মডেল:Taxobox/doc

This is the template documentation page for {{Taxobox}}.
It is not intended to be viewed directly. If it uses variables, some links may appear broken. Do not replace these variables with hardcoded page names or URLs.

About this template

This template sets up a taxobox. Although the implementation is complicated, it is relatively simple to use. See taxobox usage for an explanation. For an example in practice, look at the edit page of Orca - [১]. Most parameters are optional, so if a particular entry is not relevant for your case, just leave it out.

Making changes

Before making any non-minor changes to this template, please make a copy of the whole template to your userspace and do tests there. This will avoid unnecessary load on the servers and prevent a large number of pages being screwed up. To edit and test the taxobox template in your userspace:

Copy the text in the large edit box of Template:Taxobox to [[User:YOUR USERNAME/taxobox]]. Copy the whole text so that you don't leave anything out.
Test the template with various taxonomies by copying the text of a plant/animal species or group to [[User:YOUR USERNAME/taxoboxtest]].
Replace the {{Taxobox|...}} template used by [[User:YOUR USERNAME/taxoboxtest]] with {{User:YOUR USERNAME/taxobox|...}}
If unsure, please check a few different animals and plants and groups
Check the Template:Taxobox history, in case changes have been made while you've been editing
Copy the whole text of [[User:YOUR USERNAME/taxobox]] back to {{Template:Taxobox}}
Check that plant and animal pages still work.
Request your userspace taxobox and taxoboxtest pages are deleted using {{db-userreq}}

Editing documentation and interwiki links

Add or edit the documentation and interwiki links for the Taxobox template via the Template:Taxobox/doc page. The /doc page is not protected.

Further documentation is found at:

This template employs some extremely complicated and esoteric features of template syntax.

Please do not attempt to alter it unless you are certain that you understand the setup and are prepared to repair any consequent collateral damage if the results are unexpected. Any experiments should be conducted in the template sandbox or your user space.