The "subst:" keyword (short for "substitution") is used as a prefix inside template code. It changes the way the software expands the template. Ordinarily...

en:Wikipedia:Substitution trick This page is a soft redirect....

Wikipedia:Manual of Style Wikipedia:Spam Wikipedia:Spelling Wikipedia:Template substitution Wikipedia:Change summary These are rules for how to work better in Wikipedia...

12 May 2018 (UTC) Wikipedia:Differences between links, transclusion, substitution and redirect (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete)...

only warning to the editor to stop what they are doing. This should only be used in extreme cases. Wikipedia:Template substitution Wikipedia:Userboxes...

rollingbarrels (talk) 05:23, 7 January 2020 (UTC) Ordinary Substitution cipher, with a different substitution table. Unknown to google, so probably "made up". Unlike...

Wikipedia:Template messages Request for template transclusion from Commons (interwiki templates, etc.) Wikipedia:Template substitution (the opposite of transclusion)...

specified. This gets a little trickier because {{Don't ping}} may be substituted. To address this, the actual code used is {{safesubst:<noinclude/>Please...

with cigarette substitute - They do exist Kennedy (talk) 10:45, 1 September 2008 (UTC) Merge - This article, along with cigarette substitute, are better...

processed. Template transclusions, parser function calls, and variable substitutions (i.e. anything with a {{...}}) will not be processed, nor will tags...

wikimarkup or LaTeX. User pages and user subpages can be transcluded and substituted, so they behave like templates, and can be tested as such. Pages meant...

to all of the categories used in the article. This template should be substituted. Shortcut WP:CATGENDERWP:CATGENDER In the past, there have been discussions...

the relevant header and footer to the discussion page, remembering to substitute: Shortcut WP:CFBWP:CFB Any active admin who has had adminship for more...

mean. Computer Fizz (talk) 07:33, 20 January 2020 (UTC)  Delete Another substitution cipher. If really wanted, should be a section in the Gravity Falls article...

straw • stream • strength • stress • strike • string • study • subject • substitution • subtraction • success • successive • sucker • sum • supply • surface...

the template syntax to see a summary of the contents. Don't forget to substitute these templates Description Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4 Level 4im...

here below which templates which can be substituted or not, so I know which templates that need substitution. :) -- Psl631 TALK Contribs 18:16, 13 April...

request for deletion was to  Delete. The David Cameron templates will be substituted.— *Fehufangą ♮ ✉ Talk page 07:22, 16 October 2022 (UTC) Template:Boris...

have only 35 pages that link to the template, so it would be easy to substitute it, then delete it. Auntof6 (talk) 02:23, 19 October 2020 (UTC) Please...

it is a pretty good one. IMO we would be better to delete this one and substitute the more basic parts of the En article. Macdonald-ross (talk) 08:52, 30...

the reason: Broken template (required module never imported). Sole use substituted. * Pppery * it has begun... 02:56, 20 August 2024 (UTC) Please discuss...

Delinker. Barnstars generated from templates should be fine, but any substituted ones or ones using non-standard images on our userspace pages may need...

is a teams sport; if I now take the notability guideline referenced, substitute another team sport, I think she qualifies as notable--Eptalon (talk) 23:42...

Soft redirect to the English Wikipedia This project page can be found at en:Wikipedia:Polling is not a substitute for discussion....

do indefinitely block an IP address, place {{blocked proxy}} (do not substitute) on its user or user talk page for tracking purposes. Before implementing...

easily changed, in a text editor, by a global search-and-replace string substitution, to change the default value to some other value, for testing each case...

outcome of this request for deletion was to  Delete. The template will be substituted before it is deleted.— *Fehufangą ♮ ✉ Talk page 10:06, 22 January 2023...

"delete", such as merging.  Keep Keep and put to use. Categories are not a substitute for navboxes. --Auntof6 (talk) 20:11, 28 June 2025 (UTC) This request...

if I could just go ahead and add the task. I would like for it to also substitute various templates on User talk: pages. Specifically, it would: python...

individual assigned her (who was definitively notable), and Cydney Brown was substituted in a rush. Agreed that it is too early. *Also* agree that poorly written...

outcome of this request for deletion was to  Delete. The template will be substituted before it is deleted.— *Fehufangą ♮ ✉ Talk page 10:07, 22 January 2023...

for plain English - either it is crystal-clear or it isn't. There is no substitute for testing a document on real people. If you use Microsoft Word, you...

being the same as the main template). Substituted {{Reflist}} templates are replaced with the non-substituted version. Bold text is removed from the...

