Template:Expire

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{{{expText}}}

Contents 1 Location 2 Usage 3 Examples 4 Status

[edit] Location

This template can be used anywhere that you want to add templates or other important text, but you want it to automatically be removed at a certain time (e.g., {{pp-semi-protected}} when semi-protection has expired). The text will automatically become invisible at that time, and a robot (currently ExpireBot) will be by to remove the template when the time comes around.

[edit] Usage

{{Expire
|expText=Some text that you want to autoexpire
|expDate=date stamp you want it to expire at, in utc
}}

This template must be transcluded (that is, do not use "subst:"). If you subst: this template, it will work, the text will appear as normal, but the bot will not know that it needs to be expired, so it won't automatically be removed.

[edit] Examples

Automatically remove {{Current}}, the current event tag:

{{Expire
|expText={{Current}}
|expDate=15 January 2010
}}

Automatically remove {{pp-semi-protected}}, the semi-protection notice, after it expires:

{{Expire
|expText={{pp-semi-protected}}
|expDate=January 11, 2008 18:12
}}

[edit] Status

The bot is currently not active yet, so none of this will work. Please see User:ExpireBot for development information.