Template:Subcat guideline/doc

Usage

{{Subcat guideline/doc|<guideline category>|<category sort key>|<shortcut>|<shortcut>|...}}

New guidelines require approval

If you're writing a new guideline, or substantially revising one, please remember to give the community significant time to consider your proposal. See WP:PROPOSAL for the current best practice on advertising proposals.

For a short introduction on how to go from a proposal to a Wikipedia style guideline, see: Category:Wikipedia proposals and How to contribute to Wikipedia guidance.

Parameters

1. <guideline category>: one of the following should be used:

   • behavioral guideline
   • content guideline
   • deletion guideline
   • editing guideline
   • naming convention
   • notability guideline
   • style guideline

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. <shortcut>: optional, shortcut like for instance WP:SHORT
4. <shortcut>: Optional second shortcut. Five shortcuts can be passed in total, each as a separate parameter.

See also

• For related Wikipedia header templates see Template messages/Project namespace.
• {{Proposed}} to solicit comments from the wider community before declaring a page to be a guideline
• {{rfc|policy}} and {{rfc|style}}, to solicit comments from the community about a proposed guideline, major changes to an existing guideline, or removing guideline status
• {{MoS-guideline}} for the few style guidelines that are actually part of the Manual of Style