Template:Excerpt/doc
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This template is used for reusing parts of pages in other pages. This practice has the following advantages:
- Reduces maintenance by avoiding duplicate content that must be updated multiple times
- Improves content quality by encouraging editors to merge related content, rather than having multiple versions in various stages of development
- Fosters collaboration by channeling contributors into one place, rather than working in parallel
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It also has the following disadvantages:
- Impediment to editing as you have to go to the sub article to make changes to the main article
- Reduces accuracy as an excerpt of one article is not always a perfect fit into a new article (but see #Refinement using inclusion control)
- Decreases visibility as changes to the sub article will not appear on the watchlist of editors of the main article
This template extends the capabilities of the built-in normal transclusion and labeled section transclusion.