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===Categorization===
{{See also|WP:Categorization#Template categorization}}
====Categorize pages by template inclusion====
Some templates generate category declarations in their expansion, since the template is intended to place calling pages in particular categories. This is often done with maintenance categories.  Placing articles into ordinary content categories in this way is discouraged. When doing this, you may have to use {{tag|includeonly}} tags to keep the template itself out of the category. While developing, testing, sandboxing, or demonstrating a template intended to apply a category, either temporarily replace each category with a test category (starting with [[:Category:X1|X1]], [[:Category:X2|X2]], or [[:Category:X3|X3]]) or suppress categorization (see [[WP:CATSUP|category suppression in templates]]).

====Categorize templates====
Categorizing your template and documenting its proper usage will make it easier for other editors to find and use.

Category declarations for a template itself should be placed on the template's documentation subpage (or inside {{tag|noinclude}} [[html tag|tags]] if there is no documentation subpage) to avoid placing calling pages in the category.