Category:Tracking categories

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WikiProject template sharing common category links
Cms--	Commons
Mda--	Mediawiki
Wbk--	Wikibooks
Wpd--	Wikipedia
Mta--	Meta
Wdy--	Wiktionary
Wqt	Wikiquote
Wsr--	Wikisource
Wnw--	Wikinews
Wsp--	Wikispecies
Wvy--	Wikiversity
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This is a tracking category

A tracking category is intended to build and maintain a list of pages primarily for the sake of the list itself. Rather than being part of the encyclopedia's categorization scheme, these categories are used to track, for example, the use of syntaxes that may be deprecated in the future, to maintain a list of pages that may need to be edited en masse later, or to aggregate the members of several sub-categories by other classifications into one larger list.

Some maintenance lists need to be checked periodically for backlogs, such as Categories for discussion notices and other XfD administrative tracking categories.

A tracking category is one intended to maintain a list of pages primarily for the sake of the list itself, and is not inherently useful within a linear hierarchic categorization (one path) scheme, but serves as a 'union' (versus 'intersection') of categories, thus building a list that is useful outside such schemes.