Templates allow for messages or information to be easily and cleanly inserted into any Chiki page. Below are all the various templates used in Chiki. When you use them, please ensure that they are inserted into the correct part of a page or article.
The following templates can be used at the top of any article, where appropriate.
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What it looks like
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| {{copyandpaste}}
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This article (or parts of it) have been copied and pasted!
Not only could this be illegal, it decreases the usefulness of Chiki, and may not be entirely relevant to the article .
Please correct this by rewriting it in your own words, or removing the offending section.
See Chiki:Copying and Pasting for more info.
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| Put at the top of a page (or section of a page) that contains text copied from another site.
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| {{rule}}
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This is an official, accepted rule on Chiki.
You are expected to understand and comply to it.
You don't have to learn it by heart, but you should have a rough understanding of the proposals on this page.
Please leave any questions of comments on this article's Talk Page.
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| Put at the top of any rule page.
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| {{important}}
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This article is insecure and needs lots of attention.
Please add lots of content so it feels better and makes Chiki better too!
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| Use in an important article that needs tender love and care.
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| {{cherubworld}}
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This article is set in the CHERUB world.
Please write this artical as if CHERUB actually existed.
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| Use on an article based in the world of CHERUB
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| {{canonical}}
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This article is canonical.
Please only add content that has actually been included in the books, like James' hatred of mayo, and NOT any fanfic rubbish, like ASU or James' love for Kyle.
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| Use on an article for a CHERUB book which has not yet been released.
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| {{future}}
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| This article or section contains information about scheduled or expected future CHERUB book.
It may contain tentative information; the content may change as the event approaches and more information becomes available.
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| For use in an article intended to contain content or information only included in CHERUB books.
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| {{construction}}
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This article is under constrution
Another user is performing long-term work on this article.
Please try to contact them before making any changes to this article.
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| Use in an article you are currently writing which you don't want to be changed by other users
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| {{lendahand}}
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This article is under constrution, but needs your help!
This article is having a lot of work done to it, but needs a helping hand.
Feel free to help out!
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| Use in an article you are currently writing, but you need help with.
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| {{protected}}
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This article has been protected by the SysOps
For explaination or to request changes or unprotection, please go to the article's talk page.
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| To be used only by SysOps, on pages which have been protected from editing.
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| {{technical}}
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This is a technical page.
It is related to the running of the wiki. Please do not edit unless instructed to.
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| Pretty self explanatory, really.
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| {{sucks}}
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| Use it on a page that's written worse than The Killing, and that's in need of improvement.
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| {{delete}}
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This article may soon be deleted.
This article has been nominated for deletion by a Chiki contributor.
Please visit the article's Talk page to discuss this and cast your vote.
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| Placed on a page which is may be deleted in accordance with Chiki's Deletion Policy.
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| {{instantdelete}}
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This article has been nominated for an instant deletion.
In accordance with the Chiki Deletion Policy, a Chiki contributor has nominated this page to be instantly deleted.
See this article's Talk Page for info.
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| Can be placed on any page which is extremely unnessecery, and should be gotten rid of.
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| {{merge}}
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This article has be nominated to be merged with another article.
It has been suggested by a Chiki Contributor that this page be merged with another page - for more information see this article's talk page..
See this article's Talk Page for info.
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| Placed on a page which could be merged with another page. State this on the discussion page for that article.
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These templates all contain information which, while being useful, does not require urgent attention, and is unlikely to be removed, so they are placed on the article's talk page.
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What it looks like
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| {{rob}}
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This article is lucky enough to be commented on by Rob!
To see what his holy authorness had to say, have a look at this article's talk page.
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| Place in an article which has been commented on by Rob
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| {{conform}}
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This article does not conform.
Somebody's been ignoring the Style Guide!!! Non-conformitism is bad! Please drag this article,
kicking and screaming, into a world of lovely style guide conformity, and then remove this message.
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| Place in an article which doesn't conform to the Style guide
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| {{stub}}
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This article is a bit of a stub.
Please make it better, by adding loads more information to it.
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| Use on a short article in need of expansion. List of current stubs - If you've got nothing better to do, please try to expand these!
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| {{forumsStub}}
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This article, relating to CHERUB Forums is too short. Like Marry.
Please make it better, by adding loads more information to it. Before we send it to Mount Doom.
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| Use on a stub relating to CHERUB Forums. List of current forums stubs - If you've got time on your hands, make these better!
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| {{splendid}}
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This article is in a state of Splendid Stubness.
There's not much more you can add to this stub, so bask in it's stubness!
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| Use on a short article not in need of expansion.
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| {{disambig}}
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| Use on a Disambiguation page.
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| {{speaki}}
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[[Media:{{{1}}}.mp3|Listen to this Article]]
This recording was created by {{{2}}} on {{{3}}}, and so might not be entirely up to date.
| Put at the top of the last section of an article that has been spoken. See Chiki:Speaki for more info.
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| {{fullofyourself}}
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This article makes the subject look full of themself.
Chiki is meant to be written from a neutral viewpoint.
Please correct this article and remove this template.
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| Pretty self explanatory. Recommended for use on pages about forum members that have been poorly written.
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| {{spellcheck}}
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Please Spellcheck this Article!
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| Look at her lovely t-shirt. It will tell you what to do.
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