Template:Wikipedia template messages

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This is the {{wikipedia template messages}} navigation box.

It is suitable for transcluding at the bottoms of Wikipedia:Template messages and its subpages. The search link in the bottom row of the template uses {{Google custom}}.

This template is a self-reference and so is part of the Wikipedia project rather than the encyclopaedic content.

[edit] Usage

This is a simple navigation template based on {{Navbox}} that takes an optional state parameter:

{{Wikipedia template messages}}

• Use {{Wikipedia template messages|state=collapsed}} to show this template in its collapsed (hidden) state.
  

• Use {{Wikipedia template messages|state=expanded}} to show this template in its expanded (fully visible) state.
  

• Use {{Wikipedia template messages|state=autocollapse}} to show this template in its collapsed (hidden) state only if there is another template of the same type on the page. (This is usually the default.)

[edit] Limitations on search

The search link at the bottom of the template uses {{Google custom}} to search on Wikipedia:Template messages subpage tree. The search may fail to cover pages that are outside the subpage tree, such as Wikipedia:Wikimedia sister projects which appears on the template, but is not a subpage of Wikipedia:Template messages.

If any subpages originally existed as pages outside the subpage tree, and if the original pages still exist as redirects to the newer subpages, Google may continue to consider the redirect pages as the "real" pages, and the current pages as duplicates for Google to ignore.

Wikipedia has no control over how Google decides to index pages. If you cannot find a template that you are sure appears on one of the template message subpages, you can try one of the more general searches with {{Google custom}}, such as a search on Wikipedia's Wikipedia: namespace.

[edit] See also

• {{Template messages}}