User:Bugman/Finding the correct template

Information boxes

If you would like to present important information to the reader, please see:

• Help:Gallery of messagebox templates

Aicraft infoboxes

When creating a page for an aircraft, always start with the aircraft infobox template:

• {{infobox aircraft}}

Avoiding hard-coded URLs and future dead links

Warning  URLs to the official and 3rd-party FlightGear infrastructure should never be hard-coded, as these will inevitably change in the future and become dead links on the Wiki.

To help the FlightGear project survive many decades from now, URLs, links, and descriptions to the official and 3rd party FlightGear infrastructure should always be provided via templates.

Forum link templates

For the FlightGear forum, we have three main templates:

• {{forum}}
• {{forum link}}
• {{forum url}}

Repository link templates

URLs to the official and 3rd-party FlightGear repositories should, in all cases, be provided by one template from the family of repository link templates:

Project infrastructure details

For links, names, and descriptions of the FlightGear project infrastructure, please consider using the {{Project infrastructure}} template.