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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.
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.
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.
Wikipedia:Navigation templates, templates that link between multiple articles belonging to the same topic; Wikipedia:List of infoboxes for infoboxes, which are small panels that summarize key features of the page's subject. Wikipedia:Categorization for templates used for categories; Wikipedia:Citation templates for templates used to format ...
So don't open the References section to edit that footnote: All you'll see is the section heading and the <references/> tag (or its variant, the {} template). To edit an existing footnote, either go into edit mode for the entire article, or preferably go into edit mode for just the section where the text for the footnote is located.
Wikitext editing using the Source Editor is chosen by clicking the Edit source tab at the top of a Wikipedia page (or on a section-edit link). This opens an editable copy of the page, showing all the wikitext used there, and the Source Editor toolbar offers simple menu options to add or change the formatting.
You can create and edit the template documentation clicking in this pane [edit] link. Template documentation subpages using {{documentation}} are named and formatted using the following general pattern, for consistency. Suppose your template is named Template:X. Edit the template and append the following at the end of the template code, or use ...
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