Help:Embeddable templates

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There are 2 kind of templates in this wiki and one should not be mistaken for another:

• An article template (or Page template) is essentially an article's stub or a boilerplate. To create a new article a user simply copies it's wiki text and pastes it into a new empty article page.
• A MediaWiki template on the other hand generally used to bring a smaller sniplet of mediawiki markup into an article page. They could be seen as a sort of shortcuts introduced into a wiki to implement some common pattern to avoid excessive typing and errors and to implement some common style.

In this sense a MediaWiki template can be seen as a stencil for some article's feature while an article template is more like a foundation for a whole article.

Similar to an article template a source text for MediaWiki template is stored in a wiki page prefixed with "Template:". The difference with a normal wiki page or an article template in that this kind of a template is that it is designed to be embedded (or https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Transclusion transcluded]) into another page.