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Prevent edit warring by discussing such edits first on the article's talk page. An edit that one editor thinks is minor or clearly warranted might be seen as major or unwarranted by others. If you choose to be bold, provide the rationale for any change in the edit summary or on the article talk page.
Full details can be found in Help:Template, Wikipedia:Templates and m:Help:Advanced templates. A template is a Wikipedia page created to be included in other pages. It usually contains repetitive material that may need to show up on multiple articles or pages, often with customizable input.
Anatomy; Archaeological site; Artist; Artistic tool; Artwork; Cave; City; Clothing type; Cuisine; Custom; Dance; Drug, treatment, or device; Folk tale; Game; Library ...
Here's a common example: If you see the {{citation needed}} template in the edit box when you're editing an article, it's telling the software to go to the page [[Template:Citation needed]], get the text there (including formatting), and insert that text into the article when the article is displayed for readers.
This page includes a listing of policies and guidelines for English Wikipedia. Policy and guideline pages describe Wikipedia's principles and best-agreed practices. Policies are standards that all users should normally follow, while guidelines are meant to be best practices for following those standards in specific contexts.
Because there are a large number of guideline pages (over 200), they are subcategorized (using the {{subcat guideline}} template) according to their purpose.. Behavioral guidelines outline ways for editors to behave and interact with each other on talk pages and elsewhere at Wikipedia.
Advice about how to create a valid Wikipedia article Template parameters [Edit template data] Parameter Description Type Status type type The kind of article proposed: one of 'CORP', 'ORG', 'BIO', 'MUSIC, or 'FILM' String optional paid paid 'Yes' if the editor is a paid contributor String optional indent indent 'Yes' if the text is to be indented one level String optional The above ...
This template is used on approximately 3,700 pages and changes may be widely noticed. Test changes in the template's /sandbox or /testcases subpages, or in your own user subpage . Consider discussing changes on the talk page before implementing them.