Template:ArticleIcon

This is the "root" template for all article icons. It is not intended to be placed on pages directly, but rather to be used for building one template per each icon. For the list of all current such templates, see Special:PrefixIndex/Template:ArticleIcon.

The sort key must be unique amongst all icons and is sorted ASCII-betically. Therefore, the standard is to use half-numerical keys such as "0.100-name" and "2.250-banana", leveraging numbers to form a system of where things belong, like the Dewey Decimal System for books. Why the overkill number of digits? Because it's kind of a pain to update everything if we ever have to add another digit.
 * 0.### : game icons (what games is the subject in)
 * 1.### : page tag icons (what improvement tags are present on the page)
 * 2.### : page status icons (is the page protected, featured, etc)

Note how this template uses  instead of. This is because the sort key is not parsed as a parameter when the latter is used.