Template:Infobox Template/purpose

This template offers a multiple choice for specifying the purpose of another template. It can also automatically categorize the page of that template under the category for that purpose.

Parameters

 * 1) The selected purpose from the following values (no parameter name and values are case insensitive):
 * 2) * copyright
 * 3) * documentation
 * 4) * formatting
 * 5) * infobox
 * 6) * navigation
 * 7) * notice
 * 8) * website
 * 9) * any other (non)empty value defaults to: unknown
 * nocat: Whether or not to suppress categorization under the chosen category (defaults to false, which means auto categorization).

Note: more category values may be added depending on the purpose of any newly added template, provided the category pages in question are also created and organized into a logical category structure.

Examples
Any of the above values may be used like this:



The case of the value is not important:



You may leave the "purpose" undefined (which would raise the Templates of unknown purpose maintenance task) by not specifying any valid value, so these all have the same result:



The nocat parameter may be used to suppress automatic categorization like this (any value will do):

This would render the same result as the first example above, but would not automatically categorize under Category:Formatting templates. This feature works both on valid values and the maintenance task mentioned above.