Template:WikiProject Templates/doc

This is a documentation subpage for Template:WikiProject Templates.
It may contain usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page.

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This template is used on approximately 34,000 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.

Usage

Place this on the talk page of relevant Wikipedia, Help or Category pages, but generally not on the talk pages of templates or modules:

Templates

	This template (like all templates) is within the scope of WikiProject Templates, a group dedicated to improving the maintenance of Wikipedia's templates. This particular template is especially important to the project because it is used in the maintenance of other templates. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Templateswikipedia:WikiProject TemplatesTemplate:WikiProject TemplatesTemplates
	This template should only be transcluded in the Wikipedia talk, Help talk, or Category talk namespace(s).

This WikiProject banner template uses Module:WikiProject banner, a meta-template for easily creating and maintaining project banners. Please report any errors or feature requests to Module talk:WikiProject banner. Information or warnings about the template are below:

Automatic parameter checking is enabled. Create the tracking category to track invalid parameters.

The following categories are required for the banner to work correctly. Please either create these categories or adjust the banner so that they are not required.

Category:Pages with templates in the wrong namespace

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For templates used in maintaining or documenting other templates, use:

Templates

	This template (like all templates) is within the scope of WikiProject Templates, a group dedicated to improving the maintenance of Wikipedia's templates. This particular template is especially important to the project because it is used in the maintenance of other templates. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Templateswikipedia:WikiProject TemplatesTemplate:WikiProject TemplatesTemplates
	This template should only be transcluded in the Wikipedia talk, Help talk, or Category talk namespace(s).

This WikiProject banner template uses Module:WikiProject banner, a meta-template for easily creating and maintaining project banners. Please report any errors or feature requests to Module talk:WikiProject banner. Information or warnings about the template are below:

Automatic parameter checking is enabled. Create the tracking category to track invalid parameters.

The following categories are required for the banner to work correctly. Please either create these categories or adjust the banner so that they are not required.

Category:Pages with templates in the wrong namespace

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For modules used in maintaining or documenting other templates, use:

Templates

	This template (like all templates) is within the scope of WikiProject Templates, a group dedicated to improving the maintenance of Wikipedia's templates. This particular template is especially important to the project because it is used in the maintenance of other templates. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Templateswikipedia:WikiProject TemplatesTemplate:WikiProject TemplatesTemplates
	This template should only be transcluded in the Wikipedia talk, Help talk, or Category talk namespace(s).

This WikiProject banner template uses Module:WikiProject banner, a meta-template for easily creating and maintaining project banners. Please report any errors or feature requests to Module talk:WikiProject banner. Information or warnings about the template are below:

Automatic parameter checking is enabled. Create the tracking category to track invalid parameters.

The following categories are required for the banner to work correctly. Please either create these categories or adjust the banner so that they are not required.

Category:Pages with templates in the wrong namespace

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Optional parameters

listas – This parameter, which is the equivalent of the DEFAULTSORT sortkey that should be placed on all biographical articles, is a sortkey for the article talk page (e.g. for John Doe, use <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|listas=Doe, John so that the talk page will show up in the D's and not the J's of the various assessment and administrative categories). This is important because it is one source used by those who set DEFAULTSORT on the article; consider also setting the DEFAULTSORT for the article when setting this parameter. For more information about this, please see Wikipedia:Categorization of people § Ordering names in a category.
If the article is using {{WikiProject banner shell}} then it is preferable to add <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|listas= to that template instead of a project banner template. Putting the parameter on more than one template is not required.
template_for_template_maintenance, module_for_template_maintenance – set <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|template_for_template_maintenance=yes or <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|module_for_template_maintenance=yes if the banner is being used on the talk page of one of the templates/modules used for template maintenance, such as Template talk:Tfm or Module talk:Template test case. If the banner is used in Template talk: or Module talk: namespaces without one of these parameters, the page will be placed in Category:Pages with templates in the wrong namespace.
category – set <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|category=no if, and only if, a banner is being used for demonstration or testing purposes, to prevent unnecessary or undesirable categorization. Otherwise, omit this parameter.

This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. See a monthly parameter usage report for Template:WikiProject Templates in articles based on its TemplateData.

TemplateData for WikiProject Templates

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