Command and Conquer Wiki:Templates

Templates are used to provide easy-to-put-in lists of relevant articles into articles of a particular subject. They come in four general types: Info templates at the top right of a page, category templates at the bottom, notice templates and stub templates at the bottom.

How to use templates
Find your template. A nice list is on this very page a bit further down. Your template should be located at Template:YourTemplateName. To insert it into an article, put. Notice no "Template:" bit, and the {{ instead of the [[ used for internal links.

Now some tricky stuff. You can put various bits of text as an input into the template, to make it slightly unique for the page you are using it on. The most simple way is this:

If the source for your template contains some of these: {{{1}}}, {{{2}}} , {{{3}}} , on the page you are using the template on put {{YourTemplateName|Random1|Random2|Random3}}. Now when the template is loaded into the page, wherever {{{1}}} appeared in the source for the original template, it will be replaced by "Random1", and likewise for the others.

This is all merely acratching the surface. Your best bet now is to either study the source of Template:Character, or look for a howto in the help sections of either meta or wikipedia.

Info templates
These come at the top-right corner of a page, and provide quick stats in an easy-to-digest form. Some examples: Some articles where they are used (i.e. click view source on them to see how to use the templates) are:
 * Template:Character (for people)
 * Template:Units (for units)
 * Mammoth Mk. II