Wikipedia:Template documentation

Wikimedia page about template documentation

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Templates are a very powerful feature of MediaWiki, but can be confusing to new users, and even experienced users can have difficulty making sense of the more complex ones. Templates should therefore be accompanied by documentation to improve usability.

Template documentation should explain what a template does and how to use it. It should be simple enough that a user without complete knowledge of the intricacies of template syntax can use it correctly, including many experienced contributors who focus their attention elsewhere. This is especially true in the case of very widely used templates.