Wikipedia:WikiProject Comics/Templates

Infoboxes

Further information: Wikipedia:WikiProject Comics/Templates/Infoboxes

Navigation box templates

Navigation boxes (navboxes) are helpful in collecting links to articles related to a central topic for the ease of navigating among articles.

Keeping in mind Wikipedia's guidelines for accessibility and color use, the navboxes used by the Comics Project should not use a color scheme that:

• Is only for the decoration of a single navbox;
• Is used on a single navbox to identify a character's or team's "colors"; or
• Can potentially become hard to read based on any state link text may be in.

Navboxes for closely related topics may have a unifying color scheme, but they must meet the needs of being visually accessible and there should be a reason for multiple navboxes other than to have a "different color". Otherwise the navbox should use the defaults for {{Navbox}} or the following colors which acoincide with the basic infobox colors used by the project:

• titlestyle = background-color: #77AAFF
• groupstyle = background-color: #77AAFF
• oddstyle = background:transparent
• evenstyle = background:#eef7ff

Also, based on Wikipedia:Navigation templates, the material contained within the navboxes used by this project should not include:

• Unlinked text or topics. The purpose of these templates is to provide connections between exiting articles, not to provide additional information in and of themselves.
• Links to non-existent topics or "redlinks". For the same reason unlinked text should be avoided. Further, including the redlinks gives a false impression of the need for the missing article.
• Topics that are, at best, tangentially related to the central topic of the navbox.

A full list of current navboxes used by the project can be found at Category:Comics navigational boxes and its sub-categories.

Barnstar

Image		What to type	Title and description
Barnstar 1.0	Barnstar 2.0 or alternative version
	—	{{subst:Comics Star|message ~~~~}}	The Comics Barnstar The Comics Barnstar is rewarded to those who have helped to improve and significantly contribute to comic-related articles. Barnstar designed by Steveblock on January 17, 2006.

Stub templates

Further information: Wikipedia:WikiProject Comics/Templates/Stub templates

Article maintenance templates

Cleanup

For wikipedia wide cleanup templates, please see Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup.

Comics specific

• {{In-universe|subject=comics|category=comics}} will tag an article or section which does not differentiate fact from fiction. See the manual of style for more information.
• {{Issue}} will tag unreferenced statements, asking for the relevant issue number to be cited.
• {{Cleanup-tense}} will tag articles which use the past tense rather than the literary present tense to describe fictional events.

Spoiler Warnings

Main page: Wikipedia:Spoiler

Wikipedia does not use spoiler warnings.

WP:COMICS notice for talk pages

This template should be added only to the talk pages of relevant articles.

• Type {{WikiProject Comics}} to produce:

• The WikiProject Comics project banner template allows certain tags which will categorise articles as in need of cleanup:
  • {{WikiProject Comics|infobox=yes}} will tag the article as requiring an infobox.
  • {{WikiProject Comics|image=yes}} will tag the article as requiring an image.
  • {{WikiProject Comics|attention=yes}} will tag the article as requiring attention. Reasons for the attention include:
    • Articles needing wikifying
    • Stub articles on important subjects
    • Articles in need of expert attention
    • Articles whose content or neutrality is disputed
    • Articles that lack references

Comic book image tags

• Most comic book and graphic novel covers, interior artwork, comic strips, panels, webcomics and editorial cartoons are subject to copyright and should be used in accordance with our fair use policy. All such copyrighted images should be tagged with {{Non-free comic}}.

You can also use:

• {{comic cover rationale}}

to automatically create a rationale.

WP:COMICS Userboxes

Place {{User WPComics}} on your user page to produce:

This user is a participant in
WikiProject Comics.

And to keep track of the current Collaboration of the month, place {{User ComicsCollab}} on your user page to produce:

Underground comix
is the
Comics Collaboration of the Month.

External links templates

• {{Marvelwiki}} - For the Marvel Universe wiki at Marvel.com
• {{Marvunapp}} - For the Appendix to the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe