Template talk:Information
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Frequent errors with the Template:{{Information}}
Items from wikimedia, other projects and sister wikis should be expressed by an internal link and never by a URL.
date
Templates like ISOdate or Upload date will generate the correct format.
Date is corrected with the next cleanup.
But only the date-format yyyy-mm-dd can be displayed correctly in the users preference and translated into national languages.
Year, month and day (month and day optional) of the date should never be written as 04.05.06 or 7/8/09 — even the cleanup script will have problems to interpret and correct it !
source
Best will be to use a template – e.g.
- {{Own}} – the standard; other "own" templates are e.g.
- {{Using}} – when an URL (or an explanation) follows
- {{Based}} – when one or more files should be specified (optional with their creator and/or file display)
- {{Taken}} – when a camera should be specified (or {{Scanned}} when the file results from a scan)
The source field may also bear the specification of attributed files.
author or artist
The standard is to specify a wikipedian with the Template:{{U}} or one of its variations - they comprise other namespaces and projects, e.g.sister-wikis;
everywhere instead of a (single) user a user list or a Creator can be specified.
When an SVG file is the result of a conversion from a raster image, the Template:AutVec can specify both users (or user lists) and the raster original (or file list);
it is a bad style to specify original file[s] and their creator[s] otherwise and more complicated !
Whenever possible, author/artist/vectorizer should be a linkable item. Never use "me", "myself", "own" or other non-informative nonsense!
How to use this template to add a description in an other language?
How to use this template to add a description in an other language (French in my case)?
--Dom (talk) 00:45, 13 January 2026 (UTC)
- This can be done by entering {{fr|description here}} into the description filed (after
|description =). It will look like this:Français : description here. Prototyperspective (talk) 23:06, 28 January 2026 (UTC)
Add a section for "Other information"
So people can get to know further information about each file, besides the description. Candidyeoman55 (talk) 21:06, 28 January 2026 (UTC)
- This info most likely belongs into the description section. You can use linebreaks or headers / sections or separators to separate it from the rest of the description. If you explain which further information you mean, one may be able to help you further (e.g. there also is the other_fields parameter but if it's info relating to the file that is not about the author, the location, the source, or the date, then it most likely belongs into the description field). Prototyperspective (talk) 23:09, 28 January 2026 (UTC)