Template:PlaceholderModel/doc


 * Description
 * Displays a box with text about the page being merely a placeholder


 * Syntax
 * Just type PlaceholderModel on a page that you found from a red link.


 * Adapting
 * To create a similar but distinctive template for a particular class of article, copy the whole of the template from its edit box then change your address bar so that a new name appears after "Template" then hit "Enter" so that a blank edit box appears then paste the code in then adapt it any way you like. For example, change the message, change the background colour (experimenting with the "8FF" using different letters - A B C D E or F - or digits), change the category into which you want target pages to go, change the percentage of the page width that the box will occupy, and so on


 * Comment
 * A disadvantage of converting red links into placeholders is that ordinary readers won't see red links and will therefore not realise that an article needs to be written, and such readers might be the very ones who could easily write about that subject if they realised it needed a real article.