Documentation
Overview
This page lists templates which AWB should automatically add |date=
to in the en-wiki main and category namespaces , as part of AWB general fixes.
The rule list is loaded live each time AWB is run (with general fixes enabled).
Before adding a rule here, you must ensure that the template needs and supports |date=
.
AWB will add the current date in Month YYYY
format (i.e. June 2024
) by substituting {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} and {{CURRENTYEAR}}.
These rules do not work on article talk pages.
Rule format
Notes
The template names are first-letter case insensitive, e.g. {{ Citation needed }} and {{ citation needed }} are treated as identical.
The first-letter case of the template is kept in the new template name.
Rules in nowiki or HTML comment tags are ignored.
There should only be one rule per actual template.
The order of the rules does not matter but alphabetisation helps find things on the page.
Keeping this page neat and organised does not affect the functioning, but it will aid navigation and readability.
Since the template dating is carried out as part of AWB's general fixes, commented out template calls, or those within nowiki/pre/math tags etc. will not be renamed.
AWB does not validate the templates used to ensure that the templates or redirects exist.
Examples
Mainspace rules
{{ 1911 POV }}
{{ ASF }}
{{ Abbreviations }}
{{ Advert }}
{{ Afd-merge from }} , {{ Afd-merge to }}
{{ Album ratings prose }}
{{ All plot }}
{{ Ambiguous link }}
{{ American English }}
{{ Attribution needed }}
{{ Australian English }}
{{ BLP IMDB refimprove }}
{{ BLP IMDB-only refimprove }}
{{ BLP sources }}
{{ BLP unsourced section }}
{{ BLP unsourced }}
{{ Better source }}
{{ Biased }}
{{ Bible primary }}
{{ Bio-coatrack }}
{{ Bio-context }}
{{ Booster }}
{{ British English Oxford spelling }} , {{ British English }}
{{ By whom }}
{{ COI source }}
{{ COI-check }}
{{ COI }}
{{ CU }}
{{ Canadian English }}
{{ Capitalization }}
{{ Cat improve }}
{{ Categorisation of people disputed }}
{{ Categorise }} , {{ Categorize }}
{{ Category needed }}
{{ Catholic-cleanup }}
{{ Catneeded }}
{{ Chemformula }}
{{ Chemical-importance }}
{{ Circular-ref }}
{{ Citation broken }}
{{ Citation needed (lead) }}
{{ Citation needed }}
{{ Citation style }}
{{ Citations broken }}
{{ Citations missing }}
{{ Cite check }}
{{ Cite plot points }}
{{ Cite quote }}
{{ Cite sources }}
{{ Cite source }}
{{ Cite-section }}
{{ Clarify-section }}
{{ Clarify }}
{{ Clean up }}
{{ Cleanup FJ biography }}
{{ Cleanup split }}
{{ Cleanup-afd }}
{{ Cleanup-article }}
{{ Cleanup-because }}
{{ Cleanup-book }}
{{ Cleanup-chartable }}
{{ Cleanup-comics }}
{{ Cleanup-copyedit }}
{{ Cleanup-english }}
{{ Cleanup-images }}
{{ Cleanup-jargon }}
{{ Cleanup-laundry }}
{{ Cleanup-link rot }}
{{ Cleanup-list }}
{{ Cleanup-reason }}
{{ Cleanup-remainder }}
{{ Cleanup-reorganize }}
{{ Cleanup-rewrite }}
{{ Cleanup-school }}
{{ Cleanup-section }}
{{ Cleanup-spam }}
{{ Cleanup-table }}
{{ Cleanup-tracklist }}
{{ Cleanup-trivia }}
{{ Cleanup-university }}
{{ Cleanup }}
{{ Close paraphrase }}
{{ Close paraphrasing }}
{{ Coat rack }}
{{ Colloquial }}
{{ Comics-in-universe }}
{{ Common sense }}
{{ Condense }}
{{ Conflated }}
{{ Conflict of interest }}
{{ Confusing section }}
{{ Confusing }}
{{ Contact information }}
{{ Content }}
{{ Context-inline }}
{{ Context }}
{{ Contradict-inline }}
{{ Contradict-other-multiple }}
{{ Contradict-other }}
{{ Contradiction-inline }}
{{ Contradict }}
{{ Copy edit-section }}
{{ Copy edit }}
