Template:Outdated

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This template can be used to mark articles or sections containing information that is no longer applicable, relevant, or otherwise no longer correct. Editors are encouraged to regularly browse the list of outdated articles, and update the information therein.

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This template is outdated as of Stardate 42761. Resistance is futile. Further information might be found in the corresponding discussion. Please remove this notice once the information has been updated.

Usage

It is simply sufficient to include this template with no other information inside an outdated section or article. The following example will produce a very simple notice:

{{Outdated}}

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This article or section is outdated. Further information might be found in the corresponding discussion. Please remove this notice once the information has been updated.

However, you are encouraged to, at the very least, provide the current month and date in order to keep track of how outdated a piece of information is; the month and year should suffice:

{{Outdated|date=July 2029}}

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This article or section is outdated as of July 2029. Further information might be found in the corresponding discussion. Please remove this notice once the information has been updated.

You are also encouraged to provide a reason for why a piece of information is outdated. For example, this section would be outdated because the syntax is not supported in the new version of MediaWiki:

{{Outdated|reason=The syntax is no longer supported in new versions of MediaWiki.}}

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This article or section is outdated. The syntax is no longer supported in new versions of MediaWiki. Further information might be found in the corresponding discussion. Please remove this notice once the information has been updated.

Finally, it might be that only a specific section, or a specific element of an article, is outdated. You can specify the scope of the outdated information:

{{Outdated|scope=block of code}}

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This block of code is outdated. Further information might be found in the corresponding discussion. Please remove this notice once the information has been updated.

Discussion link

Note: The talk page is linked through an external link: this is to avoid polluting Special:WantedPages when the talk page does not exist.

You can modify the notice's discussion link. For example, if you create a relevant section called No longer the case on a page's Talk page, you can link it so:

{{Outdated|talk=Talk:Example/No longer the case}}

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This article or section is outdated. Further information might be found in the corresponding discussion. Please remove this notice once the information has been updated.