Template:MoS guideline/sandbox
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This template does not auto-categorize. Manually add the appropriately subcategory of
[[Category:Wikipedia Manual of Style (sports)|Underwater wrestling]]
If your wikiproject's style-advice page has not been accepted as a site-wide guideline in a
Usage
{{MoS guideline|section= |SHORTCUT1 |...|SHORTCUT5}}
This template should only be used on pages that have received a general consensus as belonging to the Manual of Style.
If you're writing a new guideline, or substantially revising one, please remember to give the community significant time to consider your proposal. See
For a short introduction on how to go from a proposal to a Wikipedia style guideline, see Category:Wikipedia proposals and How to contribute to Wikipedia guidance.
To use, place one of the following usage strings at the top of the page and fill in the parameters:
Parameters
The template supports up to five numbered or unnamed parameters that specify
[[...]] markup does not need to be added, it can just be something like MOS:FOO).
The parameter |section=y can be used to change "This guideline" to read "This guideline section". This is only used when an MoS guideline is a section in a larger combined guideline, as at WP:Stand-alone lists which also contains a naming conventions guideline; it is not to be used for each section in an all-MOS page.
Examples
Code with one or more parameters for shortcut links:
{{MoS guideline|WP:MOS|WP:STYLE}}
New or greatly modified guidelines require community approval
If you or a wikiproject have drafted a new guideline or substantially revised one, the Wikipedia community must have significant time to consider the proposal and arrive at a
For style guidelines, this is usually done with a
For more suggestions and background on how to go from a proposal to a Wikipedia guideline, see Category:Wikipedia proposals and Wikipedia:How to contribute to Wikipedia guidance.
See also
- {{Style}} – the Manual of Style navigation sidebar
- {{Subcat guideline}} – to mark a specific type of guideline (content, behavioral, etc.); this is usually preferable to using this generic template
- {{subcat guideline}} template
- {{Supplement}} – for a special kind of Wikipedia essay that is a consensus-accepted supplement to a guideline
- {{Proposed}} – to solicit comments from the wider community before declaring a page to be a guideline; please also notify Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)
- {{Rfc | style}} – to solicit comments from the community about a proposed style guideline, major changes to an existing style guideline, or removing guideline status; please also notify Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)
- For other Template messages/Project namespace.