Help:List of Useful Templates

This is a list of Templates you may find useful while editing the Blaseball Wiki. These are often easy shorthands for various icons, categories, or links used for maintenance around the Wiki.

General use cases are suggested but feel free to use these where ever they might be useful!

Source Editor markup is listed, to add these templates while using the Visual Editor you can either type "{{" to click Insert > Template on the top toolbar, search for the Template using its name, and fill it out using the Visual Editor's Template window. For more basic markup help, visit this link!

Color

Colors text. Colour also works when calling it.

Use:
{{ Color | [Color] | [Text] }}

[Color] accepts basic color names or #[Hexcode] i.e. "#111111" or just "111111".

Example:

{{Color|red|Hello!!}} = Hello!!

{{Colour|7071c2|Hello!!}} = Hello!!

Cite

Generates a ^{[citation needed]} notice.

Use:
{{Cite}}

Example:
This information needs to be cited. {{Cite}}  =  This information needs to be cited. ^{[citation needed]}

Community Lore

Generates the Community Lore banner. Use this above any section of an article that contains fan lore you or your team have created outside of the facts of the game!

Use:
{{Community Lore}}

Example:
{{Community Lore}} This is some Community Lore!

generates:

COMMUNITY REPORTS
The remainder of this article contains lore created collaboratively by the Blaseball community.

This is some Community Lore!

Deadlink

Generates dead link text. Use Template:Deadlink when you want something to look like a deadlink, but you don't want to confuse people who click on it. It looks like a red/deadlink, but will redirect to Help:Deadlinks or a page of your choosing.

Use:
{{Deadlink|TEXT|LINK}}

Use the first parameter for the text.

The second parameter is optional! You can use it to customize what page you want to redirect to, instead of Help:Deadlinks.

Example:
Item 1 {{Deadlink|the text you want}} Item 2 {{Deadlink|the text you want but with a link|Richmond Harrison}} Item 3

generates:

Item 1 the text you want Item 2 the text you want but with a link Item 3

Dt

Generates a dot with spaces around it. Useful spacing things out in a horizontal list, mainly in the case of Navboxes.

Use:
{{Dt}}

Example:
Item 1 {{Dt}} Item 2 {{Dt}} Item 3

generates:

Item 1   ·   Item 2   ·   Item 3

Forbidden Knowledge

Generates a banner warning of upcoming content that is Forbidden Knowledge, information gained from the code of Blaseball that may spoil future content.

Use:
{{Forbidden Knowledge}}

Example:
{{Forbidden Knowledge}} Jason Hamburgerhelper is back from the void!

generates:

WARNING: FORBIDDEN KNOWLEDGE
This page contains FORBIDDEN KNOWLEDGE: information about the game of Blaseball that has not been revealed by Blaseball itself. This knowledge may diminish the mysteriousness of the game. Proceed at your own discretion.

Jason Hamburgerhelper is back from the void!

HexCode

Generates a HexCode using text colored the given hexcode color. Useful for team colors.

Use:
{{ HexCode | [hex code] }}

Example:
{{HexCode|c02cd1}} = #c02cd1

{{HexCode|2cc7d1}} = #2cc7d1

Infoboxes

Infoboxes are very common templates found on many pages, so they should look very familiar! They're the boxes on the right-hand side of the page with all the quick facts. We have quite a few infobox templates you can use for various page types, so they're all listed here!

Each has a wide variety of different information parameters, far too many to list here, so visit the link on each to see a full list of parameters! The Visual Editor does a great job of listing all of the parameters you can fill in when Inserting a template. Source Editor markup is listed on each infobox's link as well!

Infobox List:

• Template:Player
• Template:Team
• Template:Stadium
• Template:Mascot
• Template:Team Staff
• Template:Weather
• Template:TV Show

General Use:

{{ [infobox name]

| parameter name = [parameter value]

| parameter name = [parameter value]

}}

See links above for specific use.

Modif

Generates the name and icon for a Modification. Useful for the "modifications" section on Player and Team infoboxes.

Use:
{{ Modif | [modification name (lowercase)] | [Number of season] }}

If season is inapplicable, just leave it blank.

Example:

{{Modif|targeted shame|5}} =

 Targeted Shame (Season 5)Teams with Targeted Shame will start with negative runs the game after being shamed.
See also: Glossary

{{Modif|alternate}} =

 AlternateThis Player is an Alternate...
Player is replaced with an alternate reality version, stats are randomized.

Navboxes

Navboxes are boxes used at the bottom of a page that link to various other articles related to the one the box is being used on.

Team Navs:

For Use, see here.

Each Team Nav is linked here for editing purposes.

FirefightersNav	SpiesNav	PiesNav	SunbeamsNav	GeogiasNav	SteaksNav
BreathMintsNav	WildWingsNav	JazzHandsNav	CrabsNav	MechanicsNav	FlowersNav
MoistTalkersNav	TigersNav	DaleNav	FridaysNav	LiftNav	MillennialsNav
GaragesNav	LoversNav	TacosNav	ShoeThievesNav	WormsNav	MagicNav

Other Navs:
These Navs have more general topic use.

