Template:Tracking category
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This is a Tracking category:
A tracking category is one intended to build and maintain a list of pages primarily for the sake of the list itself,
allowing one to check that, but is not inherently useful within a categorization scheme.
Such categories are used to track syntaxes that may be deprecated in the future, maintain a list of pages that may need to be mass-edited later, or aggregate the members of several sub-categories by other classifications into one larger list, et cetera.
A tracking category is one intended to build and maintain a list of pages primarily for the sake of the list itself,
allowing one to check that, but is not inherently useful within a categorization scheme.
Such categories are used to track syntaxes that may be deprecated in the future, maintain a list of pages that may need to be mass-edited later, or aggregate the members of several sub-categories by other classifications into one larger list, et cetera.
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wpd | Wikipedia | Tracking category |
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cms | Commons | Tracking category |
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wbk | Wikibooks | Tracking category |
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wsp | Wikispecies | Tracking category |
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wvy | Wikiversity | Tracking category |
- Parameters 'ALTTEXT', 'CATS', et. al.
- 1. This template (originally) includes the head-end (includeonly) part of Category:Tracking categories with a more normal application name, and takes a parameter 'ALTTEXT' which is inserted after that templates simple message for purpose and such. It places both in an attractive blue box. (above)
- 2. It also auto-categorizes to and any categories specified by the parameter 'CATS=', which data need be full wiki-links with pipe-tricks.
- 3. Parameter 'inhibit', when defined to anything, suppresses auto-categorization of the page to the Category:Tracking categories. This is for self use on that category, and for cases when there are sub-categories under a common sub-category of Tracking categories.
An 'inhibit' example:
Categories for discussion has the sub-categories 'for merging', 'for renaming', and 'for deletion', all as sub-cats. So 'Inhibit' is used in those so they cat as sub-categories of 'for discussion', not of 'Tracking Categories' which already contains 'for discussion'.
