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This template is used to nominate other templates for merging.

Usage
To nominate a single template, copy and paste the following code at the top of the template:


 * Note: OtherTemplate should be replaced by the name of the other template to be merged, the prefix   (or  ).

To nominate multiple templates for merging under the same header, type the following at the top of each individual template:

where NameOfHeading is the name of the section heading under which you will list the templates for merging at TfD. You can also spell this header.

Display on articles
Unless you do something unusual such as enclosing in noinclude tags, articles that use the nominated template will provide a notification and link to the discussion. By default the article will show the following just above the display of the nominated template:

There are various other options, specified by the type parameter.

Inline
To nominate inline templates, set inline. This will help with formatting issues that occur when the large notification is displayed. Type the following: The notification on articles looks like this:

Tiny
To use even smaller notifications, for inline template nominations, set tiny. Type the following which will produce the following notification:

Sidebar
To nominate templates that are used as sidebars, such as infoboxes, specify sidebar, i.e. which produces:

You can alternatively use infobox or box to produce the same result.

Disabled
Finally it is possible to disable the notification completely by typing disabled. You can use this when everything else fails. which outputs nothing at all on all transclusions of the template.