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If you or a wikiproject have drafted a new guideline or substantially revised one, the Knowledge (XXG) community must have significant time to consider the proposal and arrive at a
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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
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If you're writing a new guideline, or substantially revising one, please remember to give the community significant time to consider your proposal. See
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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
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policy for the current best practices on neutrally soliciting input on a proposal from as wide a selection of the community as is practical.
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This template should only be used on pages that have received a general consensus as belonging to the Manual of Style.
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which also contains a naming conventions guideline; it is not to be used for each section in an all-MOS page.
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For more suggestions and background on how to go from a proposal to a Knowledge (XXG) guideline, see
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To use, place one of the following usage strings at the top of the page and fill in the parameters:
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If your wikiproject's style-advice page has not been accepted as a site-wide guideline in a
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It is a generally accepted standard that editors should attempt to follow, though
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The template supports up to five numbered or unnamed parameters that specify
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Please do not apply this template to any page without first advertising your
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pages (or sections thereof) that are formally part of the Knowledge (XXG)
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markup does not need to be added, it can just be something like
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auto-categorize. Manually add the appropriately subcategory of
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New or greatly modified guidelines require community approval
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instead. For wikiprojects' topical style advice pages, use
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This template should only be used on pages belonging to the
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for the current best practice on advertising proposals.
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Knowledge (XXG):Manual of Style
Subcat guideline
Wikiproject style advice
Category:Knowledge (XXG) Manual of Style
alphabetical sorting key
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Knowledge (XXG):Village pump (proposals)
WP:Village pump (policy)
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