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Policies and guidelines

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

What to type	What it makes	Where it goes
{{Policy}} links talk edit		Official policies top
{{Guideline}} links talk edit		Pages that document guidelines top
{{MoS-guideline}} links talk edit		Pages that document style guidelines top
{{subcat guideline| <guideline category>| <category sort key>}} links talk edit Guideline category should be one of: behavioral guideline content guideline deletion guideline how-to 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
{{Proposed}} links talk edit		Policy/guideline proposals top
{{Failed}} links talk edit		Failed policy/guideline proposals top
{{Historical}} links talk edit		Retired pages of historical interest top
{{Superseded|[[New page]]}}		Historical pages that have been superseded by other pages top
{{Underdiscussion|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
{{Underdiscussion|section|talk=Discussion Title}}		Sections of policies, guidelines or other pages which are being actively discussed at the talk page section
{{Underdiscussion-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
{{Disputedtag|talk=Discussion Title}}		Disputed "policy"/"guideline" designations top
{{Disputedtag|section=yes|talk=Discussion Title}}		Disputed sections of policies/guidelines section

Essays and related

What to type	What it makes	Where it goes
{{essay|WP:SHORT}}		Essays top
{{Supplement|[[Wikipedia:Policypage]]}}		Essays top
{{How-to}} links talk edit		top

Projects

What to type	What it makes	Where it goes
{{Project}} links talk edit		Active Wikiproject (usually added by using {{subst:WikiProject}} to create the project page) top
{{Inactive}} links talk edit		Inactive Wikiproject top
{{subst:Sandboxpaste}} links talk edit	{{Please leave this line alone (sandbox heading)}} <!-- We like people to see the notice. Put any testing content below it. -->	Wikipedia:Sandbox top
{{subst:Specialpageslist}} links talk edit	(quite long, see template)	Lists top
{{Villagepump}} links talk edit	(quite long, see template)	Village pump top
{{Villagepumppages}} links talk edit	(quite long, see template)	Village pump (section) top
{{subst:WikipediaFAQ}} links talk edit	(quite long, see template)	FAQ pages top and bottom
{{essay-project-note}} links talk edit	Template:Essay-project-note	Unofficial notability criteria defined by individual WikiProjects top

Department of Fun

What to type	What it makes	Where it goes
{{Humornotaccepted}} links talk edit		Humor pages that spoof and/or may have been proposed as policies or guidelines top
{{Humor}} links talk edit		For use in Wikipedia namespaces that aren't serious enough for publication

Other

What to type	What it makes	Where it goes
{{Shortcut|WP:SHORT}} links talk edit		Other project pages with