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The following is a proposed Wikipedia policy, guideline, or process. The proposal may still be in development, under discussion, or in the process of gathering consensus for adoption. Thus references or links to this page should not describe it as "policy". |
Adds pages to Category:Wikipedia proposals.
To include a shortcut, pass a parameter: {{Proposed|WP:SHORT}}. For related Wikipedia header templates see Template messages/Project namespace.
Purpose
The Wikipedian Community, in its actions, roughly follows a set of official policies and guidelines. Pages reflecting these policies are written by ordinary editors in Wikipedia: namespace. Other editors review these proposals and edit to improve them. Over time, many things may happen to a proposal — it may be changed substantially, be moved to a new location, become adopted as a policy or guideline, or be rejected by the community.
When a new proposal is first written it is common to tag the page with {{proposed}}. Although a proposal is generally written in a positive voice, it is not policy until adopted by the community through the consensus-building process.
If a proposal is still in the formative stages and it is desired to gather creative suggestions from others, one may wish to temporarily use Template:Brainstorming. Once proponents of a proposal are satisfied with the form it has taken and it is desired to move forward to the more intense debate that precedes policy enactment, the {{Brainstorming}} tag should be replaced with {{Proposed}}. This change in status should be advertised so that interested parties have a fair chance to participate before anyone designates the proposal as rejected or adopted as policy.
Usage
{{Proposed|shortcut}}
The only parameter is optional. If supplied, it displays as a link to the appropriate shortcut page for the proposal. (Note that this is not automatic; MediaWiki cannot determine the shortcut from the page itself. You need to discover or create the shortcut yourself.)
See also
