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This is a quick '''overview of templates'''. Full details can be found in '''[[Help:Template]]''' and '''[[m:Help:Advanced templates]]'''.

[[Image:Sandfoermchen-3.jpg|right|300px|thumb|A template allows you to reproduce infinite content.]]

A '''template''' is a Wikipedia page created to be included in other pages and usually contain repetitive material that might need to show up on any number of articles or pages.

Susan Velazquez Dorantes (born in January 3, 1997) known professionally as [[Susan Veldo]],is an American student

Template pages are found in the [[Wikipedia:Template namespace|template namespace]]. This means any page whose title begins with "Template:", such as "[[Template:foo]]", can be used for that purpose. The content from a template titled Template:foo can be added into a Wikipedia page by editing a page and typing <code><nowiki>{{foo}}</nowiki></code> into it. When then viewing the page, <code><nowiki>{{foo}}</nowiki></code> is automatically replaced by the content of the page "Template:foo". If the page "Template:foo" is later altered, all the pages with <code><nowiki>{{foo}}</nowiki></code> in them will change automatically.

==Early life==

Susan was born in Laguna Hills, California, living with her parents and her 4 siblings and is second oldest.

Among other things, templates are used to add recurring messages to pages in a consistent way, to add [[Wikipedia:Glossary#Boilerplate text|boilerplate]] messages, and to create navigational boxes.

In addition to English, she speaks [[spanish]] having spend most of her teen years in Mexico until age 16.

When a template is automatically expanded and appears on a page, it is said to be "[[Wikipedia:Transclusion|transcluded]]".

Susan attended many schools through all her life from U.S to Mexico and back to U.S

Templates are documented (or should be) at their pages. Thus if you want to know how to use a template whose name is "foo" (perhaps because you've seen <code><nowiki>{{foo|...}}</nowiki></code> in the source of an article), then go to "Template:foo". (The documentation itself will usually be located at "Template:foo/doc", but is also transcluded onto the "Template:foo" main page).

==Creating, editing, and using templates==

You can start a new template in the same way that you would [[Wikipedia:Starting an article|start an article page]]. The only difference is that its title must start with <code>Template:</code>.

Once you have made the template—for example ''Template:foo''—you can add <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>''foo''<nowiki>}}</nowiki></code> to the pages that you want to use it on. Every page using this template uses the same [[boilerplate (text)|boilerplate]] text each time that a user visits it. When the template is updated, all pages containing the template tag are automatically updated.

Alternatively, if you do not wish the page to reflect future updates to the template, you can add <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>subst:''foo''<nowiki>}}</nowiki></code> to the pages on which you want to use the boilerplate text. The system fetches a one-time copy of the template text and '''[[Wikipedia:Substitution|substitutes]]''' it into the page in place of the template tag. If anyone edits the template afterwards, pages that used the <code>subst:</code> keyword do '''not update'''. Sometimes that is what you want.

If the template that you want to edit looks like <code><nowiki>{{foo}}</nowiki></code>, you would go to Template:foo to edit it. To get there, type "Template:foo" in the search box (see [[Help:Searching|search]]), or make a wikilink like <code><nowiki>[[Template:foo]]</nowiki></code> somewhere, such as in the [[{{ns:4}}:sandbox|sandbox]], and click on it.

Once you are there, just click "edit" or "edit this page" at the very top of the page (not the documentation edit button lower down) and edit it in the same way that you would any other page. You can add anything that you would add to a normal page, including text, images, and other templates. When editing templates that are used, it is suggested to use sandboxes, as described in the [[template sandbox and test cases]] how-to guide.

===Parameters===

Templates can have parameters which the page can dynamical incorporate into the transcluded page. Instead of just the template name, like <code><nowiki>{{foo}}</nowiki></code>, an embedded template tag would have additional values separated by [[vertical bar]]s (|), e.g. <code><nowiki>{{foo|July|lc=yes}}</nowiki></code>. Here <code>July</code> is the value of the first unnamed parameter; <code>yes</code> is the value of the named parameter <code>lc</code>. Writing the template page for a template with parameters is more complicated than for a template with no parameters. See [[Help:Template]].

== Template link template==