Template:Topic talk

This page serves as a project discussion for the Good topic, {{{title}}}.

Appropriate discussion on this page includes:

Working definition of the topic.
Vital improvements to articles necessary to maintain status for the topic.
Potential improvements to the topic's member articles.
Possible additions to the scope of the topic.

General questions about maintaining good and featured topics can also be referred to Wikipedia talk:Good topics and Wikipedia talk:Featured topics.

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This works much like Template:ArticleHistory, but is designed for the Milestones of Featured Topics instead of Featured Articles. As such, there are a few differences in how the template should be used in practice.

This template should only be used by genuine featured topics or former featured topics, as otherwise it messes up the categories. This template should not be updated to include a candidacy until after the candidacy has concluded.

This template employs intricate features of template syntax.

You are encouraged to familiarise yourself with its setup and parser functions before editing the template. If your edit causes unexpected problems, please undo it quickly, as this template may appear on a large number of pages.
You can conduct experiments, and should test all major changes, in either , the general template sandbox, or your user space before changing anything here.

Syntax

{{Featuredtopictalk
| title         = 
| action1       = 
| action1date   = 
| action1link   = 
| action1result = 

| action2       = 
| action2date   = 
| action2link   = 
| action2result = 

| currentstatus = 
}}

How to use in practice

Process	actionX	actionXdate	actionXlink	actionXresult
Good or featured topic candidate	`GTC` `FTC`	Date ended	Link to GTC/FTC page	If the topic was promoted, put "`'''Promoted''' with articles '''[[Mainarticle]]''', [[Subarticle1]], ... and [[SubarticleX]].`" If there were additional articles which were at one point part of the nomination, but which were ultimately not included, also put "`'''Did not include''' articles [[Subarticle1]], ... and [[SubarticleX]].`" If the topic was not promoted, put "`'''Did not promote''' with articles '''[[Mainarticle]]''', [[Subarticle1]], ... and [[SubarticleX]].`"
Supplementary nomination	`GTA` `FTA`	Date ended	Link to GTA/FTA page	If articles were added, put "`'''Added''' articles [[Subarticle1]], ... and [[SubarticleX]].`" If any of the articles added became the main article, place them in bold. If articles were removed, put "`'''Removed''' articles [[Subarticle1]], ... and [[SubarticleX]].`" If any of the articles removed were the main article, place them in bold. If there were additional articles which were at one point proposed to be added, but which were ultimately not added, also put "`'''Did not include''' articles [[Subarticle1]], ... and [[SubarticleX]].`" If there were additional articles which were at one point proposed to be removed, but which were ultimately not removed, also put "`'''Did not remove''' articles [[Subarticle1]], ... and [[SubarticleX]].`"
Good or featured topic removal candidate	`GTR` `FTR`	Date ended	Link to GTR/FTR page	If the topic was kept, put "`Kept.`" Additionally, if articles were added, also put "`'''Added''' articles [[Subarticle1]], ... and [[SubarticleX]].`" If any of the articles added became the main article, place them in bold. Additionally, if articles were removed, also put "`'''Removed''' articles [[Subarticle1]], ... and [[SubarticleX]].`" If any of the articles removed were the main article, place them in bold. If the topic was demoted, put "`Demoted.`"
Title
		This should be the name of the featured topic, and is used for categorisation.
Current Status
	`current`	Featured topic or good topic
	`former`	Former featured topic

Examples

Still confused? Good examples include this, this, this and this.

The above documentation is transcluded from Template:Topic talk/doc.
Editors can experiment in this template's sandbox and testcases pages.
Add categories to the /doc subpage. Subpages of this template.