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tags for templates that are used occasionally but may often have zero transclusions. Adding this template will prevent the template on which it is transcluded from appearing on reports of unused templates like Wikipedia:Database reports/Unused templates/1, which in turn will limit misguided TfD nominations.
Examples of reasons why useful templates may not have any transclusions include, but are not limited to:
((Transclusionless))
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Do not use this for templates that must be substituted! That is what ((Always substitute)) is for.
|should=yes
can be used if the template should not be transcluded, i.e. an error will be shown if the template is transcluded. It will replace the "may" with "should" in "This template may have no transclusions."
|reason=
can be used to customize the message within the template. The default reason, which will be replaced by your custom text, is "it is substituted by a tool or script, it is used as part of a short-term or less active Wikipedia process, or for some other reason".