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Template:Tracking category
This is a tracking category
It is used to build and maintain lists of pages—primarily for the sake of the lists themselves
and their use in article and category maintenance. It is not part of the encyclopedia's
categorization scheme.
More information:

This category is hidden on its member pages—unless the corresponding user

preference is set.
These categories are 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).

Template documentation

This template should not be substituted.

Usage
Use the basic syntax {{Tracking category}} on a category page to designate it as a tracking category. This template places the
category into Category:Tracking categories and Category:Hidden categories, causes the category to be hidden on its
member pages, and produces the following message box on the category page:

This is a tracking category

It is used to build and maintain lists of pages—primarily for the sake of the lists
themselves and their use in article and category maintenance. It is not part of the
encyclopedia's categorization scheme.

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More information:

This category is hidden on its member pages—unless the corresponding

user preference is set.
These categories are 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 template is only for use in the category namespace, ns=14. Using it on any page in other namespaces will add the page to
Category:Pages with templates in the wrong namespace and produce the following error message box on the category page:

The above template should only be transcluded in the Category namespace(s).

Parameters
category
Used to prevent the addition of Category:Tracking categories and optionally add a different category instead.
The syntax {{Tracking category|category=no}} will prevent a category page from being added to Category:Tracking categories.
The syntax {{Tracking category|category=[[Category:Some other category]]}} will add the category page to Category:Some
other category instead of Category:Tracking categories.

text
Used to add extra text to the template. The text will be shown in the visible (unfolded) part of the template.
The syntax {{Tracking category|text=Extra text goes here.}} produces:

This is a tracking category

It is used to build and maintain lists of pages—primarily for the sake of the lists
themselves and their use in article and category maintenance. It is not part of the
encyclopedia's categorization scheme.
Extra text goes here.
More information:

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This category is hidden on its member pages—unless the corresponding

user preference is set.
These categories are 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).

container
Use to further designate the category as a container category.
The syntax {{Tracking category|container=yes}} adds the category page to Category:Container categories and produces:

This is a tracking category

It is used to build and maintain lists of pages—primarily for the sake of the lists
themselves and their use in article and category maintenance. It is not part of the
encyclopedia's categorization scheme.
More information:

This category is hidden on its member pages—unless the corresponding

user preference is set.
These categories are 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 is a container category. Due to its scope, it should contain only subcategories.

unnamed parameter 1
When used with |container=yes, this parameter will add content below the container category message box. When used without
|container=yes, this parameter is ignored.
The syntax {{Tracking category|container=yes|This content is added below the container category message box.}} produces:

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This is a tracking category

It is used to build and maintain lists of pages—primarily for the sake of the lists
themselves and their use in article and category maintenance. It is not part of the
encyclopedia's categorization scheme.
More information:

This category is hidden on its member pages—unless the corresponding

user preference is set.
These categories are 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 is a container category. Due to its scope, it should contain only subcategories.

This content is added below the container category message box.

- Due to the current coding of the template this is limited to a single paragraph with, SPAN style formatting,

See also

Supporting templates
{{Cmbox}}
{{Collapse top}} and {{Collapse bottom}}
{{Category other}}
{{Single namespace}}

Other category-header templates

Category-heading templates

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Templates meant to appear at or near the top of category pages

{{Category explanation}} · {{Set category}} · {{Topic category}} · {{Stub category}} · {{Parent-only stub category}} ·
Main
{{Regional stub category}}
By namespace {{File category}} · {{Category game screenshot header}} · {{File template notice}} · {{Image template notice1}} ·
other {{Media template notice}} · {{Help category}} · {{Portal category}} · {{Template category}} · {{User category}} ·
{{Sockpuppet category}} · {{Maintenance category}}
{{All included}} · {{Category diffuse}} · {{Category header}} · {{Container category}} · {{Diffusing subcategory}} ·
Maintenance {{Non-diffusing parent category}} · {{Non-diffusing subcategory}} · {{Overpopulated category}} · {{Possibly empty category}} ·
{{Redirect category}} · {{Tracking category}}
See also category hatnote templates Category:Category header templates

The above documentation is transcluded from Template:Tracking category/doc. (edit (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Track

ing_category/doc&action=edit) | history (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Tracking_category/doc&action=history))
Editors can experiment in this template's sandbox (edit (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Tracking_category/sandbox&action=edi
t) | diff (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AComparePages&page1=Template%3ATracking+category&page2=Template%3ATracking+cate
gory%2Fsandbox)) and testcases (create (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Tracking_category/testcases&action=edit&preload=Templat
e%3ADocumentation%2Fpreload-testcases)) pages.
Please add categories to the /doc subpage. Subpages of this template.

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