It is used to build and maintain lists of pages—primarily for the sake of the lists themselves and their use in article and category maintenance. It is not part of the encyclopedia's categorization scheme.
These categories are used to track, build and organize lists of pages needing "attention en masse" (for example, pages using deprecated syntax), or that may need to be edited at someone's earliest convenience.
These categories also serve to aggregate members of several lists or sub-categories into a larger, more efficient list (discriminated by classifications).
Typically, tracking categories are automatically populated by templates invoked in pages or by the MediaWiki software (see
Special:TrackingCategories for an overview of the latter).
Administrators: Please do not delete this category as empty! This category may be empty occasionally or even most of the time.
Notes
This category is populated by articles transcluding {{
Infobox person}} with potentially multiple people after the | spouse = parameter.
The template code contains logic to dynamically change the label to appropriately display "Spouse" if only one person is listed or "Spouses" if multiple people are listed in any of the typical list templates (e.g. a
Plainlist or
Unbulleted list).
If the template logic cannot definitively determine a singular or plural set, it will display as "Spouse(s)" to remain neutral if it is not clear.
The template logic may assume a comma is separating two distinct people, but the comma may be part of that person's legal name (e.g., some people use a comma before a Jr. or Sr. suffix: "Alex Aardvark, Jr.").
A workaround to force the template to recognize the singular person is to add {{
Force singular}} after the name/argument.
Examples
Expand the section below for examples on improved formatting of ambiguous plurals.
Examples of resolving ambiguous plurals
Description
Wikitext
Displays as
Plural 1
Plain text names separated by a comma
Ambiguous Plural:
|spouse = Alex Aardvark, Bennie Baracuda
Subject
Spouse(s)
Alex Aardvark, Bennie Baracuda
✓Definite Plural:
|spouse = {{plainlist|
* Alex Aardvark,
* Bennie Baracuda
}}
Subject
Spouses
Alex Aardvark
Bennie Baracuda
Plural 2
Plain text name and Template:Marriage usage, separated by <br> tag.