Template:Historical/doc
Overview
This template is to be used for articles or sections of articles that fit the description in the message.
Parameters
All parameters are optional. If not supplied, a default value will be used.
- type
- Purpose: Indicates whether the message applies to the whole article or just a section.
- Default: "article or section"
- Accepts: Anything, but should probably be "article" or "section".
- reason
- Purpose: A keyword that indicates which reason this is historical. Fills in the spot between "... contains information ..." and "...City of...".
- Default: that no longer applies to the current version of
- Accepts:
- change = about changes that took place in
- event = about a past event in
- maybe = that may not apply to the current version of
- notused = about a system or idea that was never implemented into
- obsolete = that no longer applies to the current version of
- issue = about a major update to
- customreason
- Purpose: Supplies a customized reason when there exists no reason= option that will work. Try to use only for special cases! If a more generalized reason can be added to reason=, that may be better. If used, this will disable reason=.
- Accepts: Anything.
- game
- Purpose: Indicates which game the message applies to. Will be preceded by "City of ".
- Default: "Heroes/Villains"
- Accepts:
- h, coh, hero, heroes for "Heroes"
- v, cov, villain, villains for "Villains"
- both, hv for "Heroes/Villains"
- vh for "Villains/Heroes"
- more
- Purpose: Used to replace the last sentence with more descriptive sentence, when applicable.
- Accepts: Anything.
- text
- Purpose: Used to provide custom text to replace the entire text structure that is normally used. Thus, all other parameters will have no effect. This should be used fairly sparingly.
- Accepts: Anything.
Usage
| Template Call | Result |
|---|---|
| {{historical}} |  This article or section contains information that no longer applies to the current version of City of Heroes/Villains. It is provided for historical purposes. |
| {{historical|type=article}} | This article contains information that no longer applies to the current version of City of Heroes/Villains. It is provided for historical purposes. |
| {{historical|type=section}} | This section contains information that no longer applies to the current version of City of Heroes/Villains. It is provided for historical purposes. |
| {{historical|game=coh}} | This article or section contains information that no longer applies to the current version of City of Heroes. It is provided for historical purposes. |
| {{historical|game=v}} | This article or section contains information that no longer applies to the current version of City of Villains. It is provided for historical purposes. |
| {{historical|game=vh}} | This article or section contains information that no longer applies to the current version of City of Villains/Heroes. It is provided for historical purposes. |
| {{historical|reason=obsolete}} | This article or section contains information that no longer applies to the current version of City of Heroes/Villains. It is provided for historical purposes. |
| {{historical|reason=maybe}} | This article or section contains information that may not apply to the current version of City of Heroes/Villains. It is provided for historical purposes. |
| {{historical|reason=event}} | This article or section contains information about a past event in City of Heroes/Villains. It is provided for historical purposes. |
| {{historical|game=v|reason=event|type=section}} | This section contains information about a past event in City of Villains. It is provided for historical purposes. |
| {{historical|game=h|reason=change|type=section}} | This section contains information about changes that took place in City of Heroes. It is provided for historical purposes. |