قالب:Supplement/doc

History

This "explanatory essay" template was originally intended as a separate "supplement" template used for essays like Wikipedia:The difference between policies, guidelines and essays. In discussions about how to improve and explain policies and guidelines, many editors thought that it would be easier to handle significant, yet overly detailed or instructional material on separate pages, instead of trying to shoehorn them directly into the official policy or guideline pages causing instructional creep. شوف كمان Criticism of Wikipedia § Excessive rule-making and Wikipedia:Content forking/Internal § Policy forks.

Current usage

  

المقال page: WP:SUPPLEMENTAL

Use this template carefully, only when there is a well-established consensus at the relevant policy or guideline page to use this template on an essay that links from the relevant policy or guideline.

The noun supplement does not mean "an interpretation" nor just "something added". It means precisely "something added, especially to make up for a deficiency", in this case a lack or gap in an official Wikipedia's policy or guideline. The intent is to further elaborate on Wikipedia's policies or guidelines in an impartial and informative manner.

Note: this template does not indicate a "higher status" within the community for an essay, but is used to denote that the essay in question has wide acceptance to be linked from said policy or guideline page. If consensus changes or content is outdated and the essay is no longer referenced in a policy or guideline, change the tag to the more common {{Essay|interprets=}} or {{Information page}} template, as appropriate.

Parameters

This template has an |interprets= a.k.a. |pages= parameter that must be used. Replaces "such guidance" with "the foo" where "foo" is a link to one or more policies or guidelines and label(s) for what they are, e.g.:

• |interprets=Wikipedia:No original research policy
• |interprets=Wikipedia:Manual of Style guideline
• |interprets=Wikipedia:No original research and Wikipedia:Neutral point of view policies
• |interprets=ويكيبيديا:امكانية التحقق policy and Wikipedia:مصادر موثوق فيها guideline

You can also use {{section link}} to produce better-looking links to page sections, e.g.: |interprets=Wikipedia:Article titles § Deciding on an article title policy, which renders as "the Wikipedia:Article titles § Deciding on an article title policy".

The template also has optional |shortcut=, |shortcut2=, |shortcut3=, and |shortcut4= parameters that can be used to add a Shortcut: box to the right-side, with up to four shortcuts.

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وسيط		وصف	نوع	حالة
1	1 shortcut1	first shortcut مثال WP:PGE	نص	مقترح
2	2	دون وصف	غير معروف	اختياري
3	3	دون وصف	غير معروف	اختياري
4	4	دون وصف	غير معروف	اختياري
pages	pages	دون وصف	غير معروف	اختياري
Interprets	interprets pages	Parameter that must be used'''. Replaces "such guidance" with "the {{var|foo}}" where "{{var|foo}}" is a link to one or more policies or guidelines {{em|and}} label(s) for what they are مثال [[ويكيبيديا:امكانية التحقق]] policy	نص	مطلوب
Shortcut	shortcut	Parameters that can be used to add a ''Shortcut:'' box to the right-side مثال WP:DRAFT	غير معروف	اختياري
shortcut1	shortcut1	دون وصف	غير معروف	اختياري
Shortcut2	shortcut2	دون وصف	غير معروف	اختياري
Shortcut3	shortcut3	دون وصف	غير معروف	اختياري
Shortcut4	shortcut4	دون وصف	غير معروف	اختياري
category	category	دون وصف	غير معروف	اختياري

Examples

• {{supplement|interprets=[[Wikipedia:Neutral point of view]] policy}}

becomes:

• {{supplement|interprets=[[Wikipedia:Neutral point of view]] policy|shortcut=WP:SHORTCUT|shortcut2=WP:SHORTCUT2}}

becomes:

• {{supplement|interprets=[[Wikipedia:Neutral point of view]] and [[Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons]] policies}}

becomes:

Categorization

This template adds a page to Category:Wikipedia supplemental pages, by default. If the page is in userspace (e.g. is a draft of a supplement, or is a mistaken use of the template for something intended to remain a user essay), it will instead be put into Category:User essays.

If there is a need to put the page in an eventual more-specific subcategory, this can be accomplished with |category=, using a fully wikilinked category as input. E.g.:
     {{Supplement |interprets=Wikipedia:Manual of Style guideline |category=}}

This feature should not be used to add an additional category (as this would remove inclusion in Category:Wikipedia supplemental pages or any subcategory thereof). To add additional categories, simply put them at page-bottom, as usual.

شوف كمان

• {{Information page}} – the banner template for pages that are more just informational and non-opinionated like WP:GOV
• {{Wikipedia how-to}} – the banner template for pages that are more directly instructional and non-opinionated like H:EDIT.
• {{Essay|interprets=}} – the banner template for pages that are more opinionated then instructional or technical; there are several parameters and variations.
• Wikipedia:Template messages/Wikipedia namespace – for more "Wikipedia:"-namespace header templates.