Editing Boilerplate text (section)

==Etymology==
"Boiler plate" originally referred to the [[rolled steel]] used to make [[boiler]]s to heat water.<ref>"boiler plate", ''Merriam-Webster Dictionary'' ([https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/boilerplate online])</ref><ref>[http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/boilerplate Boilerplate], Dictionary.com</ref> Metal printing plates ([[type metal]]) used in [[hot metal typesetting]] of prepared text such as advertisements or syndicated columns were distributed to small, local [[newspaper]]s, and became known as 'boilerplates' by analogy. One large supplier to newspapers of this kind of boilerplate was the Western Newspaper Union, which supplied "ready-to-print stories" that "contained national or international news" to papers with smaller geographic footprints, which could include advertisements pre-printed next to the conventional content.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/2004/05/29/building-that-was-home-to-boilerplate-to-become-luxury-condos/|title=Building that was home to boilerplate to become luxury condos|website=[[Chicago Tribune]] |date=29 May 2004 |access-date=2024-02-05}}</ref>