“ When this parameter is used by a template, the talk page link will appear on the template itself (in order to demonstrate the functionality) but this will only display on articles if the parameter is actually defined. In order to make sure there is always a link to the talk page, you can use |talk={{{talk|#}}}. If the talk page does not exist, there will be no link, whatever the value of the parameter. date Passing the date parameter through to the meta-template means that the date that the article is tagged may be specified by an editor (or more commonly a bot) . ”

“ Technical notes This meta-template uses the ambox CSS classes in MediaWiki:Common.css. The classes can also be used directly in a wikitable if special functionality is needed. See the how-to guide for that. If you need to use special characters in the text parameter then you need to escape them like this: {{Ambox | text =

Equal sign = and a start and end brace { } work fine as they are. ”

“ If an icon is purely decorative and also in the public domain, accessibility can be improved by suppressing the link to the file page by adding "|link=|alt=" as seen above. sect Many article message templates begin with the text This article ... and it is often desirable that this wording change to This section ... if the template is used on a section instead. The value of this parameter will replace the word "article". Various possibilities for use include: |sect=list, |sect=table, |sect="In popular culture" material, etc. ”