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The language inside templates is the same language as regular wiki markup, but template writers tend to use the more complex available functions such as #if: statements. See Wikipedia's Help:Template and Wikimedia's mw:Help:Template , including all of "advanced functioning" help pages listed toward the bottom of that page .
Templates are a very powerful feature of MediaWiki, but can be confusing to new users and even experienced users can have difficulty making sense of the more complex ones. Templates should therefore be accompanied by documentation to improve usability. Template documentation should explain what a template does and how to use it.
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.
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No description. Template parameters [Edit template data] This template prefers block formatting of parameters. Parameter Description Type Status No parameters specified New policies require approval If you're writing a new policy, or substantially revising one, please remember to give the community significant time to consider your proposal. See WP:PROPOSAL for the current best practice on ...
Policies have wide acceptance among editors and describe standards all users should normally follow. All policy pages are in Wikipedia:List of policies and guidelines and Category:Wikipedia policies. For summaries of key policies, see List of policies. Guidelines are sets of best practices supported by consensus. Editors should attempt to ...
Template to list various related policies, e.g. {{template:policylist}}, {{template:Guideline list}}, {{[[template:Style]]}}, etc. (optional). Rationale. A few paragraphs on the need for the policy, the problems it seeks to avoid, the benefits it serves, how it addresses the needs or policies, the history, context inside or outside of Wikipedia ...
This template is to be placed in template documentation of user languages. It is intended primarily for userboxes (such as {{User en-ca-1}}), and it should not be placed on mainspace articles. It is written as (example for English): {{Languages|English|en}} You write only English (not language: the template writes that by itself).