{{ Copy to Wikimedia Commons }}
{{ Copypaste }}
{{ Cr odc table footer }}
{{ Cr table footer }}
{{ Create-list }}
{{ Criticism section }}
{{ Criticism title }}
{{ Criticism }}
{{ Crystal }}
{{ Current disaster }}
{{ Current election }}
{{ Current person }}
{{ Current related }}
{{ Current section }}
{{ Current spaceflight }}
{{ Current sport }}
{{ Current-related }}
{{ Current-section }}
{{ Current }}
{{ DEP }} , {{ Deadend }} , {{ Dead end }}
{{ Dead link header }}
{{ Dl }} , {{ Deadlink }} , {{ Dead links }} , {{ Dead link }}
{{ Definition }}
{{ Description missing }}
{{ Disambig-cleanup }}
{{ Disputeabout }}
{{ Disputed chem }}
{{ Disputed diagram }}
{{ Disputed title }}
{{ Disputed-category }}
{{ Disputed-inline }}
{{ Disputed-list }}
{{ Disputed-section }}
{{ Disputed }}
{{ Dubious }}
{{ Editorializing? }} , {{ Editorializing }}
{{ Editorial }}
{{ Elucidate }}
{{ Empty section }}
{{ Episode }}
{{ Essay-like }}
{{ Essay-opinion }}
{{ Essay }}
{{ Example farm }}
{{ Examples }}
{{ Expand Afrikaans }} , {{ Expand Albanian }} , {{ Expand Alemannic }} , {{ Expand Arabic }} , {{ Expand Aragonese }} , {{ Expand Asturian }} , {{ Expand Azerbaijani }} , {{ Expand Basque }} , {{ Expand Bavarian }} , {{ Expand Belarusian (Tarashkevitsa) }} , {{ Expand Belarusian }} , {{ Expand Bengali }} , {{ Expand Bishnupriya Manipuri }} , {{ Expand Bosnian }} , {{ Expand Breton }} , {{ Expand Bulgarian }} , {{ Expand Cantonese }} , {{ Expand Catalan }} , {{ Expand Cebuano }} , {{ Expand Chinese }} , {{ Expand Corsican }} , {{ Expand Crimean Tatar }} , {{ Expand Croatian }} , {{ Expand Czech }} , {{ Expand Danish }} , {{ Expand Dutch }} , {{ Expand Egyptian Arabic }} , {{ Expand Esperanto }} , {{ Expand Estonian }} , {{ Expand Faroese }} , {{ Expand Finnish }} , {{ Expand French }} , {{ Expand Frisian }} , {{ Expand Galician }} , {{ Expand Georgian }} , {{ Expand German }} , {{ Expand Greek }} , {{ Expand Haitian Creole }} , {{ Expand Hebrew }} , {{ Expand Hindi }} , {{ Expand Hungarian }} , {{ Expand Icelandic }} , {{ Expand Ido }} , {{ Expand Indonesian }} , {{ Expand Italian }} , {{ Expand Japanese }} , {{ Expand Javanese }} , {{ Expand Kannada }} , {{ Expand Kazakh }} , {{ Expand Khmer }} , {{ Expand Korean }} , {{ Expand Kurdish }} , {{ Expand Latin }} , {{ Expand Latvian }} , {{ Expand Lithuanian }} , {{ Expand Luxembourgish }} , {{ Expand Macedonian }} , {{ Expand Malay }} , {{ Expand Maltese }} , {{ Expand Marathi }} , {{ Expand Neapolitan }} , {{ Expand Norwegian (Nynorsk) }} , {{ Expand Norwegian }} , {{ Expand Papiamento }} , {{ Expand Persian }} , {{ Expand Polish }} , {{ Expand Portuguese }} , {{ Expand Quechua }} , {{ Expand Romanian }} , {{ Expand Russian }} , {{ Expand Samogitian }} , {{ Expand Sardinian }} , {{ Expand Serbian }} , {{ Expand Serbo-Croatian }} , {{ Expand Sicilian }} , {{ Expand Sinhalese }} , {{ Expand Slovak }} , {{ Expand Slovene }} , {{ Expand Slovenian }} , {{ Expand Spanish }} , {{ Expand Swedish }} , {{ Expand Tagalog }} , {{ Expand Tamil }} , {{ Expand Tatar }} , {{ Expand Telugu }} , {{ Expand Thai }} , {{ Expand Tongan }} , {{ Expand Turkish }} , {{ Expand Ukrainian }} , {{ Expand Urdu }} , {{ Expand Uzbek }} , {{ Expand Vietnamese }} , {{ Expand Walloon }} , {{ Expand Welsh }}
{{ Expand language }}
{{ Expand list }}
{{ Expand section }} , {{ Expand-section }}
{{ Expand }}
{{ Expert-portal }}
{{ Expert-subject-multiple }}
{{ Expert-subject }}
{{ Expert-verify }}
{{ Expert }}
{{ External links }}
{{ Fact2 }}
{{ Failed verification }}
{{ Fanpov }}
{{ Fansite }}
{{ Fb cl footer }}
