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
| What to type | What it makes | Where it goes |
|---|---|---|
| {{policy}} | Official policies top | |
| {{Legal policy}} | Official policies top | |
| {{Procedural policy}} | Official policies top | |
| {{guideline}} | Pages that document guidelines top | |
| {{MoS-guideline}} | Pages that document style guidelines top | |
{{subcat guideline|Guideline category should be one of:
| 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}} | Policy/guideline proposals top | |
| {{draft proposal}} | 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}} | [under discussion] | Specific wordings or sentences in policies, guidelines or other pages which are being actively discussed at the talk page within text |
| {{failed}} | Failed policy/guideline proposals top | |
| {{dormant}} | Proposals that have become dormant through lack of discussion top | |
| {{Polarized proposal}} | Currently unable to compromise policy/guideline proposals top |
How-to and information
| What to type | What it makes | Notes | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| {{Information page}} | The banner template for administration pages that are more just informational and non-opinionated like WP:GOV. | |||||
| {{Wikipedia how to}} | 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}} |
| A blank template meant to be populated and used at the top of a page in the Wikipedia and help namespace. |
Essays
| 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}} | Essays top | |
| {{Notability essay}} | top | |
| {{Civility essay}} | top | |
| {{Behavioral essay}} | top | |
| {{Categorization essay}} | top | |
| {{Deletion essay}} | top |
WikiProjects
| What to type | What it makes | Where it goes and notes |
|---|---|---|
| {{WikiProject status}} | Parameters: |active, |semi-active, |inactive, |defunct | Displays the activity status of a WikiProject by using optional parameters top |
| {{WikiProject advice}} | Used on essays and other advice pages that are written by one or more WikiProjects top | |
| {{WikiProject notability essay}} | Unofficial notability criteria defined by individual WikiProjects top | |
| {{WikiProject style advice}} | Unofficial style advice defined by individual WikiProjects top | |
| {{WikiProject content advice}} | Unofficial content advice defined by individual WikiProjects top |
Historical and under development
| What to type | What it makes | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| {{historical}} | 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}} | This template is for essay pages actively undergoing a major edit. | |
| {{Under construction}} | This template is for administration pages actively undergoing a major edit. | |
| {{In use}} | Placed at the top of an administration page you are actively editing for a short period of time | |
| {{WP Future}} | Pages using this template will be placed into Category:Inactive project pages unless the parameter category=no is given | |
| {{Freq}} | This template is meant to be used at the top of a page in the Wikipedia and help namespace. | |
| {{Brainstorming}} | 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}} | template to dispute whether a page (or a section on a page) has properly been accorded policy or guideline status. | |
| {{Under discussion}} | 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}} | A blank template used at the top of administration pages that can be populated manually. | |
| {{nutshell}} | To present a concise summary at the top of administration pages that can be populated manually. | |
| {{Update}} | Used to denote process, how-to and information pages that contain old or out-of-date information that needs updating. | |
| {{Warning}} | A blank template used at the top of administration pages that can be populated manually. | |
| {{Caution}} | A blank template used at the top of administration pages that can be populated manually. | |
| {{Purpose}} | 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}} | For use on Wikipedia and User namespaces pages that are not serious enough for publication in the mainspace. | |
| {{humorantipolicy}} | 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}} | Maintenance categories and pages with a backlog that require an administrator top | ||
| {{backlog}} | Maintenance categories and pages with a backlog top | ||
{{shortcut|WP:SHORT}} | Other project pages with shortcut(s) top | ||
| {{subst:sandboxpaste}} | {{Please leave this line alone (sandbox heading)}} <!-- We like people to see the notice. Put any testing content below it. --> | Wikipedia:Sandbox top |
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