Template:Maintenance category

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.

Template documentation

This documentation is  transcluded from Template:Maintenance category/doc. (Edit | history)
Note to editors: Please don't categorize this template by editing it directly. Instead, place the category in its documentation page, in its "includeonly" section.

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.

Aliases

• The Template:Ordinal to word/0 to 999999 positional parameter is recognised as an alias for |desc =. If both |desc = and the positional parameter are present, the positional parameter is ignored.

• The parameter |1 = is recognised as an alias for |desc =. If both |desc = and |1 = are present, |1 = is ignored.

• The parameter |ALTTEXT = is recognised as an alias for |alt =. If both |alt = and |ALTTEXT = are present, |ALTTEXT = is ignored.

• The parameter |description = is recognised as an alias for |purpose =. If both |purpose = and |description = are present, |description = is ignored.

• The parameter |shortcut1 = is recognised as an alias for |shortcut =. If both |shortcut = and |shortcut1 = are present, |shortcut1 = is ignored.

Examples

Code

{{Maintenance category
|shortcut=CAT:WCAT
|hidden=true
|tracking=false
|purpose=This category tracks pages tagged with {{tl|Citation needed}}.<!-- This text will not display since "tracking" is set to "false"-->
|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  [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

Category:Hidden_categories hidden category]. It is not shown on its member pages, unless the corresponding  user preference (appearance → show hidden categories) is set.

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}}.

Code

{{Maintenance category
|tracking=true
|purpose=This category tracks pages that use {{tlx|albumchart|Billboard200}}.
}}

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.

This category tracks pages that use {{albumchart|Billboard200}}.

• This category is  hidden on its  [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

Category:Hidden_categories member pages]—unless the corresponding  user preference (appearance → show hidden categories) is set.

• These categories can be used to track, build and organize lists of pages needing "attention en masse" (for example, pages using deprecated syntax), or that may need to be edited at someone's earliest convenience.
• These categories also serve to aggregate members of several lists or sub-categories into a larger, more efficient list (discriminated by classifications).

Code

{{Maintenance category
|empty=true
|empty_text=This category is tracking [[academic journal]]s by the {{para|frequency}} parameter of their {{tl|Infobox journal}}.  This category should ideally be empty, but will be populated when non-standard {{para|frequency}} parameters are used.
|alt='''Alternative text''':
|desc=Usage with the {{para|alt}} parameter.
}}

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.

Administrators: Please do not delete this category even if it is empty! This category may be empty occasionally or even most of the time. This category is tracking academic journals by the |frequency = parameter of their {{Infobox journal}}. This category should ideally be empty, but will be populated when non-standard |frequency = parameters are used.

Alternative text: Usage with the |alt = parameter.

See also

Other category-header templates

Category-heading templates

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