This page contains guidelines for and documentation of the templates used in conjunction with temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Each temple has a data page that stores the data to be used in the templates, of the form: Template:LDS Temple/Temple name. All the templates that format temple data use a single set of data for each temple. Thus updating the data for each temple will only need to be done in one location.
Using the data in multiple locations is accomplished by transcluding the datapage along with a format parameter, which indicates which template to use. Thus the calls to transclude temple data will be a call of the form ((LDS Temple/Temple name | format= format template )).
All documentation has been moved to the Template:LDS Temple/doc page as having that information here resulted in accusations of WikiProject ownership (depsite the fact that most of the people using the structure that was organized by the project are not members of the wikiproject.