23:14, 22 November 2018 (UTC)  Delete. Social media 'likes' are not a substitute for assessments by qualified sources. Macdonald-ross (talk) 13:37, 23...

when used outside of userspace, any template in userspace should be substituted. --Auntof6 (talk) 02:04, 16 August 2016 (UTC) Delete Per the comments...

might not be a bad idea, Maxim. I think that that might work. We could substitute featuring a GA on the main page instead of a DYK until we get more of...

editors substitute the templates to make things look better. I understand wanting to have things look good, but I don't think we want to substitute these...

to be made by running a poll. Remember, en:Wikipedia:Polling is not a substitute for discussion. I think we should reach consensus here in a different...

Pywikibot part, for a couple of reasons: AWB has been used for template substitution on this wiki many times before, however this Pywikibot code has not....

makes no changes to Links, quotes, or references, is not intended as a substitute for human edits, though I have considered trying to fork it into a bot...

activity if we give others an easy way to connect to IRC, it is not a substitute for on-wiki discussion/processes, and we need to be careful of crossing...

French; Other languages, like German, provide a way around, by offering substitutions, for all special characters. If we have an article about a thing that...

-Orashmatash (talk) 16:22, 30 March 2012 (UTC) Can anyone review "The Substitute"? myself and User:TheHistorian spent several days simplifying the article...

you think. Oh, and the current RfD candidates have had their templates substituted so the template they use stays the same. Microchip 18:16, Friday, July...

should state this and propose an alternate word or phrase to use as a substitution. Any comments? Brian Merz 25 Jan 05. Vocabulary is not a problem. We...

autovalue setting to pre-load a value into a template. This can be used to substitute dates, as in this example, or to add the most common value for that parameter...

using ":" followed by "&nbsp;" as follows: : &nbsp; {{nowrap|"There is no substitute for knowledge". -Deming}} The indented line will indent less, on a narrow...

above was filed after this thread was closed. @Tholly: Yes, it's not a substitute for rollback like Chris G's script. It will only work when rollback is...

2007 (UTC) Just as a general comment: In this case there is no need to substitute, so you can simply put {{spoiler}} and {{endspoiler}} instead. --Eptalon...

time. It captures a lot of what we mean, but is not (as psychotropism) a substitute for an article on the illegal drug trade, which I think we really do need...

English was always weak on science, and now is weaker still. It won't do to substitute Basic words for scientific terms. That's more than half the problem we...

is a noun and union an adjective. If "union" is used on its own as a substitute for the full term, then it is being used as a noun, and so takes a plural...

know, if the 'Selected Article' rotation is ready, you could actually substitute it for our old main page now. There don't seem to be any coding problems...

interest in another social network and don't see anyone using this as a substitute for Facebook. I consider working on Simple part of my work as a language...

directly, the problems with complex prose often cannot be solved by word substitution. Often the whole sense of a passage has to be rethought and represented...

some complex changes, by using multiple find-and-replace text string-substitutions. For example, 2 edit-commands could be used to add quotation marks around...

"score" that doesn't really tell me anything, that's for sure. There is no substitute for the mind, and you won't find the perfect script. But this can be useful...

patrolling, but it would be more important to keep up with it. It might be a substitute for semi-protection in some cases. Editors would have to be defined as...

a brief discussion that led to importing them, and most of them are substituted, so wanted to make sure. Osiris (talk) 06:05, 1 June 2013 (UTC) Please...

specifically for test edits? Chenzw  Talk  02:15, 24 June 2020 (UTC) substituting welcometest for welcomevandal works also. Slowking4 (talk) 12:01, 24...

(talk) 13:05, 12 June 2008 (UTC) Support - Great editor and possible substitute of Lights. Chenzw  Talk  13:34, 12 June 2008 (UTC) Support — Seen him...

added safesubst so that the year is dependent on when the template was substituted onto the page, rather than the year when the template message is viewed...

parameters are required or available. Add the template, being sure to substitute it, like this: {{subst:uw-vandalism2}} If you're using parameters, it...

2018 (UTC) Attrib template: this is what I use. It does everything. You substitute title and the number comes from "cite this page" on the En version. gives...

