Template:Proposal/doc

This is a documentation subpage for Template:Proposal.
It may contain usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page.

Usage

{{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.

Purpose

See WP:PROPOSAL for advice on advertising your proposed advice page to the community

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.

Usage

{{Proposal
 | 1          = 
 | 2          = 
 | 3          = 
 | 4          = 
 | 5          = 
 | 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.

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