Template:Always substitute
 | This template should always be substituted – use {{subst:Always substitute}}. |
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| This template should not be substituted. |
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{{Always substitute}} produces the following notice:
This template should always be substituted – use {{subst:foo}}.
(but {{Always substitute}} itself should not be substituted.)
Usage
[kolera mu edit source]{{Always substitute}}
{{Always substitute}} should be placed on the documentation subpage of any template that requires substitution rather than transclusion (i.e. not on the template's own page itself).
Parameters
[kolera mu edit source]|auto=- If set as "yes", the template to which the notice refers will be subst:ed automatically unless the
|demo=yesparameter is set. The notice is amended to state this. Default is "no". Setting this parameter to "yes" places the template in Category:Wikipedia templates to be automatically substituted; see User:AnomieBOT/docs/TemplateSubster for more information. |alt=- Use to set an alternate and transcludable name for the template.
|nocat=true- Suppress automatic categorization.
Categorization
[kolera mu edit source]Pages that include {{Always substitute}} are added to Category:Wikipedia substituted templates.
Templates that subst a template name string onto the target page in hidden text are added to Category:Templates with matching hidden id if and only if the hidden template name string matches the name of the template. For example: Template:Uw-coi contains the token <!-- Template:Uw-coi -->, and since the token matches the Template name, Template:Uw-coi is a member of the category.
List of subst helper templates
[kolera mu edit source]- {{require substitution}} – Prints an error unless substituted.
- {{ifsubst}} – if-then-else metatemplate that checks if a template is currently being substituted or transcluded
- {{always substitute}} – For the doc of the above templates; prints a message asking for it be substituted.
- {{frequently substituted}} – like "may..." below
- {{never substitute}} – The reverse of {{always substitute}}. For the doc of templates which should not be substituted; prints a message asking for it not to be substituted.
- {{may be substituted}} – For the doc of templates whose substitution is optional.
- {{substitution}} – Allows free-fill description of whether the template should be substituted and under what conditions.
- {{issubst}} – Returns "yes" if substituted.
- {{HTML comment}} – To sign substitutions with comments that contain wikitext expansions
- Module:Unsubst – Prevents substitution.
- Module:Unsubst-infobox – Prevents substitution for infoboxes, cleans up parameters.