Template:Vehicle

Vehicle
Type Unknown

The {{vehicle}} template is used on articles describing boats, trains, spaceships and other modes of transport.

Parameters

{{vehicle|title=
|image=
|type=
|creator=
|creators
|owner=
|owners=
|captain=
|earth=
|world=
|universe=
}}

Required

|type=
provide a tag indicating what kind of vehicle it is:
  • Carriages and other road vehicles are tagged with {{cat tag|roadcraft}}
  • Trains and other rail craft are tagged with {{cat tag|railcraft|Traincar}}
  • Aircraft are tagged with {{cat tag|Aircraft}} or {{cat tag|aircraft|Airship}} for example
  • Watercraft are tagged with {{cat tag|watercraft|Ship}} or {{cat tag|watercraft|Boat}}
  • Spacecraft are tagged with {{cat tag|Spacecraft}}
Any more specialised vehicles should be {{tag}}d to the specific page and then added to one of the above too
If the vehicle is present in {{tag+}}, that template should add one of the above categories automatically
If no type is provided, it will show as Type: Unknown as can be seen above

Location & Setting

|world=
provide the name of the planet and it will be linked to
|earth=
provide the name of the series to link to the appropriate alternative earth page
|universe=
if either of the above are too specific a generalised universe link or tag can be passed

If none of the above properties are given, it will show as World: Unknown as can be seen above

Optional

|creator= or |creators=
provide links to the people or groups who created the vehicle
|owner= or |owners=
provide links to the people or groups who own or have owned the vehicle
|captain=
provide a link to the person in charge of the vehicles operations

Advanced

|title=
override the infobox title to the name passed
|cats=
override the default categorisation of category: Objects and Materials
the template will remove the default category when used on any page not in the main namespace

Articles using Template