• TeamNav (Blaseball Teams)
• BlaseballNav (General Blaseball topics, such as site features, Rules, and Lore)
• DisciplineEraNav (Historical Blaseball Events, as well as Team and general Community Lore history.)
• WeatherNav (Weather)
• PeanutNav (Peanuts)

Random number

Generates a random number including 0. RandomNumber also works when calling.

Use:
{{Random number | [count] | [seed] | [prime] }}

• All parameters are optional and have default values. They must be integers.

• [count] is the max number. The default [count] is 100 (so by default, this template generates values between 0 and 99) and must be non-zero.

• The default [seed] is {{#time:z}} (currently 256, i.e. the current day number in the year, at the time this page was last saved or purged from the cache) and can be set to any other integer value (used to generate distinct values on the same page).

• The default [prime] is 67 and should be a prime number above 17 (used to generate distinct values on the same page).

Example:

• {{Random number}} = 29 (default, gives values between 0 and 99)

• {{Random number|1000}} = 729 (second and third digit are the same as above)

• {{Random number|1000}} = 729 (same page load, same output)

• {{Random number|1000|256|67}} = 729 (same as above)

• {{Random number|1000|256|61}} = 795 (this and others should all be different)

More examples here.

Shelled

Generates the Shelled stamp from the Blaseball site. (Can't be placed over the top of text). Useful for Team rosters.
Use:
{{Shelled}}

Example:
A Shelled player is {{Shelled}} = A Shelled player is  

Spoiler

Generates text that is obscured with a black bar until clicked, mimicking the function on discord. Useful for "redacted" information.
Use:
{{Spoiler|Redacted Info}}

Example:
Here's some {{Spoiler|juicy spoilers}} that will only show up when you click.}} = Here's some juicy spoilers that will only show up when you click.

Star Rating

Generates stars. Useful for player stat ratings.

Use:
{{Star Rating | [star count] }}

Accepts whole numbers and decimals with ".1".

Example:
{{Star Rating|2}} =

{{Star Rating|4.5}} =

TeamSelector

Links to a Team. Can add an emoji at the end if you want.

Use:
{{TeamSelector | [team name] | emoji }}

emoji is optional, will add a teams emoji after the name.

Team name can be full or common shorthands.

Example:
{{TeamSelector|dale}} = Miami Dale

{{TeamSelector|tigers|emoji }} = Hades Tigers 🐅

TeamNameSelector

Generates a link to a team.

Use:
{{TeamNameSelector|[team name]}}

Team name can be full or common shorthands.

Example:
{{TeamNameSelector|dale}} = Miami Dale

{{TeamNameSelector|tigers}} = Hades Tigers

TeamCategorySelector

Adds a page to a given team's category. Useful for Player or Team Lore pages.

Use:
{{TeamCategorySelector|[team name]}}

Team name can be full or common shorthands.

Example:
{{TeamCategorySelector|dale}} = [[Category:Miami Dale]]

{{TeamCategorySelector|tigers}} = [[Category:Hades Tigers]]

FormerTeamCategorySelector

Adds a page to a given team's Former Players category. Useful for Player pages when a player changes teams.

Note: This is currently not being added to incinerated players.

Use:
{{FormerTeamCategorySelector|[team name]}}

Team name can be full or common shorthands.

Example:
{{FormerTeamCategorySelector|dale}} = [[Category:Former Miami Dale Players]]

{{FormerTeamCategorySelector|tigers}} = [[Category:Former Hades Tigers Players]]

TeamIconSelector

Generates a team's icon, alinging to the right of the page. Useful for season Blessings results.

Use:
{{TeamIconSelector|[team name]}}

Team name can be full or common shorthands.

Example:

{{TeamIconSelector|dale}} =

{{TeamIconSelector|tigers}} =

TeamEmojiSelector

Generates a team's emoji.

Use:
{{TeamEmojiSelector|[team name]}}

Team name can be full or common shorthands.

Example:
{{TeamEmojiSelector|dale}} = 🚤

{{TeamEmojiSelector|tigers}} = 🐅

TeamNavSelector

Generates a team's navbox. Useful for all pages associated with a certain team. Place at the bottom of the page, under the references or final paragraph.

Note: Be sure to add your page to the Nav itself as well under the appropriate section! To locate the Nav for editing, find the list here.

Use:
{{TeamNavSelector|[team name]}}

Team name can be full or common shorthands.

Example:
{{TeamNavSelector|dale}} =

{{TeamNavSelector|tigers}} =

Twitter

Generates a Twitter link with an @ symbol. Useful for art sourcing.

Use:
{{Twitter | name = [Twitter Username] }}

Example:
{{Twitter|name=Blaseball}} = @Blaseball

Wikipedia

Generates a banner that cites content from a Wikipedia page.

Use:
{{ Wikipedia | [Wikipedia page name] }}

Example:

{{Wikipedia|Blaseball}} =

This page uses Creative Commons licensed content from Wikipedia (view authors).

Wills Templates

Here is a list of templates to build new Wills results on the Season pages. They are best used in Visual Editor, since the variables are named (and numerous)

• Template:ForeshadowWill
• Template:TrustWill
• Template:InfuseWill
• Template:ExchangeWill
• Template:PlunderWill
• Template:EnrichWill
• Template:RevokeWill
• Template:AlternateWill

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