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 This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the Federal government of the United States.
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This template is designed to be a meta-template, used to construct U.S. Government attribution message templates like {{USGS}} and {{Marine Corps}}. It could be used directly in an article.
Parameters
- agency (optional) - name of agency (or reference source) that produced material. This should not contain wikilinks.
 - policy (optional) - URL of re-use policy of agency or reference source
 - comment (optional) - free field that produces parenthesized comment at end
 - article (optional) - the title of the reference
 - any parameter accepted by {{cite web}} (optional) - passed thru to cite web
 - source (optional) - free field at end at shuts off most other arguments: if {{cite web}} is not appropriate
 
Usage
| Code | Produces | Comments | 
|---|---|---|
| {{Include-USGov |agency=United States Department}}  | 
Minimal usage: templates that call this one should pass in optional arguments. | |
| {{Include-USGov |agency=United States Department  | 
Replace internal wikilink about generic re-use to specific agency policy | |
| {{Include-USGov |agency=United States government  | 
comment is a free field that produces a parenthesized comment at end, agency should auto-wikilink | |
| {{Include-USGov |agency=United States Department  | 
Url without article becomes external link | |
| {{Include-USGov |agency=United States Department  | 
With article argument, template refers to specific document | |
| {{Include-USGov |agency=United States Department  | 
With article argument, url becomes external link to specific document | |
| {{Include-USGov |agency=United States Department  | 
Author can be added for use in inline citation | |
| {{Include-USGov |agency=United States Department  | 
Accessdate can be added, also | |
| {{Include-USGov |agency=United States Department  | 
All parameters can work together | |
| {{Include-USGov |agency=United States government  | 
Source parameter shuts down most arguments, leaves free field at end for citation template | |
| {{Include-USGov |agency=United States Department  | 
Example of source usage | 
See also
- Sandbox for experimental edits
 - Test to see if experiments worked
 - {{Cite USGov}} --- citation subtemplate
 
Templates created using Include-USGov
- Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Congressional Research Service
 - Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the United States Department of Health and Human Services
 - Wikipedia articles incorporating content from public domain material of the Library of Congress
 - Wikipedia articles incorporating text from public domain works of the United States Government
 - Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the United States Navy
 - United States government attribution templates