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133: 86: 43: 31: 30:, although people sometimes forget. It's quite easy for a bot to go through these templates and subst them. AnomieBOT does this for all templates in 73:. To prevent disruption, AnomieBOT will also not subst any template that has over 100 transclusions unless that template is linked from 162:
Make sure the template is being directly transcluded in the page. Transclusion via other templates or modules (including things like
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If it does have that many transclusions, you will need to either subst those transclusions yourself or add a link to it from
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To allow for example usage, AnomieBOT will not subst template instances that have the parameters
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set to "subst:" is a common workaround in templates that predate the introduction of
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If the template should not be substituted automatically, edit it to remove it from
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to the template invocation. You might want to edit the template to recognize
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anyway to avoid it adding inappropriate categories and the like.
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What to do if AnomieBOT does not subst a template it should?
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is not present on the page, and the page is not protected.
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Make sure the template has fewer than 100 transclusions.
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What to do if AnomieBOT substs a template it shouldn't?
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AnomieBOT simply goes through all templates listed in
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Make sure the instance of the template is not using
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User:AnomieBOT
substituted
Category:Knowledge templates to be automatically substituted
Category:Knowledge templates to be automatically substituted
safesubst:
User:AnomieBOT/TemplateSubster force
Category:Knowledge templates to be automatically substituted
User:AnomieBOT/shutoff/TemplateSubster
User talk:AnomieBOT
Anomie
Category:Knowledge templates to be automatically substituted
nobots
bots
tlg
User:AnomieBOT/TemplateSubster force
User talk:AnomieBOT

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