Category:Wikipedia templates

This is a maintenance category, used for maintenance of the Wikipedia project. It is not part of the encyclopedia and contains non-article pages, or groups articles by status rather than subject. Do not include this category in content categories. This is a tracking category. It builds and maintains a list of pages primarily for the sake of the list itself. They are not part of the encyclopedia's categorization scheme. This category is hidden on its member pages—unless the corresponding user preference (Appearance → Show hidden categories) is set. These categories can be used to track, build and organize lists of pages needing "attention en masse" (for example, pages using deprecated syntax), or that may need to be edited at someone's earliest convenience. These categories also serve to aggregate members of several lists or sub-categories into a larger, more efficient list (discriminated by classifications).

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This is the top-level category for all Wikipedia templates. Individual templates should not be included in this category, but subcategorized according to their purpose, type or scope (e.g. the namespace or namespaces where they are used). The pages listed in this category are templates. This page is part of Wikipedia's administration and not part of the encyclopedia. Further template category notes This category contains pages in the template namespace. It should not be used to categorize articles or pages in other namespaces. To add a template to this category: If the template has a separate documentation page (usually called "Template:template name/doc"), add  [[Category:Wikipedia templates]] to the <includeonly> section at the bottom of that page. Otherwise, add  <noinclude>[[Category:Wikipedia templates]]</noinclude> to the end of the template code, making sure it starts on the same line as the code's last character.

Pages in this category should be moved to subcategories where applicable. This category may require frequent maintenance to avoid becoming too large. It should directly contain very few, if any, pages and should mainly contain subcategories.

For a list of all template categories, see the category Wikipedia template categories. This category groups templates according to use, type, etc.

Note that stub templates are not normally categorized; refer instead to Category:Stub categories and the list at Wikipedia:STUBS.

For citation templates, see Category:Citation templates.

For template management, including categories for templates requiring maintenance, see Category:Wikipedia template administration.

See also Category:Redirects to templates.