Wikipedia:Template index/Maintenance

For general maintenance templates such as Cleanup, see Wikipedia:Template index/Cleanup.

Note that a message about "this page" may have an unintended effect on a page that includes the page with the message. If that applies, put the message inside noinclude tags, or be specific about which page the message refers to.

Articles undergoing major edits

Please note that these templates are courtesies; nobody is required to stop editing just because they're shown.

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{{In use}} links talk edit
{{In use|30 minutes to fix the information in the History section}} links talk edit
{{Under construction}} links talk edit
{{In use section|a short while}} links talk edit

New articles

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{{In creation}} links talk edit
{{Newlist}} links talk edit

Protected articles, pages and images

Please note that these templates are only meant to indicate that pages have been protected; adding any of them to a page will not add any protection to that page.

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{{pp-dispute}} links talk edit
{{pp-vandalism}} links talk edit
{{pp-vandalism}} links talk edit
{{pp-protected}} links talk edit
{{pp-protected}} links talk edit
{{pp-sock}} links talk edit
{{pp-move}} links talk edit
{{pp-office}} links talk edit

Copyright violations

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{{Copyvio|url=http://example.org}} Talk	Investigation of potential copyright issue Please note this is about the text of this Wikipedia article; it should not be taken to reflect on the subject of this article. Do not restore or edit the blanked content on this page until the issue is resolved by an administrator, copyright clerk or VRT agent. If you have just labeled this page as a potential copyright issue, please follow the instructions for filing at the bottom of the box. The previous content of this page or section has been identified as posing a potential copyright issue, as a copy or modification of the text from the source(s) below, and is now listed at Copyright problems : {{{url}}} Unless the copyright status of the text of this page or section is clarified and determined to be compatible with Wikipedia's content license, the problematic text and revisions or the entire page may be deleted one week after the time of its listing. Temporarily, the original posting is still accessible for viewing in the page history. Can you help resolve this issue? Further information: Wikipedia:Copyright problems § Responding to articles listed for copyright investigation If you hold the copyright to this text, you can license it in a manner that allows its use on Wikipedia. You must permit the use of your material under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License (CC BY-SA 3.0) and the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) (unversioned, with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts). Explain your intent to license the content on this article's discussion page. To confirm your permission, you can either display a notice to this effect at the site of original publication or send an e-mail from an address associated with the original publication to permissions-enwikimedia.org or a postal letter to the Wikimedia Foundation. These messages must explicitly permit use under CC BY-SA and the GFDL. See Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials. Note that articles on Wikipedia must be written from a neutral point of view and must be verifiable in published third-party sources; consider whether, copyright issues aside, your text is appropriate for inclusion in Wikipedia. You can demonstrate that this text is in the public domain or is already under a license suitable for Wikipedia. Explain this on this article's discussion page, with reference to evidence. Wikipedia:Public domain and Wikipedia:Compatibly licensed may assist in determining the status. Otherwise, you may rewrite this page without copyright-infringing material. Your rewrite should be placed on this page, where it will be available for an administrator or clerk to review it at the end of the listing period. Follow this link to create the temporary subpage. Simply modifying copyrighted text is not sufficient to avoid copyright infringement—if the original copyright violation cannot be cleanly removed or the article reverted to a prior version, it is best to write the article from scratch. (See Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing.) For license compliance, any content used from the original article must be properly attributed; if you use content from the original, please leave a note at the top of your rewrite saying as much. You may duplicate non-infringing text that you had contributed yourself. It is always a good idea, if rewriting, to identify the point where the copyrighted content was imported to Wikipedia and to check to make sure that the contributor did not add content imported from other sources. When closing investigations, clerks and administrators may find other copyright problems than the one identified. If this material is in the proposed rewrite and cannot be easily removed, the rewrite may not be usable. State that you have created a rewrite on this article's discussion page. About importing text to Wikipedia Further information: Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources Posting copyrighted material without the express permission of the copyright holder is considered copyright infringement, which is both illegal and against Wikipedia policy. If you have express permission, this must be verified either by explicit release at the source or by e-mail or letter to the Wikimedia Foundation. See Wikipedia:Declaration of consent for all enquiries. Policy requires that we block those who repeatedly post copyrighted material without express permission. Instructions for filing If you have tagged the article for investigation, please complete the following steps: Add the following to the bottom of Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2023 May 24: * {{subst:article-cv|Wikipedia:Template index/Maintenance}} from {{{url}}}. ~~~~ Place this notice on the talk page of the contributor of the copyrighted material: {{subst:Nothanks-web|pg=Wikipedia:Template index/Maintenance|url={{{url}}}}} ~~~~ To hide a section instead of an entire article, add the template to the beginning of the section and {{Copyvio/bottom}} at the end of the portion you intend to blank.
{{Copyvio-revdel}} links talk edit
{{Copypaste}} links talk edit
{{Close paraphrasing}} links talk edit
{{Copyvio links}} links talk edit

Articles requiring significant attention and other issues

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{{Multiple issues}} Edit – Talk – Links	Use the section=y parameter if you use the template for a particular section. To tag a specific issue, set any string of text to the parameter, such as issue=y To specify the month tagged for the categories that sort articles by month, type issue=May 2023 or issue=April 2007	Article or section with three or more issues
{{Expert needed}} Edit – Talk – Links – Category		Article page
{{Globalize}} Edit – Talk – Links – Category		Article page
{{Missing information}} Edit – Talk – Links – Category		Article page
{{ISSN-needed}} Edit – Talk – Links – Category		Talk page
{{Very long}} Talk – Links – Category		Article page
{{Citations broken from PEIS limit}} Talk – Links – Category		Article page

Categorization issues

This is about categorization issues in articles. For tags that are placed on categories, see Wikipedia:Template messages/Category namespace and Wikipedia:Template messages/Deletion.

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{{Uncategorized}} category links talk edit
{{Improve categories}} category links talk edit
{{Unreferenced category}} category links talk edit

For inline article placement

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{{copyvio link}} Edit Talk Links		After links referencing an external Web site which is strongly suspected of carrying a work in violation of the creator's copyright.
{{Update inline}} Edit Talk Links		After outdated statements, information or sources.