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Templates are pages that are embedded (transcluded) into other pages to allow for the repetition of information. Help:A quick guide to templates, a brief introduction on templates for beginners. Help:Template, the main technical help page on templates, provides information on creating and using templates.
A template is a Wikipedia page created to be included in other pages. It usually contains repetitive material that may need to show up on multiple articles or pages, often with customizable input.
Biography. Subject's complete name (birthdate – death) can be a lead-in to the subject's popular name. Describe the subject's nationality and profession (s) in which the subject is most notable. Provide a description of the subject's major contributions in the immediately relevant field (s) of notable expertise.
This guide presents the typical layout of Wikipedia articles, including the sections an article usually has, ordering of sections, and formatting styles for various elements of an article. For advice on the use of wiki markup, see Help:Editing; for guidance on writing style, see Manual of Style .
A template is a Wikipedia page created to be included in other pages. Templates usually contain repetitive material that might need to show up on a larger number of articles or pages. They are commonly used for boilerplate messages, standardized warnings or notices, infoboxes, navigational boxes, and similar purposes.
Citation templates are used to format citations in a consistent way, as an alternative to formatting the citations by hand. The use of citation templates is neither encouraged nor discouraged.
Template:Wikipedia templates. This is the {{ Wikipedia templates }} navigation box. It is suitable for transcluding at the bottoms of template documentation and templates guidelines . This template is a self-reference and so is part of the Wikipedia project rather than the encyclopaedic content.
English Wikipedia has an extensive word-search index of all templates, to allow a wiki-search, similar to googling (as with Google Search, Yahoo! Search, Bing.com, Dogpile.com, etc.).
Template documentation should explain what a template does and how to use it. It should be simple enough that a user without complete knowledge of the intricacies of template syntax—which includes many experienced contributors who focus their attention elsewhere—can use it correctly.
Usage. This template's initial visibility currently defaults to collapsed, meaning that it is hidden apart from its title bar. { {Wikipedia help pages|state=expanded}} will show the template expanded, i.e. fully visible.