Familypedia:Navigational templates

A navigational template is often a small list for use in several related articles, without the usual disadvantages of duplication; in particular, editing is done in a central place, the template page. See also "Related topics" (navigational lists).

Examples: Articles linked by and  or groups of images by either  or the animated list US growth maps shown below and left.

To learn how to create navigational templates quickly, see Template:Navbox generic. To learn how to create more advanced ones or edit existing ones, see Help:Template. Request assistance at Requested templates.

Since their number is ever-increasing, this page attempts to keep track of them in a structured manner. When you create a new MediaWiki element of this kind, please add it to this page. Templates ought to be categorized as well: see Category:Navigational templates.

General navigation templates

 * Some editors deprecate large, colorful, list-based templates on small articles.
 * When the navigation is between the members of a category, using otherarticles will place the article in a category, and provide links to that category and to a general article or list.
 * For succession in office, including peerages, consider succession box unless the office in question clearly needs its own template. Variant templates for persons who have held several notable offices are discussed on its talk page.
 * For relating articles across different categories in a logical sequence, use step.
 * For examples of consistent formatting, see Wikipedia:Template:Navbox generic

Some general advice: Try to avoid navigation templates that are too large. For example (in Wikipedia), Wikipedia:EMD diesels lists all of the models of diesel locomotives built by one manufacturer, but this template is too large to be included on every locomotive article that is referenced in it. Instead, the individual sections of Wikipedia:EMD diesels were split out into their own templates such as Wikipedia:EMD GPs or Wikipedia:EMD SDs. The smaller templates retain a more tightly focused relationship between the articles and allow the reader to navigate to other related content quickly.

Section tagging templates: Like the ubiquitous Main and inuse are useful for article links best kept in an article section, and generally link to related main articles, up from subpages created to split an article into a set of more manageable and desirable length, or down to such sub-pages. They are also useful and prevalent in making cross links to articles covering an aspect the section covers in part to a more in depth article on that topic.

Special purpose children of 'see also' have been developed to link across daughter sub-categories in category pages (cat see also) to related categories in Wikimedia Commons (cat see also commons), and link either to parent categories or across the interwiki divide to other sister projects category pages at need (catlst).

History and timelines

 * Template:Industrial Revolution
 * Template:WWIIHistory
 * Template:WWIITheatre
 * Template:Easter Rising

School districts

 * Template:Grossmont Union High School District - Grossmont Union High School District (USA)

Universities

 * Template:California State University - California State University (USA)
 * Template:California State Polytechnic University, Pomona - Cal Poly Pomona (USA)
 * Template:San Diego State University - San Diego State University (USA)
 * Template:Drexel University - Drexel University (USA)
 * Template:Ivy League - The Ivy League (USA)
 * Template:Ohio Wesleyan University - Ohio Wesleyan University (USA)
 * Template:Oregon University System - Oregon University System (USA)
 * Template:Rutgers - Rutgers University (USA)
 * Template:University of Alaska System - University of Alaska System (USA)
 * Template:University of California - University of California (USA)
 * Template:University of California, Berkeley - University of California, Berkeley (USA)
 * Template:UC Davis - University of California, Davis (USA)
 * Template:UCLA - University of California, Los Angeles (USA)
 * Template:University of California, Riverside - University of California, Riverside (USA)
 * Template:University of California, San Diego - University of California, San Diego (USA)
 * Template:UCSB - University of California, Santa Barbara (USA)
 * Template:University of California, Santa Cruz - University of California, Santa Cruz (USA)
 * Template:UChicago - University of Chicago (USA)
 * Template:University of Cambridge - University of Cambridge (UK)
 * Template:University of Hawaii - University of Hawaii (USA)
 * Template:University of London - University of London (UK)
 * Template:UNC System - University of North Carolina System (USA)
 * Template:University of Oxford - University of Oxford (UK)
 * Template:WUSTL - Washington University in St. Louis (USA)

Other

 * Buildings and structures: Template:Bridges of Central London
 * Calendars: Template:Months
 * Coinage and currency: See Category:Currency navigational boxes
 * Computing:
 * Template:WebManTools - Website Management Tools
 * Template:Google Inc. - List of Google tools and services.
 * Template:Zilog - List of ZiLOG products;
 * Template:Acorn computers
 * Template:Motorola processors - List of Motorola/Freescale microprocessors
 * Template:AMD processors
 * Template:AdobeCS - List of Adobe Creative Suite programs
 * Template:Navigationbox Desktopsearch - List of Desktop-Search-Environments and similar technologies
 * Ethnic groups: Template:CEG - Chinese ethnic groups, Template:Castes and Tribes of the Punjab- Castes and Tribes of the Punjab region, Template:The seven Mohyal clans - Mohyal clans
 * Flags and heraldry: Template:Heraldry, Template:Nationalflags - Links articles like Gallery of national flags
 * Learned societies: Template:Swedish Royal Academies - Royal Swedish Academies
 * Template:Associations