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The Wikipedia includes Wikipedia official policies and guidelines.

Historical and under development

What to type What it makes Notes
{{historical}}
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For a former policy, use {{Historical|type=policy}}. For a former guideline, use {{Historical|type=guideline}}
{{superseded|[[New page]]}} For process and infomation pages that have been superseded by other pages.
{{WikiProject status|Defunct}} Set inactive=yes parameter from {{WikiProject status}}.
{{Essay in development}}
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This template is for essay pages actively undergoing a major edit.
{{Under construction}}
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This template is for administration pages actively undergoing a major edit.
{{In use}}
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Placed at the top of an administration page you are actively editing for a short period of time
{{WP Future}}
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Pages using this template will be placed into Category:Inactive project pages unless the parameter category=no is given
{{Freq}}
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This template is meant to be used at the top of a page in the Wikipedia and help namespace.
{{Brainstorming}}
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This template is meant to be used at the top of a page in the Wikipedia and help namespace currently being developed.

Notices and warnings

What to type What it makes Notes
{{Disputed tag}}
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template to dispute whether a page (or a section on a page) has properly been accorded policy or guideline status.
{{Under discussion}}
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If the discussion concerns a proposed change to the status of a policy or guideline page then you may use the status parameter (see Policies and guidelines above).
{{Notice}}
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A blank template used at the top of administration pages that can be populated manually.
{{nutshell}}
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To present a concise summary at the top of administration pages that can be populated manually.
{{Update}}
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Used to denote process, how-to and information pages that contain old or out-of-date information that needs updating.
{{Warning}}
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A blank template used at the top of administration pages that can be populated manually.
{{Caution}}
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A blank template used at the top of administration pages that can be populated manually.
{{Purpose}}
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To be used for when an essay, how-to or information page reason for existing is unclear.

Humorous

What to type What it makes Notes
{{humor}}
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For use on Wikipedia and User namespaces pages that are not serious enough for publication in the mainspace.
{{humorantipolicy}}
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Humor pages that spoof and/or may have been proposed as policies.or guidelines.
{{Humorous essay}} For humorous essays in both the Wikipedia and User namespaces.

Other

What to type What it makes Where it goes
{{admin backlog}}
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Maintenance categories and pages with a backlog that require an administrator

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{{backlog}}
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Maintenance categories and pages with a backlog

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{{shortcut|WP:SHORT}}
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Other project pages with shortcut(s)
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{{subst:sandboxpaste}}
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{{Please leave this line alone (sandbox heading)}} <!-- We like people to see the notice. Put any testing content below it. --> Wikipedia:Sandbox

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{{subst:specialpageslist}}
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Special pages (maintenance) Information
Broken redirects
Dead-end pages Dead-end pages
Dormant pages Forgotten articles
Double redirects Double redirects
Lonely pages Orphaned articles
Long pages
New pages New pages patrol
New pages feed Page curation
Protected pages Protection policy
Short pages
Uncategorized pages Categorization
Uncategorized categories
Uncategorized templates
Unused categories
Unused files (images)
Unused templates
Without interwiki links
Most interwiki links
Wanted pages
Most-wanted articles
See also: Maintenance departments
Lists
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