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The purpose of this project is to implement a standard and consistent design for article message boxes. That is, message boxes or article templates that go on the top of articles and article sections (or, in select cases, the bottom). Other kinds of article templates such as navigation boxes and infoboxes are not included in this Workpage.

The Template

The {{ArticleMessageBox}} template makes it easy to create article message boxes in the new design. Usage documentation and examples:

Most Article message boxes have a background color of #fbfbfb (slightly off white), which is intended to contrast slightly with the full white (#ffffff) used for articles, while still being easy to read.

Design

Please note:

The wording of these message boxes is not under discussion at this time. Initial implementation will use the text from the existing "production" templates. The wording in the examples below is for illustration purposes only.

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"Deletion issue" templates

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"Merger and transwiki proposal" templates

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