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This Template:Name is an example template, used for demonstration. To learn about templates, see Help:Template or Help:A quick guide to templates . Template documentation [ view ] [ edit ] [ history ] [ purge ]
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 ...
This is a quick overview of templates. 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.
For full description of a template and the parameters which can be used with it—click the template name (e.g. {} or {}) in the "template" column of the table below. Required field(s) are indicated in bold; Copy and paste the text under "common usage" to use the template. Following each example is the resulting article text.
Any other templates: See Category:Wikipedia templates Topics referred to by the same term This page is a list of project pages associated with the same title or shortcut.
The name of a template is the name of the wikipedia page (which is also the title of the page). The namespace is normally left off if it is "Template" (which it almost always is). Furthermore, it is customary to write the name with double braces, like a template call, to emphasize that it names a template.
The following lists ways of hunting or finding templates of Wikipedia markup-language (or markup macros) [1] by searching for related words. Also note that the word "template" has another connotation, mainly used by Wikipedia system admins, as a verb to refer to issuing a canned message to users, based on putting templates on user talk-pages.
The Template namespace on Wikipedia is used to store templates, which contain Wiki markup intended for inclusion on multiple pages, usually via transclusion.Although the Template namespace is used for storing most templates, it is possible to transclude and substitute from other namespaces, [1] and so some template pages are placed in other namespaces, such as the User namespace.