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It has been brought to my attention (http://www.niwanetwork.org/wiki/index.php/User_talk:Tacopill#The_doc_thing) that the documentation pages of N Wiki do not follow a standard format, nor a standard on if it is on the same page or not. So, upon the recommendation of Moydow, we are asking the community for input and a vote in the topic.

the vote is mainly to decide if all documentation of a template should be on the same page or different page from the template itself; but this thread can expand beyond it.

Reasons for Separate Pages

• Keeps the documentation separated from the template itself
• When one is updated, the other isn't affected. For example,  if one were to update the documentation of  Game Infobox (http://www.niwanetwork.org/wiki/index.php/Template:Game_infobox) in a separate page, then would not signal the 349 Transcluse pages (http://www.niwanetwork.org/wiki/index.php/Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Game_infobox) to be cache purged.

Reasons Against

• No Excessive Amount of /doc pages on Special:WantedTempaltes (http://www.niwanetwork.org/wiki/index.php?title=Special:WantedTemplates&limit=500&offset=0)
• No Additional Template Pages, for ones that only get transcluded once.

Thank you all for your time,
tacopill.

sorry for the double post, but the poll has closed with a result of 5-4.

I'll leave the thread open for further comments, but from this point on, consensus is to keep them separate.

Hmm I guess separate is best if thats what people want