They're not subpages of the adminstats template since the coding was substituted as I said above. There aren't any transclusions of {{adminstats}} associated...

load('//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/scriptpage.js') (iirc) to load the script (substitute scriptpage.js with the page name), although it looks like Qui is no longer...

the effects of breaking down longer sentences, rephrasing, and word substitutions. You can even find circumstances where adding text will raise your readability...

still unsure. They say, "When naming an article, do not use a hyphen as a substitute for an en dash that properly belongs in the title, for example in Eye–hand...

prose is what makes a page meaningful. Templates and tables are not a substitute, just aids and add-ons to fill in details. Macdonald-ross (talk) 18:48...

suggest that these templates be deleted. I'm slightly more reluctant with substituting these templates before deleting them. The only template that I think...

2023 (UTC) Administrator note: The closing date of this RfD was not substituted properly; I have replaced it with the correct date (7 days after 8 January...

 Keep They have enough blue links and are used. If categories were a substitute for navboxes, we wouldn't have navboxes. --Auntof6 (talk) 20:10, 28 June...

It's a maintenance category anyway, so there probably wouldn't be one to substitute for it. In any case, redlinked cats, maintenance or not, aren't important...

know there are still errors with the substitution. It says: “Template {{RfD}} has been incorrectly substituted.“. Thanks. Arthurfan828 - CHAT 00:39,...

not be confirmed represent – v. to act in the place of someone else; to substitute for; to serve as an example repress – v. to control or to restrict freedoms...

CSS then TemplateStyles). In templates intended to be substituted, or those likely to be substituted, use {{ifsubst}} to remove the TemplateStyles tag. Example:...

the encyclopedia is the most important task here. Wikipedia is not a substitute for social media. If you spend some of your Wikipedia time working on...

regarding the existing transclusions of this template? Should they be substituted before the template is deleted or should they be removed? — *Fehufangą...

templates which are not transcluded (however, they may be used for substitution). Special:WantedCategories: categories with members but no category page...

[=synonym]. So I've shifted the Menhir content to Standing stone, and substituted a redirect (which should have been there in the first place). Macdonald-ross...

formatted. Any templates in userspace that are used this way should be substituted. You also shouldn't expect everyone to use them. --Auntof6 (talk) 07:01...

the ones for QDs, but you can use {{uw-rfd}} manually (just be sure to substitute it). --Auntof6 (talk) 17:54, 6 May 2021 (UTC) And now the IP is blocked...

fixing. I'm assuming you took care of the root issue that came from the substituted template? Thanks again. Griff (talk) 18:09, 1 May 2022 (UTC) The root...

--Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 08:29, 5 February 2020 (UTC) I dont know how kommon substituting k for c is in English. Looking at the artikle, I don't think the pikture...

Combustion Fire Salt metathesis reaction Reaction mechanism Redox Corrosion Substitution reaction Chemical substance Chemical synthesis Chemist Conservation of...

returned and continued exactly as before, removing referenced material and substituting his previous text. Macdonald-ross (talk) 04:57, 11 September 2012 (UTC)...

However, if it was used, I would think that a message like this would be substituted rather than transcluded. Lights and freedom (talk) 05:52, 1 February...

regular English. One needs to have a strong vocabulary and be able to substitute simpler words for more complex ones without changing the meaning of a...

say this template isn't needed without reason! read "Polling is not a substitute for discussion". Give us some valid reasons, then I'll agree with it....

Wikipedia:Rollback feature and plan to continue using undo for good-faith edits (substituting the default summary for an explanation). In addition, I often find myself...

DisillusionedBitterAndKnackered (talk) 22:18, 12 January 2009 (UTC) (accept no substitutes) I can definitely confirm that you are not Jonas; wrong part of the Globe...

(UTC) Delete, due to the stated issues with updating. I'm pretty sure substituting the template into each article would make it even more of a hassle to...

That said, Krett12, I would strongly encourage you not to transclude (or substitute) that template anywhere else. We all feel other existing templates are...

work. A quick search reveals articles such as City and suburban growth, substitutes or complements (pdf,1992), The Growth of the City: An Introduction to...

2409:408A:2D8E:DDC7:0:0:D48B:B706 (talk) 03:27, 17 March 2025 (UTC) Popularity is not a substitute for notability Someone-123-321 (talk) 04:50, 17 March 2025 (UTC) References...

Admin: Please ping me if you close this as a delete and I will sort out substitution etc via a bot. For this reason, please also don't delete the templates...

they play (which I concede has a lower take-up rate, globally), and substituted whichever music competitions with their Western equivalent, do I think...

after using it. In a case like this, as you're seeing, you can't just substitute a simpler word. You could say one of the following: Customers could tote...

