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[[Wikipedia:Template namespace|Templates]] are not articles, and thus do not belong in ''content categories''. It is however a recommendation to place them in '''template categories''' – subcategories of [[:Category:Wikipedia templates]] – to assist when looking for templates of a certain type. For example, [[:Template:Schubert string quartets]] is categorized under [[:Category:String quartets by composer navigational boxes]], which should be a subcategory of [[:Category:Music navigational boxes]] (type) but [[:Template:Schubert string quartets]] should ''not'' be categorized under [[:Category:Franz Schubert]] or [[:Category:String quartets]] (content).

Pages using a template should rarely be placed in the same categories as the template itself. To ensure this separation, the category for the template should be placed on the template's documentation page, normally after the two pipes in a <syntaxhighlight lang=wikitext inline><includeonly>{{Sandbox other||...}}</includeonly></syntaxhighlight> block. Because template documentation is rarely [[Wikipedia:Protection policy|protected]], template categorization can be modified by all editors even when the template code itself is protected from editing by most editors. When there is no documentation page, the category for the template may be placed at the bottom of the template itself, within a {{tag|noinclude}} block. There should be no spaces or new lines between the last part of the template proper and the opening {{tag|noinclude|o}} tag.