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. |
{{Proposal|WP:SHORTCUT}}
or
{{Draft proposal|WP: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.)
Adds pages to Category:Wikipedia proposals or Category:Wikipedia draft proposals if {{Draft proposal}}
is used. Categorization of drafts can be suppressed with the |categories=no
parameter.
For related Wikipedia header templates see Template messages/Wikipedia namespace.
The Wikipedian community roughly follows a set of official policies and guidelines (collectively often referred to simply as "policy"). Pages reflecting policy are written by ordinary editors in the "Wikipedia:" namespace. Other editors review these proposals and edit to improve them and move toward greater consensus. 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, be rejected by the community, be recast as simply a Wikipedian essay, or fail to sufficiently develop into a viable proposal.
When a proposal is being advanced it is usual to tag the page with {{Proposed}}
. Although a proposal is generally written in advisory tone, it is not policy until adopted by the community through the consensus-building process, and should not yet be tagged with {{Policy}}
or {{Guideline}}
(doing so pre-emptively may be viewed as disruptive).
If a proposal is still in the early formative stages and it is desired to gather creative suggestions from others on what purpose and direction such a proposal should have, one may wish to temporarily use the {{Brainstorming}}
header template, and later use {{Draft proposal}}
when these matters are clearer. 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 acceptance by the community, {{Draft proposal}}
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. If there is a lack of discussion from the community, the proposal may be tagged with {{Dormant}}
. Usual places to advertise a proposal are the talk pages of relevant other policies and guidelines and of topically connected wikiprojects, and the pages WP:Village pump (policy) and WP:Village pump (proposals) (or just the latter if the proposal is not about policy material but something else, e.g. a process or procedures). Be careful to not canvass with non-neutral wording or too-targeted notification when doing this advertising. A centralized discussion point (usually at the talk page of the proposal) is desirable, and making it an RfC will increase participation.
{{Proposal
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| type =
| discussion =
| section =
| categories =
| category =
| nocat =
}}
The parameters are as follows:
1
: First parameter, specifies a shortcut.2
: Same as 1 (for multiple shortcuts)3
: Same as 1 (for multiple shortcuts)4
: Same as 1 (for multiple shortcuts)5
: Same as 1 (for multiple shortcuts)type
: The dealio of what kind of thing it's being proposed for. The default is "policy, guideline, or process".discussion
: Link to specific discussion. Default is to link to the page's talk page (e.g. if your proposal is at Wikipedia:Meowing guidelines, it will link to Wikipedia talk:Meowing guidelines), but it can be set up to link elsewhere, like Module talk:Meowing#Proposal with |discussion=Module talk:Meowing#Proposal
– don't include any [[...|...]]
markup.section
: Section link when using the default discussion page location (e.g. if your proposal is at Wikipedia:Meowing guidelines, add |section=Proposal
to link to Wikipedia talk:Meowing guidelines#Proposal)category
: Replace Category:Wikipedia draft proposals with something else, like Category:Wikipedia draft proposals about meowing.categories
: I don't know what this does.nocat
: If you include anything here, it excludes the page from being default categorized in Category:Wikipedia draft proposals.