Wikipedia:WikiProject Ships/Tools

WikiProject Ships Tools

Available templates and userboxes

Key project templates

{{WikiProject Ships}} – project banner to be placed on discussion pages of articles within project scope. As well as "laying claim" to the article, it helps us assess article quality and direct resources to articles that need work. Articles are given a quality and importance rating as per the project's assessment criteria.
{{shipindex|name=ship name}} to be placed on all ship name disambiguation pages (e.g. {{shipindex|name=Enterprise, USS}}).

Infobox template

This standard infobox template has been developed to present information on military and civilian ships and ship classes in a consistent format.

Request templates

{{Image requested|ships|in=nation}} – If an article does not have a photo, adding this template to its talk page will add it to Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of ships and also to the category for requested photographs in nation.
{{WikiProject Ships|needs-infobox=y}} – If an article lacks an infobox, adding this parameter to the banner template on the article's talk page will note that fact and also add the article to Category:Ship articles without infoboxes.
{{New infobox|type=ship}} – If an article uses an outdated infobox template or a hardcoded table, adding this template to its talk page will add it to Category:Ship articles needing infobox conversion.

Editing shortcut templates

Save your fingers and avoid typos.

Linking shortcuts

Linking to a ship or ship class article can involve a lot of extra typing, because ship names are italicized, but ship prefixes and other text in the article title are not. The following templates are shortcuts that will automatically format text when linking to a ship or ship class article.

Note: these templates have tunable output; see individual template documentation for details.

Citation shortcuts

{{Cite ship register}} ({{csr}}) – general citation template that covers major databases and registries
{{Ship register}} – formats ship's register number for article's infobox
{{Cite plimsoll}} – for vessels on Lloyd's Register between 1930 and 1945
{{IMO Number}} – formats ship's ISO number for article's infobox, and links it to Marinetraffic.com
{{MMSI Number}} – formats ship's MMSI number for article's infobox, and links it to Marinetraffic.com
{{ENI Number}} – formats ship's ENI number for article's infobox
{{Call sign}} – formats ship's call sign for article's infobox, and links it to Marinetraffic.com

Other shortcuts

{{navy}} – for adding the naval ensign and linked navy

Hatnote template

Hatnotes are very brief italicized notes placed at the top of an article. In ship articles, hatnotes are usually used to link to a disambiguation page for other ships of the same name, or to link to individual ship articles in the absence of a disambiguation page. A hatnote link is preferable to a 'See also' link where ship articles are concerned, as ships very frequently share names and hatnotes are highly visible.

{{otherships}} – for inserting a hatnote that links to other ship articles or ship disambiguation pages

Navigational footer templates

These templates provide an easy way to navigate between ships of the same class or type. See Category:Ship navigational boxes for a complete listing of all existing navigational templates for ships.

Fair use image templates

The template {{Non-free historic image}} may be applied to images which fall under Wikipedia's fair-use image policy.

User vanity templates

{{user ships}} – WikiProject Ships userbox
{{User CSNavy}} – Confederate Navy userbox

Stub types

Water transport stubs {{water-transport-stub}}
- Ship type stubs {{ship-type-stub}}
- Individual ship or boat stubs {{ship-stub}}

Ensigns, Jacks, Pennants, and Other Vexillologs

WikiProject Ships has a large collection of graphics of flags, jacks, pennants and other vexillologs, useful in ship articles.