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Is categorizing templates by style (bar-style, infobox, inline templates, list, navigational, title) really worthwhile?


Top-level categories to be orientated toward non-experienced/non-administrator users.
One top-level category – Wikipedia utility templates – to be door to administrative, maintenance, procedural etc templates for experienced/administrator users.
"Templates placed within articles that summarize information and/or provide links to related articles."
Applied science and technology templates
Arts and culture templates
Geography and place templates
Health and fitness templates
History and events templates
Mathematics and abstraction templates
Natural science and nature templates
People and person templates
Philosophy and thinking templates
Religion and belief templates
Social science and society templates

 Wikipedia formatting templates (Formatting templates)

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"Templates that assist the layout, formatting and presentation of Wikipedia pages."
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Wikipedia convenience templates (Convenience templates)"...for templates that were created so that large elements that would otherwise be placed in the article and make it difficult to edit (usually tables) may be removed from it."
Wikipedia sorting templates (Sorting templates)
"All template categories other than those in the top-level Wikipedia templates category, i.e. all categories containing templates for maintenance, administrative, etc use."
Wikipedia formatting templates (Formatting templates)
"Categories of templates awaiting or requiring action (usually by administrators), such as templates to be deleted, to be categorized, etc."
Wikipedia templates for deletion
Wikipedia deprecated and orphaned templates · Deprecated templates
Meant to be merged into former, but tagging templates (which?) still set to use latter?
Wikipedia substituted templates · Wikipedia transclusionless templates
Merge?
Wikipedia uncategorized templates · Uncategorized templates
Meant to be merged into former, but tagging templates ({{uncategorized}}?) still set to use latter?
Wikipedia template cleanup – "Categories of templates needing cleanup..."

 Wikipedia administration templates (Wikipedia administrative templates)

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Wikipedia protection templates (Protection templates)
"Templates used in maintaining Wikipedia pages, e.g. tagging them as requiring [refs, cleanup, etc?]."?
Wikipedia maintenance [navigation/navbox] templates? (Maintenance navigation)— vert and horiz templates giving links to policies, guidelines, fixing-Wikipedia projects, ...
Wikipedia category maintenance templates (Category maintenance templates)
Wikipedia citation and verifiability maintenance templates (Citation and verifiability maintenance templates)
Wikipedia copyright maintenance templates (Copyright maintenance templates)
Wikipedia image maintenance templates (Image maintenance templates)
Wikipedia internationalisation maintenance templates (Internationalisation maintenance templates)
Wikipedia language maintenance templates (Language maintenance templates)
Wikipedia link maintenance templates?
(merge subcategories?:)
Wikipedia internal link maintenance templates (Internal link maintenance templates)
Wikipedia external link maintenance templates (External link maintenance templates)
Wikipedia name and title maintenance templates (Name and title maintenance templates)
Wikipedia cleanup templates (Cleanup templates)— hatnotes/tags
Wikipedia coherency templates (Coherency templates)— e.g. Template:Ambiguous link; Buzzword; Confusing; Obsure; etc.
Wikipedia request templates (Request templates)— cleanup requests on talkpages
"Templates used within Wikipedia procedures, such as featured-article nomination, archiving talkpages, ..."
Wikipedia archiving templates (Archival templates)
Wikipedia articles for creation templates (Articles for creation templates)
Wikipedia deletion templates (Deletion templates)
Wikipedia featured topics templates · Wikipedia featured content templates
Merge?
Wikipedia dispute templates (Dispute templates)
Wikipedia page-manipulation templates?:
(merge subcategories?:)
Wikipedia page-merging templates (Merge templates)
Wikipedia page-splitting maintenance templates (Split maintenance templates) (to "Wikipedia maintenance templates"?)
Wikipedia renamed-user redirection templates (Renamed user redirects)
Usercat templates
Wikipedia username changing and usurpation templates (Username changing and usurpation templates)




 Wikipedia hatnote templates? · Wikipedia article tagging templates?

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Wikipedia disambiguation and redirection templates (Disambiguation and redirection templates)— Template:For; Redirect; Dablink; etc.
Wikipedia neutrality templates (Neutrality templates)
Wikipedia notability and importance templates (Notability and importance templates)
Wikipedia time-related templates (Temporal templates)
Wikipedia time and date maintenance templates (Time and date maintenance templates) (to "Wikipedia maintenance templates"?)
Wikipedia translation templates
Wikipedia transwiki templates (Transwiki templates)
Wikipedia under-construction templates (Under-construction templates)


Wikipedia WikiProject templates? (WikiProject templates)
Wikipedia Wikisource templates? (Wikisource templates)


Not maintenance or procedural or formatting?:

Wikipedia metatemplatestemplates used within other templates
Wikipedia to-do list templates (To-do list templates) – for To-do lists on article talkpages; not maintenance, or...

Not tagging templates?:

Wikipedia page-section templates (Wikipedia page-section templates)

Navigational templates (too general?)

Wikipedia template categories

Wikipedia notification templates