Template:Maintenance category
Appearance
This is a maintenance category, used for maintenance of the Wikipedia project. It is not part of the encyclopedia and contains non-article pages, or groups articles by status rather than subject. Do not include this category in content categories. |
Usage
This template should be placed at the top of categories used in the maintenance of Wikipedia rather than as part of the encyclopedia – for example, at the top of Category:Wikipedia administration.
Parameters
The following descriptions assume the template is transcluded on a page in the Category namespace.
|shortcut= | Enables a shortcut to the category to be displayed by the template. Multiple shortcuts are supported: |shortcut1= up to |shortcut5= . |
|hidden=true/yes/on | Causes the template to hide the page (the category), add it to Category:Hidden categories and to include a {{Hidden category}} -style message. |
|tracking=true/yes/on | Causes the template to add the page (the category) to Category:Tracking categories and include a {{Tracking category}} -style message.1To add a short explanation of the tracking category after the message, use |purpose=Short explanation. |
|container=true/yes/on | Causes the template to add the page (the category) to Category:Container categories and include a {{Container category}} -style message.2 |
|desc= or |1= or | (first unnamed parameter) | Text supplied will be placed below the template with a boldfaced header of "Description:". (The word "Description" can be replaced by something else, with |alt=Something else ). |
- 1 Category:Contents categorisation and Category:Tracking categories self-categorisation is prevented by setting
|tracking_category=false/no/off
. - 2 Category:Container categories self-categorisation is prevented by setting
|container_category=false/no/off
.
Example
Code
{{Maintenance category |shortcut=CAT:WCAT |hidden=true |tracking=true |purpose=This category tracks pages tagged with {{tl|Citation needed}}. |desc=Category for articles (and other pages, such as portals and mainspace-intended templates) tagged as needing or more citations for verification, using the {{tlx|Citation needed}} template. Does not include discussion pages tagged with {{tlx|Talkfact}}. }}
This is a maintenance category, used for maintenance of the Wikipedia project. It is not part of the encyclopedia and contains non-article pages, or groups articles by status rather than subject. Do not include this category in content categories.
This is a tracking category. It builds and maintains a list of pages primarily for the sake of the list itself. They are not part of the encyclopedia's categorization scheme.
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Description: Category for articles (and other pages, such as portals and mainspace-intended templates) tagged as needing or more citations for verification, using the
{{Citation needed}}
template. Does not include discussion pages tagged with {{Talkfact}}
.