Template:Maintenance task

This template is a way of categorizing an article under a maintenance category, and at the same time showing a message explaining the issue. Use this template as the default option for other article categorizers.

Parameters

• category: The category name to use for the Template:Categorizer and maintenance task message (case sensitive, mandatory)
• catlabel, article and label: Additional parameters for the Template:Categorizer.
• reason: Details about the issue that this task should solve (case sensitive, defaults to displaying only category link)
• nocat: Whether or not to suppress categorization under category (defaults to false, which means auto categorization).

Note: This template does not actually show the maintenance message itself, but stores it in a variable that is handled by the infobox of the article. It does show the result of the categorizer.

Syntax

{{maintenance task
 |category=
 |catlabel=
 |article=
 |label=
 |reason=
 |nocat=
}}

Examples

Common use includes the category, label and reason parameters:

{{maintenance task
 |category=Characters of unknown magic
 |label=unknown
 |reason=The '''magical''' parameter for the [[Template:Infobox Character|character infobox]] isn't specified
}}

unknown ^{[list all]}

The infobox of the article will then bump the task in it's maintenance message like this (if there aren't any others):

This article raises some maintenance tasks. You may help by solving the following: Characters of unknown magic: The magical parameter for the character infobox isn't specified

You may leave "reason" undefined by not specifying a value, which would only show a link to the category in the maintenance message like this:

{{maintenance task|category=Characters of unknown magic|label=unknown}}

unknown ^{[list all]}

The infobox of the article will then bump the task in it's maintenance message like this (if there aren't any others):

This article raises some maintenance tasks. You may help by solving the following: Characters of unknown magic