About

This template creates an inline image that is used in metapages such as Wikipedia:Vital articles and/or in user pages.

Usage

Basic usage
{{icon|code}}
{{icon|class=code}}
Custom size
{{icon|code|size=size}}

Parameters

  • 1 or class - the icon code. See the table below for a list of available codes.
  • size - a custom icon size, e.g. "30px". The default size is "16x16px" (16 by 16 pixels).

Icon codes

Icon Description Code Aliases
A-Class article a}}
Audited article of limited subject matter aa}}
A-Class article candidate acc}} aac, acn
B-Class article b}}
Wikipedia book book}}
Bplus-Class article bplus}} b+
B-Class review br}} bcr
C-Class article c}}
Category category}} cat, categ
Error creating thumbnail: Cleanup work cleanup}}
Commons page commons}}
Error creating thumbnail: Demoted article da}}
Error creating thumbnail: Demoted A-Class article dac}} daa
Error creating thumbnail: Delisted good article dga}}
Error creating thumbnail: Disambiguation page disambiguation}} dab, disamb, disambig
Error creating thumbnail: Did You Know? dyk}}
Error creating thumbnail: Did You Know? dyk2}}
Error creating thumbnail: Essay essay}}
Error creating thumbnail: Featured article fa}}
Featured article candidate fac}} fan
Error creating thumbnail: Featured article review far}}
Error creating thumbnail: Featured article removal candidate farc}}
Error creating thumbnail: Former featured article ffa}} dfa
Error creating thumbnail: Failed featured article candidate ffac}} nofa
Error creating thumbnail: Former featured list ffl}} dfl
Error creating thumbnail: Failed featured list candidate fflc}} nofl
Error creating thumbnail: Former featured picture ffp}}
Error creating thumbnail: Former featured portal ffpo}}
Error creating thumbnail: Former featured sound ffs}}
Error creating thumbnail: Former featured topic fft}} dft
Error creating thumbnail: Failed good article nominee fgan}} gaf, gf, noga
Error creating thumbnail: Featured list fl}}
Featured list candidate flc}} fln
Error creating thumbnail: Featured list removal candidate flrc}} flr
Four Award four}} 4a
Error creating thumbnail: Featured picture fp}}
Featured picture candidate fpc}} fpn
Error creating thumbnail: Before the featured portal process ceased in 2017, this had been designated as a featured portal. fpo}}
Featured portal candidate fpoc}}
Error creating thumbnail: Featured portal review fpor}}
Error creating thumbnail: Featured sound fs}}
Featured sound candidate fsc}}
Error creating thumbnail: Featured topic ft}}
Error creating thumbnail: Featured topic candidate ftc}} ftn
Error creating thumbnail: Featured topic removal candidate ftrc}}
Error creating thumbnail: Good article ga}}
Error creating thumbnail: Good article, 2nd opinion ga2}}
Error creating thumbnail: Good article on hold gah}}
Error creating thumbnail: Good article nominee gan}} gac
Error creating thumbnail: Good article reassessment gar}}
Error creating thumbnail: Guild of Copy Editors goce}}
Error creating thumbnail: Good topic gt}}
Error creating thumbnail: Good topic candidate gtc}} gtn
Error creating thumbnail: Good topic removal candidate gtrc}}
Error creating thumbnail: File image}} file
Error creating thumbnail: In The News itn}}
List-Class article list}} comparison
Error creating thumbnail: MediaWiki mediawiki}}
Error creating thumbnail: Meta-wiki page meta}}
Million Award million}}
Error creating thumbnail: Module module}}
Non-article page na}}
Error creating thumbnail: Needed article needed}}
Error creating thumbnail: Unknown-Class article no}}
Error creating thumbnail: Failed A-Class article candidate noac}} faac
Error creating thumbnail: On This Day otd}}
Outline outline}}
Error creating thumbnail: Phabricator phabricator}} phab
Portal portal}}
Picture of the Day potd}}
Portal peer review ppr}}
Peer review pr}}
Error creating thumbnail: Project page project}}
Error creating thumbnail: Question q}} question
Error creating thumbnail: Quality image on Wikimedia Commons qi}}
Redirect redirect}} red, redir
Error creating thumbnail: Start-Class article start}}
Error creating thumbnail: Stub-Class article stub}}
Template template}} temp, templ
Today's Featured Article tfa}}
Today's Featured List tfl}}
Error creating thumbnail: Valued image on Wikimedia Commons vi}}
Error creating thumbnail: Vital article vital}}
Error creating thumbnail: Valued picture vp}}
Error creating thumbnail: Valued picture candidate vpc}}
Error creating thumbnail: Wikibooks page wikibooks}}
Error creating thumbnail: Wikidata page wikidata}}
Wikinews page wikinews}}
Wikipedia page wikipedia}}
WikiProject wikiproject}}
Error creating thumbnail: Wikiquote page wikiquote}}
Error creating thumbnail: Wikisource page wikisource}}
Error creating thumbnail: Wikispecies page wikispecies}}
Error creating thumbnail: Wikitech wikitech}}
Wikiversity page wikiversity}}
Error creating thumbnail: Wikivoyage page wikivoyage}}
Error creating thumbnail: Wiktionary page wiktionary}}

See also

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. See a monthly parameter usage report for Template:Icon in articles based on its TemplateData.

TemplateData for Icon

This template creates an inline icon-sized image. Please refer to 'Template:Icon/doc' for the list of supported values.

Template parameters

ParameterDescriptionTypeStatus
Icon1 class

The identifier or name of the icon to be displayed.

Default
Lineoptional
sizesize

The size of the icon to display, e.g. "30px".

Default
16x16px
Lineoptional