The Wikipedia:Project namespace includes Wikipedia official policies and guidelines, process pages, discussion pages, optional essays, informative pages, humorous and historical pages.

Policies and guidelines

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{{policy}}
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Official policies

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{{Legal policy}}
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Official policies

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{{Procedural policy}}
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Official policies

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{{guideline}}
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Pages that document guidelines

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{{MoS-guideline}}
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Pages that document style guidelines

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

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Guideline category should be one of:

  • behavioral guideline
  • content guideline
  • deletion guideline
  • editing guideline
  • naming convention
  • notability guideline
  • style guideline
Example for naming convention as <guideline category>:
For tagging guidelines of specific categories

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Use only available (sub-) categories
{{disputedtag|talk=Discussion Title}} Disputed "policy"/"guideline" designations

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{{disputedtag|section=yes|talk=Discussion Title}} Disputed sections of policies/guidelines

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{{proposed}}
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Policy/guideline proposals

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{{draft proposal}}
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Drafts of policy/guideline proposals

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{{under discussion|status|talk=Discussion Title}} Policies and guidelines whose status as policy or guideline is being actively discussed, although their current status is not contested.

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{{under discussion|section|talk=Discussion Title}} Sections of policies, guidelines or other pages which are being actively discussed at the talk page

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{{under discussion-inline|talk=Discussion Title}} [under discussion] Specific wordings or sentences in policies, guidelines or other pages which are being actively discussed at the talk page

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{{failed}}
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Failed policy/guideline proposals

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{{dormant}}
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Proposals that have become dormant through lack of discussion

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{{Polarized proposal}}
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Currently unable to compromise policy/guideline proposals

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How-to and information

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{{Information page}}
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The banner template for administration pages that are more just informational and non-opinionated like WP:GOV.
{{Wikipedia how to}}
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The banner template for administration pages that are more directly instructional and non-opinionated like H:EDIT.
{{supplement|pages=[[Wikipedia:Policy]] page}} Use this template carefully, only when there is a well-established consensus at the relevant policy or guideline page to link to the administration page in question from the policy or guideline like WP:BRD.
{{Process header}}
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Wikipedia namespace
A blank template meant to be populated and used at the top of a page in the Wikipedia and help namespace.

Essays

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{{essay|WP:SHORT}} Essays

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the banner template for administration pages that are more opinionated then instructional or technical, there are several parameters and variations.
{{orphaned essay}}
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Essays

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{{Notability essay}}
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{{Civility essay}}
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{{Behavioral essay}}
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{{Categorization essay}}
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{{Deletion essay}}
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WikiProjects

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{{WikiProject status}}
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Parameters: |active, |semi-active, |inactive, |defunct
Displays the activity status of a WikiProject by using optional parameters


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{{WikiProject advice}}
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Used on essays and other advice pages that are written by one or more WikiProjects

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{{WikiProject notability essay}}
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Unofficial notability criteria defined by individual WikiProjects

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{{WikiProject style advice}}
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Unofficial style advice defined by individual WikiProjects

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{{WikiProject content advice}}
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Unofficial content advice defined by individual WikiProjects

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Historical and under development

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{{historical}}
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For a former policy, use {{Historical|type=policy}}. For a former guideline, use {{Historical|type=guideline}}
{{superseded|[[New page]]}} For process and infomation pages that have been superseded by other pages.
{{WikiProject status|Defunct}} Set inactive=yes parameter from {{WikiProject status}}.
{{Essay in development}}
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This template is for essay pages actively undergoing a major edit.
{{Under construction}}
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This template is for administration pages actively undergoing a major edit.
{{In use}}
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Placed at the top of an administration page you are actively editing for a short period of time
{{WP Future}}
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Pages using this template will be placed into Category:Inactive project pages unless the parameter category=no is given
{{Freq}}
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This template is meant to be used at the top of a page in the Wikipedia and help namespace.
{{Brainstorming}}
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This template is meant to be used at the top of a page in the Wikipedia and help namespace currently being developed.

Notices and warnings

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{{Disputed tag}}
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template to dispute whether a page (or a section on a page) has properly been accorded policy or guideline status.
{{Under discussion}}
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If the discussion concerns a proposed change to the status of a policy or guideline page then you may use the status parameter (see Policies and guidelines above).
{{Notice}}
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A blank template used at the top of administration pages that can be populated manually.
{{nutshell}}
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To present a concise summary at the top of administration pages that can be populated manually.
{{Update}}
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Used to denote process, how-to and information pages that contain old or out-of-date information that needs updating.
{{Warning}}
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A blank template used at the top of administration pages that can be populated manually.
{{Caution}}
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A blank template used at the top of administration pages that can be populated manually.
{{Purpose}}
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To be used for when an essay, how-to or information page reason for existing is unclear.

Humorous

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{{humor}}
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For use on Wikipedia and User namespaces pages that are not serious enough for publication in the mainspace.
{{humorantipolicy}}
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Humor pages that spoof and/or may have been proposed as policies or guidelines.
{{Humorous essay}} For humorous essays in both the Wikipedia and User namespaces.

Other

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{{admin backlog}}
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Maintenance categories and pages with a backlog that require an administrator

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{{backlog}}
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Maintenance categories and pages with a backlog

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{{shortcut|WP:SHORT}}
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Other project pages with shortcut(s)
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{{subst:sandboxpaste}}
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{{Please leave this line alone (sandbox heading)}} <!-- We like people to see the notice. Put any testing content below it. --> Wikipedia:Sandbox

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