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This guideline is a part of the English Misplaced Pages's Manual of Style, and it should be followed except where common sense warrants an exception. Please ensure that any edits to this page reflect consensus.Shortcut
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Template usage notes
  • This template should only be used on pages belonging to the Manual of Style.
  • For style guides that are not part of the MoS, use {{Subcat guideline}} instead.
  • For advice that is not a Misplaced Pages guideline, use the {{Essay}} or one of its variants, instead.
  • Please do not apply this template to any page without first advertising your proposal to other editors via a request for comments, as described below.

{{MoS guideline}} is used on guideline pages (or sections thereof) that are formally part of the Misplaced Pages Misplaced Pages:Manual of Style. For style guides that do not belong to the MoS, use the {{Subcat guideline}} instead. For wikiprojects' topical style advice pages, use {{Wikiproject style advice}}.

This template does not auto-categorize. Manually add the appropriately subcategory of Category:Misplaced Pages Manual of Style, with an alphabetical sorting key, e.g.: ]

If your wikiproject's style-advice page has not been accepted as a site-wide guideline in a WP:PROPOSAL at Misplaced Pages:Village pump (proposals), WP:Village pump (policy), or Misplaced Pages talk:Manual of Style, then do not use this template. Wikiproject advices pages are essays, not guidelines, and are not part of the Manual of Style.

Usage

This template should only be used on pages that have received a general consensus as belonging to the Manual of Style.

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 style guideline, see Category:Misplaced Pages proposals and How to contribute to Misplaced Pages guidance.

To use, place the template at the top of the page and fill in the optional parameters:

{{MoS guideline|section= |SHORTCUT1 |...|SHORTCUT5}}

Parameters

The template supports up to five numbered or unnamed parameters that specify shortcut links for the style guideline page (] markup does not need to be added, it can just be something like MOS:FOO).

The parameter |section=y can be used to change "This guideline" to read "This guideline section". This is only used when an MoS guideline is a section in a larger combined guideline, as at WP:Stand-alone lists which also contains a naming conventions guideline; it is not to be used for each section in an all-MOS page.

Examples

Code with one or more parameters for shortcut links:

{{MoS guideline|WP:MOS|WP:STYLE}}

New or greatly modified guidelines require community approval

Main page: Misplaced Pages:How to contribute to Misplaced Pages guidance

If you or a wikiproject have drafted a new guideline or substantially revised one, the Misplaced Pages community must have significant time to consider the proposal and arrive at a consensus about it. See the WP:PROPOSAL policy for the current best practices on neutrally soliciting input on a proposal from as wide a selection of the community as is practical.

For style guidelines, this is usually done with a request for comment (RfC) at the proposal's talk page, and advertised at Misplaced Pages talk:Manual of Style (WT:MOS) and Misplaced Pages:Village pump (proposals) (WP:VPPRO), or the RfC may be hosted directly at WT:MOS or WP:VPPRO. Give notice at the talk pages of other relevant parts of Misplaced Pages, such as those of closely related existing policies and guidelines, as well as wikiprojects likely to have a stake in the outcome. If the proposal is not highly topical and may affect the encyclopedia as a whole, or may be controversial, using WP:Centralized discussion may also be advised.

For more suggestions and background on how to go from a proposal to a Misplaced Pages guideline, see Category:Misplaced Pages proposals and Misplaced Pages:How to contribute to Misplaced Pages guidance.

See also

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