User:Rick Block/update after
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This template is used for marking places in Wikipedia entries which need to be updated later. For a list of all articles using this template, see [What links here]. Lists by year and by month can be found by checking the what links here link for Wikipedia:Updating information/2008 (and similar for other years) or Wikipedia:Updating information/2008/11 (and similar for other months) articles. Articles in need of updating are added to categories the next time they're edited when the update is indicated to be needed.
See also Template:Review.
To use, simply put {{Update after|year|month|day}} after the item which should be updated, much as you would a footnote. The template should follow any footnote marks or similar stuff and be adjacent to white space. Year should be replaced by the 4-digit year in which the item should be updated and must be included. A month number (1-12) and day number are optional parameters, so the date can be just a year, or a year and a month, or a specific day.
This template is intended as a replacement for the As of technique, which violates Wikipedia convention by linking text to administrative material.
For discussion:
- Need to also create a "Review xxxx" template.
- A marker is currently inserted in the text, so that editors can see that it's already marked, and will know where to look to find the area which needs review or updating. Might want to make marker visible only to editors (people signed in), if possible. This can be done if there's a magic word for the userID. If the date is current, the marker is replaced by "update needed".
- Once tested and seems to do what is intended, need to see about updating the As of pages to announce this, and deprecate the use of As of.
Discussion is at Wikipedia talk:As of#Template:Update nnnn
