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This template's documentation was also ported from Wikipedia, originally from Template:Subst only/doc/doc. The original authors of the documentation are shown on the documentation's edit history page.
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This template should not be substituted.

{{Subst only}} produces the following notice:

This template should always be substituted (i.e., use {{subst:Template name}}).

(but {{Subst only}} itself should not be substituted.)

Usage

{{Subst only}}

{{Subst only}} should be placed on the documentation subpage of any template that requires substitution rather than transclusion (i.e. not on the template's own page itself).

Pages that include {{Subst only}} are added to Category:Substituted templates.

Parameters

|alt=

Use to set an alternate and transcludable name for the template.