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Templates are pages in the template [[Help:Namespace|namespace]]. This means any page beginning with "Template:", such as <nowiki>[[Template:Templatename]]</nowiki> can be used as a template. The content of a template can be added to a page by typing <nowiki>{{templatename}}</nowiki>.

Templates are used to add recurring messages to pages in a consistent way, to add [[Wikipedia:Glossary#Boilerplate (text)|boilerplate]] messages, to create navigational boxes and to provide cross-language portability of texts.

==Creating, editing and using templates==