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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
Full details can be found in Help:Template, Wikipedia:Templates and m:Help:Advanced 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.
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 .
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.
A template is a Wikipedia page whose purpose is to be transcluded or substituted in another page. Templates are usually in the template namespace, but don't have to be. Pages can transclude or substitute any page, not just templates; what makes a page a template is the page's purpose.
For a list of tools that can help create some of the templates below, see: Wikipedia:Citation tools. Citations are commonly embedded in reference templates. For more information, see: Wikipedia:Footnotes.
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.). For example, to search for the word "string" within any templates (or template names):
Wikipedia:Article Layout Template. This is a dummy article to help you get started with creating pages in the wiki. The first paragraph is usually a short dictionary-style definition of the subject matter.
This is a documentation subpage for Template:Wikipedia templates. It may contain usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page.
Many template categories are available, see: Category:Wikipedia templates to browse through them. The English Wikipedia is a source of templates for hundreds of other Wikipedias and sister projects.