Template:Proposed/doc

Adds pages to Category:Wikipedia proposals.

To include a shortcut, pass a parameter:. For related Wikipedia header templates see Template messages/Project namespace.

Purpose
The Wikipedian Community, in its actions, roughly follows a set of official policies and guidelines. Pages reflecting these policies are written by ordinary editors in Wikipedia: namespace. Other editors review these proposals and edit to improve them. Over time, many things may happen to a proposal; it may be moved to a new page name, edited substantially, adopted as official policy or mere guideline; nor is this list complete.

When a new proposal is first written it is common to tag the page as. Although a proposal is generally written in a positive voice, it is not policy until adopted by the Community through the consensus-building process.

Usage
The only parameter is optional. If supplied, it displays as a link to the appropriate shortcut page for the proposal. (Note that this is not automatic; MediaWiki cannot determine the shortcut from the page itself. You need to discover or create the shortcut yourself.)