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Guidelines

Y DO add this template to the talk pages of articles for which you have strong knowledge of the topic or its sources. DO place this template on the talk pages of articles which you have thoroughly read, understood, and checked against sources. DO make sure your user name and talk page are linked directly (no redirects) thereby making it easy to contact you. DO add the article to your watchlist. DO remove a user from the template (or the entire template, if only one user) if they haven't edited the article/talk page in several months, as long as they're not an expert or significant contributor to the article. If you do so, you might leave a message on the user's talk page.

N DO NOT place this template on non-talk pages, drafts, archives, or sandboxes. It is not appropriate for articles, user pages, categories, or category talk pages. DO NOT ignore the article. (Maintained articles should not remain in stub or start-class status – so improve them.) DO NOT place this template on the talk pages of controversial articles, especially those subject to POV wars. DO NOT use this template to imply "ownership" of an article or to suggest that others clear proposed changes with you.

• This template adds talk pages to Category:Maintained articles.

This template takes one or more wikilinked usernames as an unnamed parameter:

{{Maintained|[[User talk:SomeInvolvedUser1|SomeInvolvedUser1]]<br />[[User talk:SomeInvolvedUser2|SomeInvolvedUser2]]}}

renders as:

{{Maintained|[[User talk:SomeInvolvedUser1|SomeInvolvedUser1]]<br />[[User talk:SomeInvolvedUser2|SomeInvolvedUser2]]}}

For use on the talk pages of non-articles (such as templates and portals), add |article=no:

{{Maintained|[[User talk:SomeInvolvedUser1|SomeInvolvedUser1]]<br />[[User talk:SomeInvolvedUser2|SomeInvolvedUser2]]|article=no}}

renders as:

{{Maintained|[[User talk:SomeInvolvedUser1|SomeInvolvedUser1]]<br />[[User talk:SomeInvolvedUser2|SomeInvolvedUser2]]|article=no}}

The |small=yes parameter can be used to reduce the size of the template and move it to the right-hand side of the page like archive boxes and other templates with a small mode. It can be used with other parameters:

{{Maintained|[[User talk:SomeInvolvedUser1|SomeInvolvedUser1]]<br />[[User talk:SomeInvolvedUser2|SomeInvolvedUser2]]|article=no|small=yes}}

renders as:

{{Maintained|[[User talk:SomeInvolvedUser1|SomeInvolvedUser1]]<br />[[User talk:SomeInvolvedUser2|SomeInvolvedUser2]]|article=no|small=yes}}

• You can also use user templates instead of simple userpage links. See Template:User for more information on user templates.
• It should be decided first on the talk page of the article which user template and what other (if any) information is going to be used so that it all remains consistent. Maintain a standard format and document it in an HTML comment right under and/or over the template tag.

Create a template at User:Example/Maintenance and add to it: {{User4|Example}} or {{User0}}. Then, use the following format in the {{Maintained}} template:

{{Maintained|{{User:Example/Maintenance}}}}

• Your maintenance list is at Special:Whatlinkshere/User:Example/Maintenance.
• If you want to remove your name from all the templates, just blank your /Maintenance page.
• You can also put in a message such as "on break until March" on the /Maintenance page, so people know not to contact you.
• The template {{User4}} allows for an email link. Since every user with an account/username has a talk page at Wikipedia, the {{User4}} template is of no use to any users or viewers of the template looking at usernames who do not publish email addresses in their user preferences. The {{User0}} template links to your username and talkpage.