Template:Check talk/doc

This is the check talk meta-template.

This template is invisible except under the conditions described below.

Usage
This template may be incorporated into other templates that are intended to be used only on talk pages. If a template containing it is added to a page in any subject namespace, then a warning message will be displayed encouraging people to use that template only on talk pages. The current text of the warning message is:

'This template is misplaced. It belongs on the talk page: .'

It also adds the pages to Category:Pages with templates in the wrong namespace for easier tracking and rectification.

This template can simply be used like this:



But if you want to have the ability to selectively turn off this template, for instance when you show your template on a WikiProject page, then use this template like this:



Then you can feed " " to your template when you demonstrate it on a page, and then this template will not show any error message and will not categorize it.