Template:Abandoned/doc

This is documentation for {{aband}} and {{abandoned}}. This is not the template

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When to use

After four days unedited, unpublished articles may be marked abandoned (per WN:PROD).

Usage

Call in one of the following ways:

• {{subst:aband}} (Automatically includes the correct date)
• {{abandoned|December 31, 2024}} (Be sure to use the correct date)
• {{abandoned}} (Has no date, links to edit history for date)

Dates more than a year in the future or past may cause problems (incorrect number of days).

Examples

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This article is incomplete and has not been edited recently, and is considered abandoned. It is to be deleted on January 2 (in 2 days), if work on it does not resume. Please edit it so it becomes un-abandoned. If you feel that this article is ready to be reviewed by a peer reviewer, please add {{review}} to it.

This article is incomplete and has not been edited recently, and is considered abandoned. It is to be deleted on January 2 (in 2 days), if work on it does not resume. Please edit it so it becomes un-abandoned. If you feel that this article is ready to be reviewed by a peer reviewer, please add {{review}} to it.

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This article is incomplete and has not been edited recently, and is considered abandoned. It is to be deleted 2 days after this notice was added (See history for date of addition), if work on it does not resume. Please edit it so it becomes un-abandoned. If you feel that this article is ready to be reviewed by a peer reviewer, please add {{review}} to it.

This article is incomplete and has not been edited recently, and is considered abandoned. It is to be deleted 2 days after this notice was added (See history for date of addition), if work on it does not resume. Please edit it so it becomes un-abandoned. If you feel that this article is ready to be reviewed by a peer reviewer, please add {{review}} to it.

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Internals

The message is generated by subtemplate {{Abandoned/msg}}, which takes the number of days' warning as a parameter, thereby documenting that constant in the message markup. This template and its subtemplate may put the page in various of the following categories:

• Category:Abandoned — always.
• Category:Disputed — always.
• Category:Article assistance requested — always.
• Category:Articles requesting userspace — if parameter userspace is non-blank.
• Category:Abandoned, to be deleted in 2 days — or "in n days" or "in days ago", based on the data provided as an unnamed parameter if non-blank.

At this writing, the software platform does not update categorization that depends on date; so, while the bottom of a tagged page will show a category "Abandoned, to be deleted in 1 day", or whatever, the page will not show up on the list under that category unless the page has been edited on the current date.