Template:Monthly clean-up category

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Usage

The simplest usage is just {{Monthly clean-up category}} In this case a default message page for that group of categories will need to exist. See Template:Monthly clean-up category/Messages for a list of existing message pages and to understand the naming convention.

Also the category will need to follow the naming convention "Blah blah from June 2025". (See #Limitations for more information.)

If a red-linked counter category is shown, simply populate it with {{Counter category}}.

Parameter toc

• toc = focus - gives a focus letter
• toc = toc - give a category style table of contents
• toc = none -

Parameter hidden

• hidden = n - The category will not be hidden.

Examples

Focus

<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext">

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 is hidden on its 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).

This category combines all silly articles from 00 gory (gory-00) to enable us to work through the backlog more systematically. It is a member of Category:test stubs.
silly articles should be deleted So that articles don't remain in this category too long, a suggestion is made to work on articles beginning with a certain letter. The letter is changed daily.

The current focus is on articles beginning with: C. </syntaxhighlight>

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 is hidden on its 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).

This category combines all silly articles from June 2025 (2025-06) to enable us to work through the backlog more systematically. It is a member of Category:test stubs.
silly articles should be deleted So that articles don't remain in this category too long, a suggestion is made to work on articles beginning with a certain letter. The letter is changed daily.

The current focus is on articles beginning with: C.

Toc

<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext">

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 is hidden on its 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).

This category combines all silly articles from 00 gory (gory-00) to enable us to work through the backlog more systematically. It is a member of Category:test stubs.
silly articles should be made sensible </syntaxhighlight>

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 is hidden on its 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).

This category combines all silly articles from June 2025 (2025-06) to enable us to work through the backlog more systematically. It is a member of Category:test stubs.
silly articles should be made sensible

No TOC

<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext">

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 is hidden on its 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).

This category combines all silly articles from 00 gory (gory-00) to enable us to work through the backlog more systematically. It is a member of Category:test stubs.
silly articles should be rewritten </syntaxhighlight>

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 is hidden on its 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).

This category combines all silly articles from June 2025 (2025-06) to enable us to work through the backlog more systematically. It is a member of Category:test stubs.
silly articles should be rewritten

Another example

<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext">

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 is hidden on its 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).

This category combines all silly articles from 00 gory (gory-00) to enable us to work through the backlog more systematically. It is a member of Category:test stubs.
silly articles should be revised </syntaxhighlight>

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 is hidden on its 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).

This category combines all silly articles from June 2025 (2025-06) to enable us to work through the backlog more systematically. It is a member of Category:test stubs.
silly articles should be revised

Nearly empty copy

<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext">

0% completed (estimate)

   

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 is hidden on its 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).

This category combines all from 00 gory (gory-00) to enable us to work through the backlog more systematically. It is a member of [[:Category:]].
Here are the message pages.

Some may be {{Null}}

Note that Type messages will be used if they exist, whereas Main messages will be used if there is no message parameter. This is because it is always possible to create a default type message, and it is never possible to create a default (non-null) main message.

Type messages have the parameters month name , year and cat available to them.

Main messages have month name and year.

