Template:Historical

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Badge time.png 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.
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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}}
Badge time.png 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}}
Badge time.png 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}}
Badge time.png 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}}
Badge time.png 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}}
Badge time.png 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}}
Badge time.png 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}}
Badge time.png 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}}
Badge time.png 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}}
Badge time.png 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}}
Badge time.png 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}}
Badge time.png This section contains information about changes that took place in City of Heroes. It is provided for historical purposes.