Difference between revisions of "Template:Historical/doc"

Latest revision as of 07:02, 29 April 2012

Overview

This template is to be used for articles or sections of articles that fit the description in the message.

Parameters

All parameters are optional. If not supplied, a default value will be used.

type

Purpose: Indicates whether the message applies to the whole article or just a section.

Default: "article or section"

Accepts: Anything, but should probably be "article" or "section".

reason

Purpose: A keyword that indicates which reason this is historical. Fills in the spot between "... contains information ..." and "...City of...".

Default: that no longer applies to the current version of

Accepts:

• change = about changes that took place in
• event = about a past event in
• maybe = that may not apply to the current version of
• notused = about a system or idea that was never implemented into
• obsolete = that no longer applies to the current version of
• issue = about a major update to

customreason

Purpose: Supplies a customized reason when there exists no reason= option that will work. Try to use only for special cases! If a more generalized reason can be added to reason=, that may be better. If used, this will disable reason=.

Accepts: Anything.

game

Purpose: Indicates which game the message applies to. Will be preceded by "City of ".

Default: "Heroes/Villains"

Accepts:

• h, coh, hero, heroes for "Heroes"
• v, cov, villain, villains for "Villains"
• both, hv for "Heroes/Villains"
• vh for "Villains/Heroes"

more

Purpose: Used to replace the last sentence with more descriptive sentence, when applicable.

Accepts: Anything.

text

Purpose: Used to provide custom text to replace the entire text structure that is normally used. Thus, all other parameters will have no effect. This should be used fairly sparingly.

Accepts: Anything.

Usage

Template Call	Result
{{historical}}	This article or section contains information that no longer applies to the current version of City of Heroes/Villains. It is provided for historical purposes.
{{historical|type=article}}	This article contains information that no longer applies to the current version of City of Heroes/Villains. It is provided for historical purposes.
{{historical|type=section}}	This section contains information that no longer applies to the current version of City of Heroes/Villains. It is provided for historical purposes.
{{historical|game=coh}}	This article or section contains information that no longer applies to the current version of City of Heroes. It is provided for historical purposes.
{{historical|game=v}}	This article or section contains information that no longer applies to the current version of City of Villains. It is provided for historical purposes.
{{historical|game=vh}}	This article or section contains information that no longer applies to the current version of City of Villains/Heroes. It is provided for historical purposes.
{{historical|reason=obsolete}}	This article or section contains information that no longer applies to the current version of City of Heroes/Villains. It is provided for historical purposes.
{{historical|reason=maybe}}	This article or section contains information that may not apply to the current version of City of Heroes/Villains. It is provided for historical purposes.
{{historical|reason=event}}	This article or section contains information about a past event in City of Heroes/Villains. It is provided for historical purposes.
{{historical|game=v|reason=event|type=section}}	This section contains information about a past event in City of Villains. It is provided for historical purposes.
{{historical|game=h|reason=change|type=section}}	This section contains information about changes that took place in City of Heroes. It is provided for historical purposes.