قالب:Dated maintenance category (articles)
المظهر
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Usage
[تعديل]- This template adds a category or dated category to a page.
- It will add the page to an optional additional category.
- If the dated category is invalid it will add the page to Category:Articles with invalid date parameter in template
Syntax
[تعديل]- Parameter 1: Default category name (without
Category
) – the category if there is no date, but also the stem of the category name when there is a date.. - Parameter 2: Preposition (from, since, in, as of).
- Parameter 3: Date (month year, e.g. سبتمبر 2024. Usually the "date" parameter of the calling template
.
- Parameter 4: Category all the articles go in, dated or not (if there is one).
- Parameter 5: Alternative default category, used when parameter 1 is right for forming the dated category, but the undated items need to go somewhere else.
Technical
[تعديل]The parameter onlyarticles ({{Dated maintenance category}} only) is used for template design, restricting the function of this template to article namespace (as in {{DMCA}} ).
Examples
[تعديل]will categorise all files, articles, categories and templates in Category:Wikipedia articles that are too technical from اغسطس 2024, if the date is set اغسطس 2024 e.g. If such a category does not exist, or the date was set incorrectly, this template will also add the article to Category:Articles with invalid date parameter in template.
قالب:DMCAT
will categorise all articles and article talk pages in Category:Wikipedia articles that are too technical from اغسطس 2024, if the date is set اغسطس 2024 e.g. If such a category does not exist, or the date was set incorrectly, this template will also add the article to Category:Articles with invalid date parameter in template.
will categorise all articles in Category:Articles to be split from اغسطس 2024, if the date is set اغسطس 2024 e.g. If such a category does not exist, or the date was set incorrectly, this template will also add the article to Category:Articles with invalid date parameter in template. In either case the article will be added to Category:All articles to be split.
is the straight category Category:Dutch mathematicians.
will categorise as in the above example but also in Category:Tolkien articles to be split if it exists. If it doesn't the page will be added to the hidden Category:Articles with tags with unsupported types.
Note
[تعديل]An incorrect date is any date which is not of the form سبتمبر 2024, e.g. سبتمبر 02, 2024
, or june
instead of June
, or other spelling mistakes.
Etymology
[تعديل]DMCA stands for "dated maintenance category – articles". Similar templates exist for certain other namespaces or combinations. DMCA is a metatemplate with highly circumscribed use, and not intended to be "editor facing".
Related templates
[تعديل]- {{DMCA}}
{{Dated maintenance category}}