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=== Usage ===
Meta template to count pages following a numerically incremental naming pattern, like archive pages. Can count up to 999, optimized to use at most 18 #ifexist checks, and somewhat optimized for typical page distributions (see [[Benford's law]]).

This template can be substituted.

== Examples ==
*<code><nowiki>{{Count pages|WP:Featured article candidates/Battle of Villers-Bocage/archive}}</nowiki></code> → {{Count pages|WP:Featured article candidates/Battle of Villers-Bocage/archive}}
*<code><nowiki>{{Count pages|User_talk:Amalthea/Archive }}</nowiki></code> → {{Count pages|User_talk:Amalthea/Archive }} {{xt|Note the space after "Archive"!}}
*<code><nowiki>{{Count pages|Pages that do not exist}}</nowiki></code> → {{Count pages|Pages that do not exist}}
*<code><nowiki>{{subst:Count pages|User_talk:Amalthea/Archive }}</nowiki></code> → 4
*<code><nowiki>[[Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive{{Count pages|Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive}}]]</nowiki></code> → [[Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive{{Count pages|Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive}}]]

=== See also ===
* {{tl|Number of archives}}

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