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{{Template notes |style=margin-bottom:1.0em;
| This template should only be used on pages belonging to the [[WP:MOS|Manual of Style]].
| For style guides that {{em|are not}} part of the MoS, use {{tl|Subcat guideline}} instead.
| For advice that is {{em|not}} a Wikipedia guideline, use the {{tl|Essay}} or one of its variants, instead.
| Please do not apply this template to any page without first advertising your [[WP:PROPOSAL|proposal]] to other editors via a [[WP:RFC|request for comments]], as described below.
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{{tlx|MoS guideline}} is used on [[WP:Policies and guidelines|guideline]] pages (or sections thereof) that are formally part of the Wikipedia [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style]]. For style guides that {{em|do not}} belong to the MoS, use the {{tlx|Subcat guideline}} instead. For wikiprojects' topical style advice pages, use {{tlx|Wikiproject style advice}}.

This template does {{em|not}} auto-categorize. Manually add the appropriately subcategory of [[:Category:Wikipedia Manual of Style]], with an [[WP:Sort key|alphabetical sorting key]], e.g.: <code><nowiki>[[Category:Wikipedia Manual of Style (sports)|Underwater wrestling]]</nowiki></code>

{{strong|1=If your wikiproject's style-advice page has not been accepted as a site-wide guideline in a [[WP:PROPOSAL]] at [[Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)]], [[WP:Village pump (policy)]], or [[Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style]], then do not use this template.}} Wikiproject advices pages [[WP:PROJPAGE|are essays]], not [[WP:Policies and guidelines|guidelines]], and are not part of the Manual of Style.

== Usage ==

{{tlx|MoS guideline |{{gray|section{{=}} }}|{{var|SHORTCUT1}} |...|{{var|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 [[WP:PROPOSAL]] for the current best practice on advertising proposals.

For a short introduction on how to go from a ''proposal'' to a Wikipedia ''style guideline'', see [[:Category:Wikipedia proposals]] and [[WP:How to contribute to Wikipedia guidance|How to contribute to Wikipedia 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 [[WP:SHORT|shortcut links]] for the style guideline page (<code><nowiki>[[...]]</nowiki></code> markup does not need to be added, it can just be something like '''<kbd>MOS:{{var|FOO}}</kbd>''').

The parameter {{para|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 [[WP: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:

{{tlx|MoS guideline|WP:MOS|WP:STYLE}}

==New or greatly modified guidelines require community approval==
{{main|Wikipedia:How to contribute to Wikipedia guidance}}
If you or a wikiproject have drafted a new guideline or substantially revised one, the Wikipedia community must have significant time to consider the proposal and arrive at a [[WP:Consensus|consensus]] about it. See the [[WP:PROPOSAL]] policy for the current best practices on neutrally soliciting input on a proposal from as wide a selection of the community as is practical.

'''For style guidelines, this is usually done with a [[WP:RFC|request for comment (RfC)]] at the proposal's talk page, and advertised at [[Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style]] ([[WT:MOS]]) and [[Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)]] ([[WP:VPPRO]])''', or the RfC may be hosted directly at WT:MOS or WP:VPPRO. Give notice at the talk pages of other relevant parts of Wikipedia, such as those of closely related existing policies and guidelines, as well as [[WP:WikiProject|wikiprojects]] likely to have a stake in the outcome. If the proposal is not highly topical and may affect the encyclopedia as a whole, or may be controversial, using [[WP:Centralized discussion]] may also be advised.

For more suggestions and background on how to go from a proposal to a Wikipedia guideline, see [[:Category:Wikipedia proposals]] and [[Wikipedia:How to contribute to Wikipedia guidance]].

== See also ==
* {{tl|Style}} – the Manual of Style navigation sidebar
* {{tl|Subcat guideline}} – to mark a specific type of guideline (content, behavioral, etc.); this is usually preferable to using this generic template
* {{tl|Guideline}} – for the rare case of a guideline that does not fit within the categorizations available in the {{tl|subcat guideline}} template
* {{tl|Supplement}} – for a special kind of Wikipedia essay that is a consensus-accepted supplement to a guideline
* {{tl|Proposed}} – to solicit comments from the wider community before declaring a page to be a guideline; please also notify [[Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)]]
* {{tlg|Rfc|alttext=Rfc | style}} – to solicit comments from the community about a proposed style guideline, major changes to an existing style guideline, or removing guideline status; please also notify [[Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)]]
* For other [[:Category:Wikipedia header templates|Wikipedia header templates]] (for policies, essays, wikiprojects, etc.), see [[Wikipedia:Template messages/Project namespace|Template messages/Project namespace]].

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