Template:MoS guideline/doc

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

Usage

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

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 PBC:PROPOSAL for the current best practice on advertising proposals.

For a short introduction on how to go from a proposal to a PBC style guideline, see Category:PBC proposals and How to contribute to PBC guidance.

To use, place one of the following usage strings at the top of the page and fill in the parameters:

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 PBC: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|PBC:MOS|PBC:STYLE}}

See also

• {{Style}} – the Manual of Style navigation sidebar
• {{Subcat guideline}} – to mark a specific type of guideline (content, behavioral, etc.); this is usually preferable to using this generic template
• {{Guideline}} – for the rare case of a guideline that does not fit within the categorizations available in the {{subcat guideline}} template
• For other PBC header templates (for policies, essays, wikiprojects, etc.), see Template messages/Project namespace.