Editing Template:Failed policy/doc

== When to use ==

A proposal is considered unsuccessful if, within a reasonable timeframe, there is no consensus for its acceptance. It is not necessary for consensus to be totally opposed; if consensus is ambiguous or indifferent towards the matter and unlikely to change, the plan has also failed.

To include a shortcut, pass a parameter: <code><nowiki>{{Failed|TW:SHORT}}</nowiki></code>.



== How to use ==
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<code>&#123;&#123;Failed|''shortcut''}}</code>

The first unnamed parameter (or named as {{Para|1}}) is optional. If supplied, it displays as a link to the appropriate [[WP:SHORTCUT|shortcut]] page for the proposal. (Note that this is not automatic; MediaWiki cannot determine the shortcut from the page itself. You need to discover or create the shortcut yourself.)  Please do not create shortcuts for failed proposals; intelligible shortcuts are a finite resource.  In fact, shortcuts may be usurped from long-failed proposals to redirect to something active.

The {{para|date}} parameter can be used to add the date at which the page was tagged as failed, or at which a formal [[WP:PROPOSAL]] process did not accept the proposal.  It accepts any valid date format.

A {{para|result}} AKA {{para|reason}} parameter can also be used to add free-form text explaining the failure   This should be kept short (e.g., a concise sentence or two), since this is a banner template.  The content of this parameter will be auto-formatted as a separate paragraph below the default text (and thus should not itself contain paragraph markup).



== See also ==

* [[Test Wiki:Policies]]
* [[:Category:Test Wiki policies]]