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The MediaWiki software used to run MaxTravelz offers the capability to automatically generate sophisticated HTML using templates. Templates should be discussed before being created or modified. The list below shows templates that are currently available.
Available Templates
The following templates can be used in articles.
Notices
Notices are short fragments of standard text that should appear on relevant pages. Most reflect an article's status. A template is used so that a standard text appears on each relevant page. This saves typing. The following notices are currently available.
These notices are used to indicated article status:
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| {{vfd}}
| Indicates that an article has been recommended for deletion. This notice should be added to the top of the article.
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| {{stub}}
| Indicates that an article is at stub status. This notice should be added to the bottom of the article.
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| {{outline}}
| Indicates that an article is at outline status. This notice should be added to the bottom of the article.
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| {{usable}}
| Indicates that an article is at usable status. This notice should be added to the bottom of the article.
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| This is a usable article. It has information for getting in as well as some complete entries for restaurants and hotels. An adventurous person could use this article, but please plunge forward and help it grow!
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| {{usabletopic}}
| Indicates that a topic article is at usable status. This notice should be added to the bottom of the article.
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| This is a usable article. It touches on all the major areas of the topic. An adventurous person could use this article, but please plunge forward and help it grow!
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| {{guide}}
| Indicates that an article is at guide status. This notice should be added to the bottom of the article.
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| This is a guide article. It has a variety of good, quality information including hotels, restaurants, attractions, arrival and departure info. Plunge forward and help us make it a star!
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| {{guidetopic}}
| Indicates that a topic article is at guide status. This notice should be added to the bottom of the article.
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| This is a guide article. It has a good, detailed information covering the entire topic. Plunge forward and help us make it a star!
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| {{star}}
| Indicates that an article is at star status. This notice should be added to the bottom of the article.
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| This is a star article. It is a high-quality article complete with maps, photos, and great information. If you know of something that has changed, please plunge forward and help it grow!
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| {{startopic}}
| Indicates that a topic article is at star status. This notice should be added to the bottom of the article.
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| This is a star article. It covers the topic completely with great information and visuals. If you know of something that has changed or have new information to add, please plunge forward and keep it fresh!
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These notices are used with disambiguation pages:
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| {{disamb}}
| Indicates that a page is a disambiguation page. This notice should be added to the bottom of all disambiguation pages.
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| This article is a disambiguation page. If you arrived here by following a link from another page you can help by correcting it, so that it points to the appropriate disambiguated page.
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| {{otheruses}}
| Used on pages that would normally require disambiguation, but meet the "most famous" exception (such as Paris and Denmark). This notice should be added to the top of the article and will create a link to a disambiguation page.
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- For other places with the same name, see Template index (disambiguation).
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These notices are used to indicate that an article needs attention due to some problem:
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| {{style}}
| Indicates that a page does not conform to the manual of style. This notice should be placed at the top of an article.
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| {{copyvio|url}}
| Used on pages that contain a copyright violations. This notice should be placed at the top of an article. Note that it is generally preferred to just remove copyrighted information and then leave a note on the talk page indicating where the content came from and why it was removed.
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| {{merge|destination}}
| Indicates that an article does not meet the article criteria and that its content should be merged into the destination article. This notice should be placed at the top of an article.
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These notices are used to promote articles that are collaborations of the week:
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| {{cotw|from-date|to-date}}
| Indicates that a page is the current collaboration of the week. This notice should be placed at the top of an article as well as at the top of the article's talk page.
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This article is the Collaboration of the week for the period 27 Mar 2006 to 2 Apr 2006. Find out how it can be improved, and plunge forward to make this an article we can be proud of!
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| {{pcotw|from-date|to-date}}
| Indicates that a page was previously a collaboration of the week. This notice should be placed at the top of an article's talk page.
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| {{cotwpromote|article}}
| Used on the front page to promote the current collaboration of the week.
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Other information notices
Informational notices provide warnings and disclaimers about hazards or other vital pieces of information that travelers should be alerted to.
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| {{disclaimerbox|disclaimer}}
| A disclaimer is a sparingly-used message, normally containing editorial content about policy decisions. A disclaimer should generally be discussed prior to being added to an article.
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Here Tibet is used as a synonym for the Tibetan Autonomous Region (T.A.R.) of China not the historic Tibet in existance prior to the Chinese take over. This is not a political statement. The strict restrictions on freedom of movement put on foreigners, sharply divides the T.A.R from ethnically Tibetan areas that form a geographic and cultural continuation of Tibet to the east of the T.A.R..
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| {{warningbox|warning}}
| Used to call out information that is vital to a traveler's safety, such as recent damage from a natural disaster, political instability, or some other serious condition. Warning boxes should be sparingly used and placed either at the top of an article or within the article section that is related to the warning.
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WARNING: The effects of Hurricane Katrina severely damaged parts of New Orleans at the end of August, 2005, and it expected to take many months for the city to return to normality. As of Spring 2006, most services in the main travel centers (French Quarter, Central Business District, Garden District, and Faubourg Marigny) are back to normal; however, be prepared for contingencies if you're traveling outside the city center.
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Content insertion
These templates are used to standardize the look of specific MaxTravelz article content.
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| {{infobox|title|description}}
| Used to create an infobox to display an interesting fact or notable piece of information within an article. Infoboxes should be used sparingly.
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Sample title
Sample description
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| {{newsitem|title|date|description}}
| Used to create a news item on the Main Page.
| ===Budget terminals at Sing, KL===
23 March 2006
New airport terminals built for low-cost carriers open in Kuala Lumpur on March 23 and in Singapore in March 26. Flights by Air Asia, Malaysia's sole low cost carrier, will operate from the new terminal, while Tiger Airways will move to Singapore's Budget Terminal. (more...)
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{{quickbar
| image=[[Image:Pretty.jpg|noframe|250px]]
| flag=[[Image:xx-flag.png]]
| location=[[Image:xx-location.png]]
| capital=Capital
| government=Government type
| currency=Local currency (ABC)
| area=123 sq km
| population=4,567,890 (July 2005 est.)
| language=Language1, Language2
| religion=Religion1, Religion2
| electricity=xxxV/yyHz (Z plug)
| callingcode=+CC
| tld=.xx
| timezone=UTC +N
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| Used to create the quick reference box for country pages (and should not be used anywhere else). All arguments to the command are optional. For the image argument, please make sure the width is exactly 250px (the width of the quickbar) and that the "noframe" option is specified.
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| Flag
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| Quick Facts
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| Capital
| Singapore
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| Government
| Parliamentary pepublic
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| Currency
| Singapore dollar (SGD)
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| Area
| total: 692.7 sq km
water: 10 sq km
land: 682.7 sq km
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| Population
| 4,425,720 (July 2005 est.)
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| Language
| English (official), Chinese (official), Malay (official and national), Tamil (official)
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| Religion
| Buddhist, Muslim, Christian, Hindu, Sikh, Taoist, Confucianist
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| Electricity
| 230V/50Hz (British plug)
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| Calling Code
| +65
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| Internet TLD
| .sg
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| Time Zone
| UTC +8
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Inserting Boilerplate Text
MaxTravelz has a number of article templates that can be used to format articles. The following substitution texts can be used to quickly insert the article template into newly created articles. When the article is saved the shortcut is replaced with the text. This is a one-off substitution and can only be undone by deleting the inserted text - use with care.
See also
