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Pages intended to be reused as portions of other pages are called templates. The names of template pages start with the prefix Template:. A template can be included on another page using the syntax {{Page name}}, but leave out the prefix between the curly brackets!. On Wikipedia, templates are created to serve a variety of purposes, such as navigation boxes (e.g. Template:Europe), infoboxes, and notices (e.g. Template:Controversial). If you wish to make a personal boilerplate (such as a personalized welcome message, or the like), you can make one in your userspace. Simply create the page as a subpage of your userspace (in the format User:Foo/something). To put it onto a page, use the curly brackets as usual, but remember to use the prefix: {{User:Foo/something}} rather than {{something}}. This is because the curly-bracket syntax automatically looks in the Template namespace, so if you want to use one from your userspace, you need to tell it to look there. Read more: Wikipedia:Template |
