Category:Templates used in categories

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Current Wikipedia page name: Category:Templates used in categories
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Cms--	Commons
Mda--	Mediawiki
Wbk--	Wikibooks
Wpd--	Wikipedia
Mta--	Meta
Wdy--	Wiktionary
Wqt	Wikiquote
Wsr--	Wikisource
Wnw--	Wikinews
Wsp--	Wikispecies
Wvy--	Wikiversity
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This category is a "template category". It is used to categorise pages which are in the template namespace. The category is part of the Wikipedia project infrastructure and should not be used to categorise pages belonging to other namespaces, in particular project main namespace pages such as articles. The top level category for this namespace is Category:Wikipedia templates.

Description
This category is for templates used exclusively in tagging categories, without uses in main or template spaces. Hence {{commonscat}} should not be listed as it is also used in main space, but {{Commonscat1R}} and the rest of the autocategorizing templates for interwiki connection of categories should be pages here.

How to add a template to this category

To add a template to this category, use the following code at the end of the template:

<noinclude>
[[Category:Templates used in categories|{{PAGENAME}}]]
</noinclude>

If you add this code at the end of the template, please make sure that the opening <noinclude> starts on the same line as the last char of the template code. Experience confirmed by experiments revealed that some templates became seriously defunct when that rule was violated.

This is a tracking category

A tracking category is intended to build and maintain a list of pages primarily for the sake of the list itself. Rather than being part of the encyclopedia's categorization scheme, these categories are used to track, for example, the use of syntaxes that may be deprecated in the future, to maintain a list of pages that may need to be edited en masse later, or to aggregate the members of several sub-categories by other classifications into one larger list.

Some maintenance lists need to be checked periodically for backlogs, such as Categories for discussion notices and other XfD administrative tracking categories.

This category is for templates used exclusively in tagging categories, without uses in main or template spaces.