Template talk:Cmbox

Message box standardisation

Here are some useful pages:

{{ambox}} – For article message boxes.
{{cmbox}} – For category message boxes.
{{hmbox}} – For hatnote message boxes.
{{imbox}} – For image page message boxes.
{{mbox}} – Has namespace detection, for message boxes that are used on several types of pages thus need to change style depending on what page they are used on.
{{tmbox}} – For talk page message boxes.
{{ombox}} – For other pages message boxes.

Meta pages:

Wikipedia:Article message boxes – The style guideline for creating article message boxes.
Wikipedia:Template messages – Lists most of the article message boxes.

Template:Cmbox is permanently protected from editing because it is a heavily used or highly visible template. Substantial changes should first be proposed and discussed here on this page. If the proposal is uncontroversial or has been discussed and is supported by consensus, editors may use {{edit protected}} to notify an administrator to make the requested edit. Usually, any contributor may edit the template's documentation to add usage notes or categories.

Any contributor may edit the template's sandbox. Functionality of the template can be checked using test cases.

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Pages that list message boxes that use the {{cmbox}}:

The {{cmbox}} template was previously named {{catbox}} and {{cambox}}, older comments on this talkpage use those names.