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.
This category holds articles that use any of the short-cite templates ({{
harv}} and {{
sfn}} template families, and {{
harvc}}) where one or more of those short-cite templates do not properly link to a full citation, the target. See guidance at
Category:Harv and Sfn template errors to resolve.
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Displaying error messages
Currently, two
user scripts relatively reliably detect errors
as well as a third experimental method based on customizing a
.css page. The three methods are
Method 1 – Automatic script installation
Go in the
'Gadgets' tab of your preferences and select the 'Install scripts without having to edit JavaScript files' option at the bottom of the 'Advanced' section.
Method 3 – .css code for error messages emitted by the short-cite templates
Error messages are emitted by the various short-cite templates via
Module:Footnotes and
Module:Harvc. Because of
technical limitations, the modules can emit
false-positive error messages along with valid error messages. For this reason, no-target error messages are hidden by default. To show these hidden error messages, include the following text in your
common.css page or your specific
skin.css page: