Template:Wfmessage/doc

This is a documentation subpage for Template:Wfmessage.
It contains usage information, categories and other content or metadata that is not part of the original template.

This template uses TemplateStyles: Template:Wfmessage/styles.css

Usage

The Website flex message box template is a message box template like Template:Mbox but based on the style of the OSM home page. It uses CSS flexboxes to style the content.

Notes

A detailed documentation for each parameter is provided below. The type needs some visual explanation

Syntax

{{Wfmessage
| type = 
| image = 
| text = 
| nocat = 
| categories = 
}}

Parameters

This is a messagebox like Ambox but based on the style of the OSM webpage.

Template parameters

This template prefers block formatting of parameters.

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
type	type	basic style of the template Suggested values advice content delete structural notice Default notice Example notice Auto value notice	Line	suggested
image	image	name of an image to display before the text Example example.png{{!}}alt=some example image	File	optional
text	text	text shown in the message box	String	required
edittext	edittext	text shown below the other "text" but visible to users only (should be used to give some advice to editors)	Unbalanced wikitext	optional
image2	image2	image shown after the text (to the right on LTR languages) Default (none) Example Example.svg{{!}}alt=an example file	File	optional
nocat	nocat	insert any text to supress the categorisation Default (empty)	Boolean	optional
categories	categories	categories to be added to a page using a template derived from this one Example [[Category:Templates|~some sort key]]	Unbalanced wikitext	optional

• type=advice

some text goes here

Advice contains important information the user should take into consideration. This refers to import guidelines and other OSM guidelines. It basically says "you should take that into consideration. Otherwise, you provoke a conflict or worse."

• type=content

some text goes here

Content issues indicate problems arising from translations or cleanup necessities. Similarly, it can also be used for incomplete or dubious content. It basically suggests "please double check what is written here".

• type=delete

some text goes here

Type delete is used for content whose deletion is requested. That effectively limits its use to {{Delete}}. The intended message is "this may effect you soon".

• type=notice

some text goes here

Notices are used for edit requests, stubs, and general notices that may or may not be relevant to the user. It is basically an equivalent to "for your interest"/"FYI".

• type=question

some text goes here

Questions are used to indicate that page might contain controversial information.

• type=structural

some text goes here

This type indicates structural changes to one or multiple pages about a similar topic. For the ordinary reader, it should be understood as "this is some information in case you are interested in wiki matters". This would be used for {{Merge}}, {{Move}}, {{Split section}}, {{Delete proposal}} ...

Example

This section is empty, insufficiently detailed or incomplete. Your help is welcome to develop it!

See also

• {{Questioned}} – similar to {{Wfmessage}} type=question plus multi language title
• {{Disputed}} – similar to {{Wfmessage}} type=content (and question mark)
• {{Ambox}} - stands for Article message box. This template is used in many pages

• {{Fix}} –
• {{Dubious}} – Used after a specific statement or alleged fact that seems dubious or unlikely.
• {{Citation needed}} – Used after a specific statement or alleged fact that seems missing citation.
• {{Dead link}} –