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Locke

Bureaucrats, Interface administrators, Administrators

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 ===Templates===
-This is a bit of a side project and isn't getting as much attention as it deserves. Specifically, I'd like to be adding useful [[:Category:Ambox Templates|ambox templates]] as they're needed. Other ongoing template projects include:
+I try to make it easier for contributors to put together content by making useful, intuitive, and extensible templates. Some templates I've created or contributed to, or am working on:
-*[[:Category:Caption Templates|Caption Templates]] — I'm working on linking the caption templates directly to their respective text dumps. The end goal is to be able to simply type, for example, "<nowiki>{{Navi}}</nowiki>" on a page to bring up Navi's comment on that topic. Most of the templates are already in place, so most of the remaining work is simply updating how the caption templates are used within articles. Check each caption template's "What links here" page to see what needs to be updated, and check the presets in the code to see what can be added. Go ahead and add any additional presets if there are more quotes.
+*{{Temlink|Box}} — As an effort to standardize the appearance of side content, this meta-template is used by many other formatting templates.
-*[[Template:Cite]] — There is currently a notable lack of references on this wiki. Use the Cite template in conjunction with <nowiki><ref></nowiki> tags to back up information with in-game quotes, interviews, etc.
+*{{Temlink|Ambox}} — This meta-template is used as a standard for all article message boxes that appear at the tops of articles or sections.
-*[[Template:Release]] — This template should replace all instances of release dates being manually listed.
+*{{Temlink|Navbox}} — This meta-template is used for the footer navigation boxes.
-*[[:Category:Footer Templates|Footer Templates]] — (future project) I will be adding various footer boxes to link to similar articles. Existing ones include [[Template:GamesFooter]] and [[Template:IwataAsksFooter]]. If you have any suggestions, leave them on my [[User_talk:Locke|talk page]], or go ahead and make the template yourself.
+*{{Temlink|MagicNavbox}} — I'm particularly proud of this version of Navbox, which in just one template (two if you count {{Temlink|CD}}) automatically creates scores of footer navigations using just a few inputs.
+*{{Temlink|Dump}} — In addition to bringing all the text dumps to the wiki, I created this template to retrieve individual quotes from said dumps so as to reduce copy errors and enforce validity.
+*{{Temlink|Caption}} — Caption templates work with the Dump template to automatically retrieve Fi/Navi/etc. captions according to an article's title.
+*{{Temlink|Cite}} — Right now, this merely enforces a standard format on references. Work is in progress to transform this template into a self-contained versatile reference system, replacing the Cite extension currently used (which uses <nowiki><ref> and <references /></nowiki> tags).
+*{{Temlink|Foreach}} — I had a lot of fun with this template and am very happy with how potentially useful it is. It was created to help display several quotes in a row using Dump, but it works with many other templates as well, invoking several instances of the given template in sequence using a given set of values.
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