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====How-to and information pages{{Anchor|Wikipedia how-to and information pages}}====
{{Shortcut|WP:INFOPAGES|WP:HOWTOPAGES|WP:SUPPLEMENTAL}}
Informative and instructional pages are typically edited by the community; while [[WP:Local consensus|not policies or guidelines themselves]], they are intended to supplement or clarify Wikipedia guidelines, policies, or other Wikipedia processes and practices that are communal norms. Where [[#Essay pages|essay pages]] offer advice or opinions through viewpoints, information pages should supplement or clarify technical or factual information about Wikipedia impartially. In comparison to policies and guidelines, information pages, like essay pages, have a limited status, and can reflect varying levels of [[WP:CONSENSUS|consensus]] and [[WP:CONACHIEVE|vetting]]. These pages are typically marked with the {{tl|Information page}}, {{tl|Wikipedia how-to}}, or {{tl|Supplement}}{{efn|The {{tl|Supplement}} template used for "explanatory essays" is intended as a separate "supplement" banner used for pages derived from policy improvement conversations. The template does not indicate a "higher status" within the community  for an essay, but is used to denote that the essay in question has wide acceptance to be linked from said policy or guideline page. See [[Template:Supplement]] for more information. }} template.

There is a large amount of overlap between the [[Wikipedia:Help namespace|Help namespace]] (which provides mainly technical information) and the Wikipedia namespace (which provides mainly procedural information and interpretation). For this reason, [[Help:redirect|redirect]]s and [[WP:hatnote|hatnote]]s are often set up between these two namespaces. See [[Help:About help pages]] for more information. For a listing of how-to and information pages, see the [[Help:Directory|help directory]].
* [[:Category:Wikipedia information pages]]
* [[:Category:Wikipedia how-to]]
* [[:Category:Wikipedia supplemental pages]]