Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Article message boxes

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This page in a nutshell: Article message boxes have a standard design and colours. They use CSS and a meta template to achieve this.

There is a standard and consistent design for article message boxes — templates which are inserted into articles/sections, and identify problems or issues with the article. The design was standardized and implemented in September 2007.