PBC:Template messages/PBC namespace

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

Policies and guidelines

For the rules concerning the use of these tags, see PBC:Policies and guidelines.

What to type	What it makes	Where it goes
{{policy}} links talk edit		Official policies top
{{Legal policy}} links talk edit		Official policies top
{{Procedural policy}} links talk edit		Official policies top
{{guideline}} links talk edit		Pages that document guidelines top
{{MoS-guideline}} links talk edit	Template:MoS-guideline	Pages that document style guidelines top
{{subcat guideline| <guideline category>| <category sort key>| <shortcuts>}} links talk edit 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 top Use only available (sub-) categories
{{disputedtag|talk=Discussion Title}}	Template:Disputedtag	Disputed "policy"/"guideline" designations top
{{disputedtag|section=yes|talk=Discussion Title}}	Template:Disputedtag	Disputed sections of policies/guidelines section
{{proposed}} links talk edit	Template:Proposed	Policy/guideline proposals top
{{draft proposal}} links talk edit	Template:Draft proposal	Drafts of policy/guideline proposals top
{{under discussion|status|talk=Discussion Title}}	Template:Under discussion	Policies and guidelines whose status as policy or guideline is being actively discussed, although their current status is not contested. top
{{under discussion|section|talk=Discussion Title}}	Template:Under discussion	Sections of policies, guidelines or other pages which are being actively discussed at the talk page section
{{under discussion-inline|talk=Discussion Title}}	Template:Under discussion-inline	Specific wordings or sentences in policies, guidelines or other pages which are being actively discussed at the talk page within text
{{failed}} links talk edit	Template:Failed	Failed policy/guideline proposals top
{{dormant}} links talk edit	Template:Dormant	Proposals that have become dormant through lack of discussion top
{{Polarized proposal}} links talk edit	Template:Polarized proposal	Currently unable to compromise policy/guideline proposals top

How-to and information

Further information: PBC:INFOPAGES

What to type	What it makes	Notes
{{Information page}} links talk edit		The banner template for administration pages that are more just informational and non-opinionated like PBC:GOV.
{{PBC how to}} links talk edit		The banner template for administration pages that are more directly instructional and non-opinionated like H:EDIT.
{{supplement|pages=[[PBC: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 PBC:BRD.
{{Process header}} links talk edit	Template:Process header	A blank template meant to be populated and used at the top of a page in the PBC and help namespace.

Essays

Further information: PBC:ESSAYPAGES

What to type	What it makes	Where it goes/Notes
{{essay|PBC:SHORT}}		Essays top the banner template for administration pages that are more opinionated then instructional or technical, there are several parameters and variations.
{{orphaned essay}} links talk edit	Template:Orphaned essay	Essays top
{{Notability essay}} links talk edit	Template:Notability essay	top
{{Civility essay}} links talk edit	Template:Civility essay	top
{{Behavioral essay}} links talk edit	Template:Behavioral essay	top
{{Categorization essay}} links talk edit	Template:Categorization essay	top
{{Deletion essay}} links talk edit		top

Historical and under development

Further information: PBC:HISPAGES and PBC:Template messages/Maintenance

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

Notices and warnings

Main page: PBC:Template messages/Cleanup

What to type	What it makes	Notes
{{Disputed tag}} links talk edit	Template:Disputed tag	template to dispute whether a page (or a section on a page) has properly been accorded policy or guideline status.
{{Under discussion}} links talk edit	Template:Under discussion	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}} links talk edit		A blank template used at the top of administration pages that can be populated manually.
{{nutshell}} links talk edit		To present a concise summary at the top of administration pages that can be populated manually.
{{Update}} links talk edit		Used to denote process, how-to and information pages that contain old or out-of-date information that needs updating.
{{Warning}} links talk edit		A blank template used at the top of administration pages that can be populated manually.
{{Caution}} links talk edit		A blank template used at the top of administration pages that can be populated manually.
{{Purpose}} links talk edit	Template:Purpose	To be used for when an essay, how-to or information page reason for existing is unclear.

Humorous

Further information: PBC:Department of Fun

What to type	What it makes	Notes
{{humor}} links talk edit	Template:Humor	For use on PBC and User namespaces pages that are not serious enough for publication in the mainspace.
{{humorantipolicy}} links talk edit	Template:Humorantipolicy	Humor pages that spoof and/or may have been proposed as policies.or guidelines.
{{Humorous essay}}		For humorous essays in both the PBC and User namespaces.
{{Joke alert}} links talk edit	Template:Joke alert	For use on PBC and User namespaces pages that are not serious enough for publication in the mainspace.

Other

Further information: Category:PBC header templates

What to type	What it makes	Where it goes
{{admin backlog}} links talk edit	Template:Admin backlog	Maintenance categories and pages with a backlog that require an administrator top
{{backlog}} links talk edit		Maintenance categories and pages with a backlog top
{{shortcut|PBC:SHORT}} links talk edit		Other project pages with shortcut(s) top
{{subst:sandboxpaste}} links talk edit	{{Please leave this line alone (sandbox heading)}} <!-- We like people to see the notice. Put any testing content below it. -->	PBC:Sandbox top
{{subst:specialpageslist}} links talk edit	Template:Specialpageslist	Lists top