User:One-Six/Template Categorizing

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• Meta templates: templates used to build templates, or to perform invisible functions as a part of a template
  • String manipulation templates
• Informational Templates: templates used to present a message(s)(needs specifying)
  • Page-top informational templates: InfoTemp used on the first several lines of a page, before the body of the article
    • Infobox templates: InfoTemp usually placed at the start of the body of the article, providing a overview of the article
    • Topic-specific page-top informational templates
  • Mid-page informational templates: InfoTemp used within the body of the article, potentially interrupting the flow
  • Page-bottom informational templates: InfoTemp used on the last several lines of a page, after the body of the article and after references
    • Navbox templates: InfoTemp built upon navboxes, usually placed after the body of the article (and before references?)
• Functional Templates (performing a visible, usually typesetting-related, function, like Template:Font, Template:Color)
  • Page-modifying templates: templates that modifies parts or all of a page not directly linked to the template's placement.
    • Title-modifying templates
• Maintenance Templates
  • Page-top maintenance templates
    • Page warning templates
  • Mid-page maintenance templates
• Discussion Templates
  • User warning templates
  • Voting Templates
• Template templates (e.g. Template:HighRisk, Template:Esoteric)
  • Template warning templates (high risk, esoteric)
  • Template informational templates (UsedByBots, high use)
• Category templates (e.g. Template:EmptyCatGood, Template:CategoryRedirect)
• Template documentations(location?)

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• Disambiguation templates
• Low-profile page-top templates
• Interwiki link templates

Non-tree categories

• info-derived templates
• high-use templates
• page-top templates