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I was wondering whether there are any templates automaticly built in to all Wikia wiki's, say I want to insert the style template that we are all too familiar with to a wiki that does not seem to have that template. Do I have to create one and do I have to be an admin, I have already tried the   along with some other common ones. —This unsigned comment is by Flakese (talk • contribs). Please sign your posts with !


 * Nothing is "built in", but there are a set of templates that newer wikis have from our starter "master" wiki. Go to Special:PrefixIndex/Template: on your wiki --Uberfuzzy 01:28, August 18, 2010 (UTC)
 * Also some what you want for s "style" template, is probably want should be in MediaWiki:Common.css instead -- 02:33, August 18, 2010 (UTC)
 * w:c:templates has lots of templates. On templates  has already been used as an example template similar to t, but for using templates with   (i.e.   yields  ). --  Fandyllic  (talk &middot; contr) 11:28 PM PST 17 Aug 2010


 * To add to what others have said and answer the unanswered bits of your Q !
 * What templates a Wikia wiki has depends on when it was created - As Uberfuzy said newers ones get a a few standard ones.
 * Not clear what 'style template' - "we are all too familiar with" you are actually on about here !!
 * Anybody (registered users) can add a template to a wiki, either by copying one from another wiki (but please credit the source in the edit summary, as it helps if there are problems to know were it came from & also for the CC By SA license) or create your own. But some wikis may have a policy about adding or creating new templates that should be followed to fir with that wikis 'look' and or be compatible with other templates i.e naming convention for variables.
 * w:c:templates:Template:Wikitemplates is a template to help with that for templates taken from w:c:templates -- 03:10, August 19, 2010 (UTC)
 * Template:Style and Template:Advert that you quote do not exist yet on central as nobody has found a need for them or added them. There is a standard message box template that can be customised to create new custom message boxes with very little code used on some wikis.
 * A consideration if you are referring to the Wikipedia versions of templates with those names is that they are over complicated and need many several other Templates to work (wich may not be on the wiki or could be different versions). Check for Wikia compatible versions at the Templates wiki that have been wikiafied is a good idea first. Almost all copied templates will need some customising for the wiki they are transferred to link to the correct pages on that wiki as they often have different naming conventions & structures.
 * Remember a template is the code you see in edit mode in the actual template page NOT the bit which looks like this typically;


 * Which is placed in the article to pass the data to the actual template.
 * Hope that answers it a bit more for you - BulldozerD11 15:36, August 18, 2010 (UTC)