The following is a list of article prototypes. I would have preferred to call them templates, but this term is already being used in two separate contexts here: DokuWiki refers to its skins or themes officially as templates (for whatever goddamn reason why would you even), whereas WikiMedia-style templates - which allow you to use a shortcut to input a bunch of markup and formatting into an article - can be called through the wst plugin.
WSTs can be used to easily replicate a particular format, and in theory you could do this to create all instances of a particular kind of article. However, you run into problems, or at least ugliness, when all those articles contain mostly the same kind of information, but not all exactly the same. Sure, you could include all the possible section headings and just leave some blank - but then you've got an article with a bunch of unnecessary headings cluttering it up. So instead, I've created these prototypes; they're frameworks for organizing certain article types. It's recommended, and encouraged, that they be used, and they can be simply copypasted into a blank article of the correct type, but unnecessary headings can be deleted out as needed.