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Explanation

Adding badges to a template can be done with Template:Badge and its equivalents.

To add a badge, use the form:

{{badge|alias|count}}

Please see Template:Badge for further details on the template usage itself.

WARNING: You must use the shorthand template to include a member in a given category. Badges with no category have no shorthand.

FURTHER NOTE: Because of the new badge auto-sync feature, it is unnecessary to add badges manually to member articles who already have accounts on MFGG's forums.

Instead, put this in the MFGGer Template:

| forumid = 1699

the forumid can be obtained from the last numbers in the link (u=0000) for a user's forum profile.

Badge List
Image	Alias	Shorthand	Category
	hh	{{hh}} or {{happyheart}}	Category: Members with Happy Heart badges
	shh	{{shh}} or {{superhappyheart}}	Category: Members with Super Happy Heart badges
	uhh	{{uhh}} or {{ultrahappyheart}}	Category: Members with Ultra Happy Heart badges
	bighelp
File:Badge 61.png	gotm
	superr
	supers
	submitter1
	admin	{{admin}}	Category: MFGG Administration
	mod	{{mod}}	Category: MFGG Administration
	tech	{{techadmin}}	Category: MFGG Administration
	site	{{sitestaff}}	Category: MFGG Administration
	sysop	{{wikisysop}}	Category: MFGG Administration
	badge	{{badgemod}}
	clam	{{opclam}}	Category: Operation CLAM staff
et al.	mfggxx (xx is year, 04, 05, 06 ...)	{{mfggxx}}	Relevant MFGG Awards category
	skull		(Deprecated)
	report		(Deprecated)
	kfc
	mistake
	santa	{{santa}}	Category: Members with Secret Santa badges
	event	{{forumevent}}	Category: Forum event participants
	goodcitizen
	wiki
	spra, sprb, sprc gamea, gameb, gamec drawa, drawb, drawc musa, musb, musc	Just put {{}} around the aliases...	Relevant competition category

History

Before Retriever II implemented badges into the forum software after the phpBB version of the forums were introduced, badges were actually used back in the earlier years. For a brief period of time in 2002, a member (currently unknown who) presented the idea of giving out small awards he believed certain members should receive. Eventually this idea grew to other members who performed the same activity, upon being grateful for receiving a textual award from this member. As it continued branching out to other members, it turned into actual award medals given out to members. The medals somehow reformed into being named "badges," and not long after, members were creating image badges for each other, which could then be put into their signatures for others to see. It's not known if the idea for badges on the forum software years later was sparked by this or not.

An example of a badge award given to another member.