Template:Draft proposal
The following is a draft working towards a proposal for adoption as a Wikipedia process of gathering consensus for adoption. Thus references or links to this page should not describe it as policy, guideline, nor yet even as a proposal. |
Usage
{{Proposal|WP:SHORTCUT}}
or
{{Draft proposal|WP:SHORTCUT}}
The only parameter is optional. If supplied, it displays as a link to the appropriate shortcut page for the proposal. (Note that this is not automatic; MediaWiki cannot determine the shortcut from the page itself. You need to discover or create the shortcut yourself.)
Adds pages to Category:Wikipedia proposals or Category:Wikipedia draft proposals if {{Draft proposal}}
is used. Categorization of drafts can be suppressed with the |categories=no
parameter.
For related Wikipedia header templates see
Purpose
- See WP:PROPOSALfor advice on advertising your proposed advice page to the community
The Wikipedian community
When a proposal is being advanced it is usual to tag the page with {{
{{Policy}}
or {{Guideline}}
(doing so pre-emptively may be viewed as disruptive
If a proposal is still in the early formative stages and it is desired to gather creative suggestions from others on what purpose and direction such a proposal should have, one may wish to temporarily use the {{
Usage
{{Proposal
| 1 =
| 2 =
| 3 =
| 4 =
| 5 =
| type =
| discussion =
| section =
| categories =
| category =
| nocat =
}}
The parameters are as follows:
1
: First parameter, specifies a shortcut.2
: Same as 1 (for multiple shortcuts)3
: Same as 1 (for multiple shortcuts)4
: Same as 1 (for multiple shortcuts)5
: Same as 1 (for multiple shortcuts)type
: The dealio of what kind of thing it's being proposed for. The default is "policy, guideline, or process".discussion
: Link to specific discussion. Default is to link to the page's talk page (e.g. if your proposal is at Wikipedia:Meowing guidelines, it will link to Wikipedia talk:Meowing guidelines), but it can be set up to link elsewhere, like Module talk:Meowing#Proposal with|discussion=Module talk:Meowing#Proposal
– don't include any[[...|...]]
markup.section
: Section link when using the default discussion page location (e.g. if your proposal is at Wikipedia:Meowing guidelines, add|section=Proposal
to link to Wikipedia talk:Meowing guidelines#Proposal)category
: Replace Category:Wikipedia draft proposals with something else, like Category:Wikipedia draft proposals about meowing.categories
: I don't know what this does.nocat
: If you include anything here, it excludes the page from being default categorized in Category:Wikipedia draft proposals.
See also
- Wikipedia:How to contribute to Wikipedia guidance
- Wikipedia:Policy writing is hard
- Category:Wikipedia draft proposals
- Category:Wikipedia proposals
- )
- )
- Template:Essay(edit talk links history)
- )
- Template:Dormant(edit talk links history)
- Template:Guideline(edit talk links history)
- Template:Historical(edit talk links history)
- Template:Policy(edit talk links history)
- )
- Template:Supplement(edit talk links history)
- Template:Superseded(edit talk links history)
- {{brainstorming}}