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-<table {{#if:{{{id|}}}|id="{{{id|}}}"}} class="plainlinks fmbox
+<includeonly><table {{#if:{{{id|}}}|id="{{{id|}}}"}} class="plainlinks fmbox
 {{#switch:{{{type|}}}
 | warning    = fmbox-warning
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 | system     =    <!-- Do nothing, valid "type" -->
 | #default   = <div style="text-align: center;">This message box is using an invalid "type={{{type|}}}" parameter and needs fixing.</div>[[Category:Wikipedia message box parameter needs fixing|{{main other|Main:}}{{FULLPAGENAME}}]]<!-- Sort on namespace -->
-}}<noinclude>
+}}</includeonly><noinclude>Gonna be honest -- I basically brought this over as a hasty cut-and-paste so I could get the [[Template:Script doc auto]] system to work. This is one of Wikipedia's standard templates for making message boxes with the color and message icon of your choice. The template is somewhat redundant of [[Template:Divbox]], except that this is a more powerful, less user-friendly version. '''--Iritscen'''<br />
+'''Sample usages'''<br />
+The most interesting parameter is "type" -- you can choose either "warning", "editnotice", or "system". These types have different appearances, based on classes defined in [[MediaWiki:Common.css]]. We'll explore a few ways to use Fmbox below, but see the link at the bottom for more information on the many abilities of this template.
+First let's start with a basic warning-type box.
+<pre>{{fmbox
+  | type  = warning
+  | text  = Warning. You did not tie your shoelaces. Ha ha. Made you look.
+  }}</pre> yields:
+{{fmbox
+  | type  = warning
+  | text  = Warning. You did not tie your shoelaces. Ha ha. Made you look.
+  }}
+Here we define our own background, so we don't bother with passing in a "type":
+<pre>{{fmbox
+  | style = background: #ecfcf4;
+  | image = none
+  | text  = Sorry, even computers need to lighten things up once in a while.
+  }}</pre> yields:
+{{fmbox
+  | style = background: #ecfcf4;
+  | image = none
+  | text  = Sorry, even computers need to lighten things up once in a while.
+  }}
+For a generic "info" message, you can keep it simple (no image parameter is given, so Fmbox uses the icon from its "editnotice" style, but the "system" style for the box's appearance):
+<pre>{{fmbox
+  | text  = Computers make bad jokes.
+  }}</pre> yields:
+{{fmbox
+  | text  = Computers make bad jokes.
+  }}
+<br /><br />
+This was just Fmbox 101; there's a ton more functionality in this template, but I'm not going to document it all here. Read the template's original docs here for all the gory details: [[wikipedia:Template:Fmbox]].
 [[Category:Header and footer templates]]
 </noinclude>