Template:Guideline
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This template is for formal Wikipedia guidelines that can be classified more specifically by topic. For the rare case of a guideline that does not suit any of these categorizations, you can use {{Guideline}}.
Usage
{{Guideline|section=|guideline category|category sort key|shortcut|...|shortcut5}}
Template parameters
- For guideline category, use one of the following:
- behavioral guideline
- content guideline
- deletion guideline
- editing guideline
- naming convention
- notability guideline
style guideline– use {{MoS guideline}} instead
- For category sort key such as notability or naming conventions guidelines, use what is in the parenthetical disambiguator, and capitalise it. For example:
- Wikipedia:Notability (web): category sort key = Web
- Wikipedia:Naming conventions (people): category sort key; = People
- For the optional shortcut, use an established shortcut; it is not necessary to wrap it in
[[...]]. For example: WP:FOO- For the next optional shortcut, use another established shortcut. You can use up to five shortcuts in total, each as a separate parameter.
- The parameter
|section=ycan be used to tweak the wording to refer to a section instead of the whole page. This is only used when an guideline of a particular sort (e.g. a naming convention) is a section in a larger combined guideline, as atguidelines.
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
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
- {{Manual of Style(few if any are not)
- {{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 | policy}} – to solicit comments from the community about a proposed guideline, major changes to an existing guideline, or removing guideline status; please also notify Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)
- {{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.