWiki.
General templates
- Template:Disambiglink - produces text like "for other meanings of the term..." that links to a disambiguation page, to be placed at the top of pages with names that may have multiple meanings
- Template:Main - for indicating that the current section of the article is treated in more depth on another page
Pattern templates
A pattern template should be included at the top of every single page describing a specific pattern. The available pattern templates are listed below. When none of the templates match the type of pattern that the page is about, the general pattern template should be used.
- Template:Agar
- Template:Conduit
- Template:Crawler
- Template:Fuse
- Template:GrowingSpaceship
- Template:Gun
- Template:Methuselah
- Template:MovingBreeder
- Template:Oscillator
- Template:OscillatorComponent
- Template:Pattern
- Template:Puffer
- Template:Reflector
- Template:Rotor
- Template:Sawtooth
- Template:Spaceship
- Template:StillLifeComponent
- Template:Stilllife
- Template:UnitCell
- Template:Wave
- Template:Wick
- Template:Wickstretcher
Other page templates
- Template:Book - to be placed at the top of pages describing a book or important article
- Template:Disambig - produces the leading text on disambiguation pages
- Template:Person - to be placed at the top of pages describing a person
- Template:Rule - to be placed at the top of pages describing a Life-like cellular automaton
Maintenance templates
- Template:Proposeddeletion - to be placed at the top of pages that should be considered for deleted
- Template:Requestpatternfile - to be placed at the top of pages that need to have pattern files and/or images uploaded (usually automatically-inserted)
- Template:Speedydeletion - to be placed at the top of pages that should be speedily deleted
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