User talk:Richardluan

Hey there, I appreciate your efforts with the template and stuff, but in your own intrest, perhaps you should check out Help:Editing? There's lots of helpful stuff there.

A template is basically just another page set aside specifically for "copying" into another page. You write it as you would a usual page (table in the case of Template:Infobox Monster), except where ver there would be variable text, you put three curly brackets. Check out the template I linked and view the page source (click Edit and just look), that should give you an idea of how a template works.

You "copy" a template by using, where &lt;name&gt; is the name of the template. If the template has variables, you'd do. This would pass the variable named, well, "variable" in the template the text "something". See how it works? The | (pipe) separates variables from eachother.

Um... I should have left this to Help:Editing. :S Um, good luck around the wiki. Oddlyoko 05:51, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

P.S. The "signature" I just left, something like my name and a date, I added using the wikisyntax ~. That's four of them (called tildes), their key is above Tab. Three of them adds only the name, and five the date. :)