Messages are called from Template:Monthly clean-up category/core

Type messages

• Monthly clean-up category/Type
• Monthly clean-up category/Type/Uncategorized

Main messages

• Monthly clean-up category/Messages
• Monthly clean-up category/Messages/
• Monthly clean-up category/Messages/Article sections to be split
• Monthly clean-up category/Messages/Articles about possible neologisms
• Monthly clean-up category/Messages/Articles containing ambiguous dates
• Monthly clean-up category/Messages/Articles containing potentially dated statements
• Monthly clean-up category/Messages/Articles covered by WikiProject Wikify
• Monthly clean-up category/Messages/Articles needing examples
• Monthly clean-up category/Messages/Articles needing more precise reference URLs
• Monthly clean-up category/Messages/Articles sourced only to NRIS
• Monthly clean-up category/Messages/Articles tagged with the inline citation overkill template
• Monthly clean-up category/Messages/Articles to be merged
• Monthly clean-up category/Messages/Articles to be split
• Monthly clean-up category/Messages/Articles with broken or outdated citations
• Monthly clean-up category/Messages/Articles with close paraphrasing
• Monthly clean-up category/Messages/Articles with dead external links
• Monthly clean-up category/Messages/Articles with failed verification
• Monthly clean-up category/Messages/Articles with fictioncruft
• Monthly clean-up category/Messages/Articles with minor POV problems
• Monthly clean-up category/Messages/Articles with peacock terms
• Monthly clean-up category/Messages/Articles with self-published sources
• Monthly clean-up category/Messages/Articles with specifically marked weasel-worded phrases
• Monthly clean-up category/Messages/Articles with suspected copyright violations
• Monthly clean-up category/Messages/Articles with too many examples
• Monthly clean-up category/Messages/Articles with topics of unclear notability
• Monthly clean-up category/Messages/Articles with unsourced statements
• Monthly clean-up category/Messages/Articles with weasel words
• Monthly clean-up category/Messages/Categories for discussion
• Monthly clean-up category/Messages/Cleanup tagged articles without a reason field
• Monthly clean-up category/Messages/Content moved from mainspace to draftspace
• Monthly clean-up category/Messages/Dead-end pages
• Monthly clean-up category/Messages/Image captions for cleanup
• Monthly clean-up category/Messages/Manually maintained portal pages
• Monthly clean-up category/Messages/NPOV disputes
• Monthly clean-up category/Messages/Portals with triaged subpages
• Monthly clean-up category/Messages/Self-contradictory articles
• Monthly clean-up category/Messages/Type/Article sections to be split
• Monthly clean-up category/Messages/Type/Articles to be expanded
• Monthly clean-up category/Messages/Type/Articles to be split
• Monthly clean-up category/Messages/Type/Articles with dead external links
• Monthly clean-up category/Messages/Type/BLP articles lacking sources
• Monthly clean-up category/Messages/Type/Use dmy dates
• Monthly clean-up category/Messages/Type/Use mdy dates
• Monthly clean-up category/Messages/Type/Wikipedia references cleanup
• Monthly clean-up category/Messages/Uncategorized
• Monthly clean-up category/Messages/Unverified BLPs
• Monthly clean-up category/Messages/Wikipedia articles lacking focus
• Monthly clean-up category/Messages/Wikipedia articles needing clarification
• Monthly clean-up category/Messages/Wikipedia articles needing time reference citations
• Monthly clean-up category/Messages/Wikipedia articles needing words, phrases or quotes attributed
• Monthly clean-up category/Messages/Wikipedia articles that are excessively detailed
• Monthly clean-up category/Messages/Wikipedia articles that are incomprehensible
• Monthly clean-up category/Messages/Wikipedia articles that may have off-topic sections
• Monthly clean-up category/Messages/Wikipedia articles with possible unattributed translations
• Monthly clean-up category/Messages/Wikipedia articles with sections named inappropriately
• Monthly clean-up category/Messages/Wikipedia neutral point of view disputes
• Monthly clean-up category/Messages/Wikipedia red link cleanup
• Monthly clean-up category/Messages/Wikipedia references cleanup
• Monthly clean-up category/Type
• Monthly clean-up category/Type/Uncategorized
• Monthly clean-up category/core
• Monthly clean-up category/core/sandbox
• Monthly clean-up category/doc
• Monthly clean-up category/monthname
• Monthly clean-up category/monthname/doc
• Monthly clean-up category/monthname/sandbox
• Monthly clean-up category/monthno
• Monthly clean-up category/monthno/sandbox
• Monthly clean-up category/name part
• Monthly clean-up category/outer core
• Monthly clean-up category/sandbox
• Monthly clean-up category/to add
• Monthly clean-up category/toadd

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Limitations

If the category name does not follow the convention "Blah blah from June 2025", the template will need to have "year" "month name" and "monthno" supplied.

Example

<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext"> ...

| monthno = 06
| month name = June
| year    = 2025

... </syntaxhighlight>

See also

• {{Monthly maintenance category}}
• {{Parent monthly clean-up category}}

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