Combustion Fire Salt metathesis reaction Reaction mechanism Redox Corrosion Substitution reaction Chemical substance Chemical synthesis Chemist Conservation of...

cannot be held true. And to note, FOOTY doesn't care if the player is a substitute or whatsoever, just if they played 1 single game 1 minute, it can be presumed...

replace="Japan's "/> <Typo word="Second-half substitute" find="\b([sS])econd\s+half\s+(replacements?|substitutes?)\b" replace="$1econd-half $2"/> <Typo word="De...

used. Pure Evil (talk) 20:04, 27 July 2023 (UTC) When templates are substituted, there is, I think in all of our user warn templates now, an "invisible...

supported in MediaWiki. The pipe syntax, developed by Magnus Manske, substitutes pipes (|) for HTML. There is an on-line script which converts html tables...

command from MiszaBot, with his permission (on IRC) Function: Template substitution, as well as fixing double redirects. Additional task - Interwiki standardization...

be acceptable ? Thanks--Angler45 (talk) 07:08, 9 March 2016 (UTC) No, substituting other sources linked to the subject does not improve the article. User:Rus793...

know that? So I have a couple of choices as to how to handle this: I substituted the Korentemplate on its own page and now have a pretty bare-bones {{citation}}...

stretch stretcher strike string strong structure study subject substance substitution subtraction success successive such suchlike sucker sudden sugar suggestion...

November 2011 (UTC) Sorry that is me mixing up signatures. In that case substitute James with Albacore cause he did the same thing to him. -DJSasso (talk)...

substace->substance substancial->substantial substatial->substantial substituded->substituted substract->subtract substracted->subtracted substracting->subtracting...

Only (talk) 13:22, 19 November 2011 (UTC) Date syntax of ref 7 fixed by substituting the template. Goodvac (talk) 03:03, 20 November 2011 (UTC) Comment: the...

due to many different reasons: <ul> <li>templates or infoboxes being substituted rather than transcluded (e.g. external links templates). Please restore...

January 2026 (UTC) I linked serve to wiktionary as I can’t think of substitutes, can you? Disrupted was simplified PieWriter (talk) 00:01, 16 January...

the way that information is expressed, rather than just looking for a substitute word. Most of the article needs this sort of treatment. Amandajm (talk)...

was easier to detect such issues, but today I do not recognize enough substitutes in this area. I believe that language barriers and time zone differences...

good article. Statistics are essential, of course, but they are not a substitute for a full, balanced account of the growth of the state. Not a bad article...

related 2854 horror 2855 genetic 2856 painful 2857 accompany 2858 dumb 2859 substitute 2860 grasp 2861 settlement 2862 fluid 2863 independence 2864 dawn 2865...

 Special:Diff/9632800). I don't think all newcomers will quickly learn about template substitution. MathXplore (talk) 07:13, 29 July 2024 (UTC) The data in the simplewiki...

find ourselves irrevocably at war with communism and shall oppose any substitute for victory" as "in the 1900s wars were started by communists"; And to...

warnings are usually substituted so that the message stays exactly as it was at the time it was given. You can read more about substituted templates here....

informational pages, by substituting it, which is unhelpful because these pages are designed to show how to use it, and if it is substituted, that won't work...

can we remove the extra brackets? I know this has something to do with substitution, but I don't understand what the extra line at enwiki is doing. Thanks...

behavior is at lines 598 to 600, where the bot internally performs a regex substitution to transparently account for non-latin digits. The issue is that this...

@FusionSub @RiggedMint This was because {{Pgapropose}} was not substituted. I substituted it, which caused the template to turn into text, so now this problem...

DisillusionedBitterAndKnackered (talk) 22:18, 12 January 2009 (UTC) (accept no substitutes) I can definitely confirm that you are not Jonas; wrong part of the Globe...

(for example, for deaf or mute children) sign language is a very poor substitute. I am totally sceptical about the prospects of an international language...

{{{{{|safesubst:}}}#time: H:i, j F Y "(UTC)"|+7 days}} As it's not actually substituted, it will always show the time 7 days in the future. Depextual (talk)...

Creative Commons Deed This is a human-readable summary of (and not a substitute for) the license below. You are free: to Share—copy and redistribute the...

unavoidable. Overall, you're doing a good job! Just see if you can find some substitutes for complex words. Garsh (talk) 01:02, 17 June 2026 (UTC) Thanks Garsh2...

militant organization. Template:Infobox war faction mostly works as a substitute, but it world be nice to get both options working. Irtapil (talk) 22:49...