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This template is used to construct wikitext links to files. It is primarily useful for templates that use complicated logic to make file links. Simple file links should be made with wikitext markup directly, as it uses less resources than this template. For help with wikitext file markup please refer to the documentation at mediawiki.org.
Most protected templates already have a sandbox subpage and testcases subpage. The names of these pages are default. At the bottom of each template's page are links to create/edit the template's sandbox and testcases pages. For example, here are the subpages for {{FlagIOCmedalist}}:
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Donate
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us
This module, migrated from origins in Module:Hatnote, provides functionality for formatting links for display, including that powering the {{format link}} template.. It can pretty-format section links with the section symbol ("§") and appropriate whitespace, it automatically escapes category and file names with the colon trick, and includes functionality for italicizing the page or section ...
To get there, type "Template:foo" in the search box (see search), or make a wikilink like [[Template:foo]] somewhere, such as in the sandbox, and click on it. Once you are there, just click "edit" or "edit this page" at the very top of the page (not the documentation edit button lower down) and edit it in the same way that you would any other page.
The /doc, /sandbox and /testcases pages should normally be in the subject namespace, except in the namespaces that do not have the MediaWiki subpage feature enabled: Main, File, and MediaWiki. (Categories can have subpages, but documentation is created in the Category talk namespace to prevent creating empty categories.
If the documentation page does not exist, the toolbar is replaced with a [create][purge] link. The [create] link automatically creates the page with preloaded text with the basic documentation syntax. Preload text is also used for the /sandbox and /testcases [create] links. The preload page for the /doc [create] link is Template:Documentation ...