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When editing Wikipedia regularly, it's often nice to have a references to some commonly used maintenance templates, user warnings, and other highly used templates. Everything is presented in one long page to make it easier to be found via your browser's find feature which can typically be accessed via the Ctrl+F shortcut key. Below is a summary by me, hopefully others might find it helpful. Being a Wikipedia page, you are free to make constructive edits.

Maintenance templates

Maintenance templates are templates that are added to articles, talk pages, and various other pages in order to notify readers of potential problems. Remember that it's ALWAYS better to fix issues wherever possible instead of slapping some template for others to come across. Also remember to use the most specific template possible and don't tab bomb the page.

Tag consolidation

Too many tags at the top of the article take up a substantial amount of space. When that happens you should consider wrapping it in the {{multiple issues}} template.

Syntax Example
{{multiple issues|{{Issue 1}}{{Issue 2}}{{Issue 3}}...}}}}

Cleanup

General cleanup

Syntax Example
{{Cleanup|date=April 2025}}
{{Cleanup|reason=some specific reason goes here|date=April 2025}}
{{cleanup AfD}}
{{Cleanup-remainder|date=April 2025}}
{{Cleanup-remainder|reason=why the remainder of this article needs cleanup}}
Template:Cleanup-remainder
{{Cleanup-rewrite|Reason for rewrite|article or section}}
{{Cleanup-rewrite|2=section}}
{{Cleanup-rewrite}}

Specific cleanup

Syntax Example
{{Cleanup Congress Bio}}
See #Biography
{{CIA}}
{{USRD-wrongdir}}
{{Cleanup-book|date=April 2025}}
{{cleanup-school}}
{{cleanup-film|date=April 2025}}
{{game guide|date=April 2025}}
{{Cleanup-university}}
{{Cleanup-university|section}}
{{Cleanup-university|disambiguation page}}
{{metricate}}
See #Math
{{Local|date=April 2025}}
{{Local|date=April 2025}}
Fiction
Syntax Example
{{fiction}}
{{Plot|date=April 2025}}
{{Plot|date=April 2025|section}}
{{All plot|date=April 2025}}
{{All plot|text|date=April 2025}}
{{All plot|section|date=April 2025}}
{{More plot|date=April 2025}}
{{No plot|date=April 2025}}
{{in-universe|date=April 2025}}


Copy editing

Syntax Example
{{Copy edit|for=|date=April 2025}}
{{Copy edit-section|for=|date=April 2025}}



Todo ...

Syntax Example

Biography

To add:

Math

From Template:Metricate

Functions


Lang-x

Tables of contents

Syntax Example
__NOTOC__ hides the TOC
__FORCETOC__ forces the TOC to show
{{Compact ToC|center=yes|seealso=yes|refs=yes|further=yes}}
{{alphanumeric TOC|primary=false}}
{{CompactTOCprefix|prefix=@}}
{{TOC US states|before=|DC=|PR=|UST=|after=|seealso=|refs=|extlinks=}}
{{Category TOC|align=|top=|numerals=|uppercase=|lowercase=}}

{{Large category TOC}}
{{Category IP TOC}}

To add

empty section

Syntax Example