This page is a [[Wikipedia:{{{1}}}|{{{1}}}]] guideline for Wikipedia, reflecting how the authors of this encyclopedia address certain issues. This guideline is intended to help you improve Wikipedia content. Feel free to update this page as needed, but please use the discussion page to propose major changes.

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Usage

{{Guideline|<guideline category>|<category sort key>|<shortcuts>}}

Parameters

1. <guideline category>: only one of the following set can be used: content, deletion, how-to, naming conventions, notability criteria, and (proposed) proportion and emphasis.
2. <category sort key>: for e.g. notability or naming conventions guidelines, sort by what is in the parentical disambiguator, examples:
   • wikipedia:notability (websites): <category sort key> = Websites
   • wikipedia:naming conventions (people): <category sort key> = People
3. <shortcuts>: optional, typically links, e.g. [[WP:SHORT]]<br />[[WP:CUTS]]

See talk page for more elaborate description of this template and its use. For related Wikipedia header templates see Template messages/Project namespace.