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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

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`{{subcat guideline\| <guideline category>\| <category sort key>\| <shortcuts>}}` Templat:Lts/ 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>*: Templat:Wikipedia subcat guideline	For tagging guidelines of specific categories top Use only available (sub-) categories
`{{disputedtag\|talk=Discussion Title}}`	Templat:Disputedtag	Disputed "policy"/"guideline" designations top
`{{disputedtag\|section=yes\|talk=Discussion Title}}`	Templat:Disputedtag	Disputed sections of policies/guidelines section
Policy/guideline proposals top
Drafts of policy/guideline proposals top
`{{under discussion\|status\|talk=Discussion Title}}`	Templat:Under discussion	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}}`	Templat:Under discussion	Sections of policies, guidelines or other pages which are being actively discussed at the talk page section
`{{under discussion-inline\|talk=Discussion Title}}`	Templat:Under discussion-inline	Specific wordings or sentences in policies, guidelines or other pages which are being actively discussed at the talk page within text
Failed policy/guideline proposals top
Proposals that have become dormant through lack of discussion top
Currently unable to compromise policy/guideline proposals top

How-to and information

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The banner template for administration pages that are more just informational and non-opinionated like WP:GOV.
The banner template for administration pages that are more directly instructional and non-opinionated like H:EDIT.
`{{supplement\|pages=[[Wikipedia:Policy]] page}}`	Templat:Supplement	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.
A blank template meant to be populated and used at the top of a page in the Wikipedia and help namespace.

Essays

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{{essay|WP:SHORT}}

This is an essay.

It contains the advice or opinions of one or more Wikipedia contributors. This page is not an encyclopedia article, nor is it one of Wikipedia's policies or guidelines, as it has not been thoroughly vetted by the community. Some essays represent widespread norms; others only represent minority viewpoints.

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Essays

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the banner template for administration pages that are more opinionated then instructional or technical, there are several parameters and variations.

Essays

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WikiProjects

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{{WikiProject status}}
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This is a WikiProject, an area for focused collaboration among Wikipedians. New participants are welcome; please feel free to participate!

Parameters: |active, |semi-active, |inactive, |defunct

Displays the activity status of a WikiProject by using optional parameters

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Used on essays and other advice pages that are written by one or more WikiProjects

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Unofficial notability criteria defined by individual WikiProjects

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Unofficial style advice defined by individual WikiProjects

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Unofficial content advice defined by individual WikiProjects

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Historical and under development

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For a former policy, use {{Historical|type=policy}}. For a former guideline, use {{Historical|type=guideline}}

{{superseded|[[New page]]}} Templat:Superseded For process and infomation pages that have been superseded by other pages.

This WikiProject is defunct.
Consider looking for related projects for help or ask at the Teahouse.

If you feel this project may be worth reviving, please discuss with related projects first. Feel free to change this tag if the parameters were changed in error.

Set inactive=yes parameter from {{WikiProject status}}.

This template is for essay pages actively undergoing a major edit.

This template is for administration pages actively undergoing a major edit.

Placed at the top of an administration page you are actively editing for a short period of time

Pages using this template will be placed into Category:Inactive project pages unless the parameter category=no is given

This template is meant to be used at the top of a page in the Wikipedia and help namespace.

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

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What to type	What it makes	Notes Templat:Tlrow	template to dispute whether a page (or a section on a page) has properly been accorded policy or guideline status.
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).
A blank template used at the top of administration pages that can be populated manually.
To present a concise summary at the top of administration pages that can be populated manually.
Used to denote process, how-to and information pages that contain old or out-of-date information that needs updating.
A blank template used at the top of administration pages that can be populated manually.
A blank template used at the top of administration pages that can be populated manually.
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 Templat:Tlrow	For use on Wikipedia and User namespaces pages that are not serious enough for publication in the mainspace. Templat:Tlrow	Humor pages that spoof and/or may have been proposed as policies or guidelines.
{{Humorous essay}}	Templat:Humorous essay	For humorous essays in both the Wikipedia and User namespaces.

Other

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Maintenance categories and pages with a backlog that require an administrator top
Maintenance categories and pages with a backlog top
`{{shortcut\|WP:SHORT}}` Templat:Lts/	Shortcut WP:SHORT	Other project pages with shortcut(s) top
{{subst:sandboxpaste}} Templat:Lts/	`{{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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