Wikipedia:Template index/Wikipedia namespace

The Wikipedia:Project namespace includes Wikipedia official policies and guidelines, process pages, discussion pages, optional essays, informative pages, humorous and historical pages.

Policies and guidelines

For the rules concerning the use of these tags, see WP:Policies and guidelines.

What to type	What it makes	Where it goes
{{policy}} edit		Official policies top
{{Legal policy}} edit		Official policies top
{{Procedural policy}} edit		Official policies top
{{guideline}} edit		Pages that document guidelines top
{{MoS-guideline}} edit		Pages that document style guidelines top
{{subcat guideline| <guideline category>| <category sort key>| <shortcuts>}} edit Guideline category should be one of: behavioral guideline content guideline deletion guideline editing guideline naming convention notability guideline style guideline	Example for naming convention as <guideline category>:	For tagging guidelines of specific categories top Use only available (sub-) categories
{{disputedtag|talk=Discussion Title}}		Disputed "policy"/"guideline" designations top
{{disputedtag|section=yes|talk=Discussion Title}}		Disputed sections of policies/guidelines section
{{proposed}} edit		Policy/guideline proposals top
{{draft proposal}} edit		Drafts of policy/guideline proposals top
{{under discussion|status|talk=Discussion Title}}		Policies and guidelines whose status as policy or guideline is being actively discussed, although their current status is not contested. top
{{under discussion|section|talk=Discussion Title}}		Sections of policies, guidelines or other pages which are being actively discussed at the talk page section
{{under discussion-inline|talk=Discussion Title}}		Specific wordings or sentences in policies, guidelines or other pages which are being actively discussed at the talk page within text
{{failed}} edit		Failed policy/guideline proposals top
{{dormant}} edit		Proposals that have become dormant through lack of discussion top
{{Polarized proposal}} edit		Currently unable to compromise policy/guideline proposals top

How-to and information

Further information: WP:INFOPAGES

What to type	What it makes	Notes
{{Information page}} edit		The banner template for administration pages that are more just informational and non-opinionated like WP:GOV.
{{Wikipedia how to}} edit		The banner template for administration pages that are more directly instructional and non-opinionated like H:EDIT.
{{supplement|pages=[[Wikipedia:Policy]] page}}		Use this template carefully, only when there is a well-established consensus at the relevant policy or guideline page to link to the administration page in question from the policy or guideline like WP:BRD.
{{Process header}} edit	Wikipedia namespace	A blank template meant to be populated and used at the top of a page in the Wikipedia and help namespace.

Essays

Further information: WP:ESSAYPAGES

What to type	What it makes	Where it goes/Notes
{{essay|WP:SHORT}}		Essays top the banner template for administration pages that are more opinionated then instructional or technical, there are several parameters and variations.
{{orphaned essay}} edit		Essays top
{{Notability essay}} edit		top
{{Civility essay}} edit		top
{{Behavioral essay}} edit		top
{{Categorization essay}} edit		top
{{Deletion essay}} edit		top

WikiProjects

Further information: WP:WikiProjects

See also: Wikipedia:Template messages/WikiProject banners

What to type	What it makes	Where it goes and notes
{{WikiProject status}} edit	Parameters: |active, |semi-active, |inactive, |defunct	Displays the activity status of a WikiProject by using optional parameters top
{{WikiProject advice}} edit		Used on essays and other advice pages that are written by one or more WikiProjects top
{{WikiProject notability essay}} edit		Unofficial notability criteria defined by individual WikiProjects top
{{WikiProject style advice}} edit		Unofficial style advice defined by individual WikiProjects top
{{WikiProject content advice}} edit		Unofficial content advice defined by individual WikiProjects top

Historical and under development

Further information: WP:HISPAGES and Wikipedia:Template messages/Maintenance

What to type	What it makes	Notes
{{historical}} edit		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}} edit		This template is for essay pages actively undergoing a major edit.
{{Under construction}} edit		This template is for administration pages actively undergoing a major edit.
{{In use}} edit		Placed at the top of an administration page you are actively editing for a short period of time
{{WP Future}} edit		Pages using this template will be placed into Category:Inactive project pages unless the parameter category=no is given
{{Freq}} edit		This template is meant to be used at the top of a page in the Wikipedia and help namespace.
{{Brainstorming}} edit		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

Main page: Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup

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

Humorous

Further information: Wikipedia:Department of Fun

What to type	What it makes	Notes
{{humor}} edit		For use on Wikipedia and User namespaces pages that are not serious enough for publication in the mainspace.
{{humorantipolicy}} edit		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

Further information: Category:Wikipedia header templates

What to type	What it makes	Where it goes
{{admin backlog}} edit		Maintenance categories and pages with a backlog that require an administrator top
{{backlog}} edit		Maintenance categories and pages with a backlog top
{{shortcut|WP:SHORT}} edit		Other project pages with shortcut(s) top
{{subst:sandboxpaste}} edit	{{Please leave this line alone (sandbox heading)}} <!-- We like people to see the notice. Put any testing content below it. -->	Wikipedia:Sandbox top