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A simple example of this is the [[wp:U2|Wikipedia article on the rock band 'U2']]. This article and all Wikipedia articles about musical groups use a "Infobox musical artist" template so authors can record the basics about the musical artist: Band name, discography, genre, albums etc., AND that information can be systematically formatted for display in the article.

==== Functional Templates ====

Templates can also be used to include functionality in a page. An example of this is to mark a page, or link to another application systematically based on either a variable, or a "magic word" like PAGENAME More on MediaWiki variables is at [[meta:Help:Variable]

Templates can also be used to include functionality in a page. An example of this is to mark a page, or link to another application systematically based on either a variable, or a "magic word" like PAGENAME More on MediaWiki variables is at [[meta:Help:Variable]]

==== Static Templates ====

Templates can also be used to include static content on a page (kind of like a keyword macro). This is useful when you want to mark a bunch of pages with some common message content, e.g. 'obsolete', '[[:Template:stub|stub]]', 'needs attention' etc.; or perhaps you have a collection of articles that you want to apply a common resource box or navigation to.

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 A simple example of this is the [[wp:U2|Wikipedia article on the rock band 'U2']].  This article and all Wikipedia articles about musical groups use a "Infobox musical artist" template so authors can record the basics about the musical artist: Band name, discography, genre, albums etc., AND that information can be systematically formatted for display in the article.
 ==== Functional Templates ====
-Templates can also be used to include functionality in a page.  An example of this is to mark a page, or link to another application systematically based on either a variable, or a "magic word" like PAGENAME  More on MediaWiki variables is at [[meta:Help:Variable]
+Templates can also be used to include functionality in a page.  An example of this is to mark a page, or link to another application systematically based on either a variable, or a "magic word" like PAGENAME  More on MediaWiki variables is at [[meta:Help:Variable]]
 ==== Static Templates ====
 Templates can also be used to include static content on a page (kind of like a keyword macro).  This is useful when you want to mark a bunch of pages with some common message content, e.g. 'obsolete', '[[:Template:stub|stub]]', 'needs attention' etc.; or perhaps you have a collection of articles that you want to apply a common resource box or navigation to.