Help:Maintenance templates

The employs maintenance templates to mark articles that need editor attention. We encourage any contributor to make use of these maintenance templates, as it makes collaborative editing much easier to coordinate.

To place a maintenance template on a page, copy one of the codes below to the beginning of the article.

Common maintenance templates
For more information on the templates, see the documentation on their individual pages.

Article status
These templates inform other editors about the article's state.


 * Archived
 * Current
 * Dead end
 * Recent addition
 * Orphan
 * Stub
 * UnderConstruction
 * Updating

Request action
The following templates can be used to request assistance from other editors.

Page content

 * Cleanup
 * Help wanted
 * Rewrite

File content

 * Notes for improvement

Template usage

 * Reason

Page organization

 * Reason for deletion
 * Proposed merger target
 * Proposed target title
 * Split