{{ Fb cm footer }}
{{ Fb cs footer }}
{{ Fb disc footer }}
{{ Fb in footer }}
{{ Fb injured }}
{{ Fb kit footer }}
{{ Fb lo footer }}
{{ Fb match footer }}
{{ Fb match221 footer }}
{{ Fb match }}
{{ Fb mfs footer }}
{{ Fb oi footer }}
{{ Fb out footer }}
{{ Fb out2 footer }}
{{ Fb ps footer }}
{{ Fb r footer }}
{{ Fb rbr footer }}
{{ Fb rbr pos footer }}
{{ Fb rs footer }}
{{ Fb sf footer }}
{{ Fb si footer }}
{{ Fb si4 footer }}
{{ Fb ss footer }}
{{ Fb ssx footer }}
{{ Fbc rbr pos footer }}
{{ Fiction }}
{{ Formula missing descriptions }}
{{ Further reading cleanup }}
{{ Game guide }}
{{ Gamecleanup }}
{{ Gcheck }}
{{ Generalize-section }}
{{ Generalize }}
{{ Globalize/Australia }} , {{ Globalize/Belgium }} , {{ Globalize/Canada }} , {{ Globalize/China }} , {{ Globalize/Common law }} , {{ Globalize/Eng }} , {{ Globalize/Europe }} , {{ Globalize/France }} , {{ Globalize/Germany }} , {{ Globalize/Greece }} , {{ Globalize/India }} , {{ Globalize/Netherlands }} , {{ Globalize/North America }} , {{ Globalize/Northern }} , {{ Globalize/Pakistan }} , {{ Globalize/Southern }} , {{ Globalize/UK and Canada }} , {{ Globalize/UK }} , {{ Globalize/USA }} , {{ Globalize/West }} , {{ Globalize }}
{{ Grammar check }}
{{ Hiberno-English }}
{{ How to }}
{{ Howto }}
{{ ISBN }}
{{ Ibid }}
{{ Imagefact }}
{{ Images needed }}
{{ Importance-section }}
{{ In popular culture }}
{{ In-universe/Anime and manga }}
{{ In-universe/Comics }}
{{ In-universe/Discworld }}
{{ In-universe/Dungeons & Dragons }}
{{ In-universe/Film }}
{{ In-universe/Literature }}
{{ In-universe/Sopranos }}
{{ In-universe/Star Trek }}
{{ In-universe/Star Wars }}
{{ In-universe/Television }}
{{ In-universe/Three Kingdoms }}
{{ In-universe/Tolkien }}
{{ In-universe/Transformers }}
{{ In-universe/Video game }}
{{ In-universe/Warhammer 40,000 }}
{{ In-universe }}
{{ Inappropriate person }}
{{ Inappropriate title }}
{{ Inappropriate tone }}
{{ Incoherent }}
{{ Incomplete table }}
{{ Incomplete }}
{{ Indian English }}
{{ Indian cinema under construction }}
{{ Infobox German state }}
{{ Infobox OS version }}
{{ Infobox Russian district }}
{{ Infobox Russian federal subject2 }}
{{ Infobox Russian inhabited locality }}
{{ Inline relevance }}
{{ Internal links }}
{{ Intro missing }}
{{ Intro-missing }}
{{ Issue }}
{{ Law unref }}
{{ Lead missing }}
{{ Lead rewrite }}
{{ Lead section }}
{{ Lead too long }}
{{ Lead too short }}
{{ Leadsection }}
{{ Like resume }}
{{ Linkage }}
{{ List fact }}
{{ List years }}
{{ Listtable }}
{{ Lonely }}
{{ Longish }}
{{ Lopsided }}
{{ ME-fact }}
{{ ME-importance }}
{{ MEDRS }}
{{ MOS }}
{{ MTG pth footer }}
{{ MW 1935 }}
{{ Magazine }}
{{ Manual }}
{{ Merge FJC }}
{{ Merge disputed }}
{{ Merge from }}
{{ Merge school }}
{{ Merge to }}
{{ Merge }}
{{ Merging from }}
{{ Merging }}
{{ Missing information non-contentious }}
{{ Missing information }}
{{ Missingintro }}
{{ Missing }}
{{ Mission }}
{{ More footnotes }}
{{ Move portions from }}
{{ Move portions }}
{{ Move section }}
{{ No definition }}
{{ NPOV language }}
{{ Need consensus }}
{{ Needs references }}
{{ Needs table }}
{{ New Zealand English }}
{{ New unreviewed article }}
{{ News release }}
{{ New }}
{{ No footnotes }}
{{ No geolocation }}
{{ No lead section }}
{{ No lead }}
{{ No references }}
{{ No reference }}
{{ No sources }}
{{ No-intro }}
{{ Nocats }}
{{ Nocat }}
{{ Nointroduction }}
{{ Nointro }}
{{ Nolead }}
{{ Nonspecific }}
{{ Not verified }}
{{ Notability }}
{{ Notability }} , {{ notability }}
{{ Obituary }}
{{ Off-topic? }}
{{ Off-topic }}
{{ Oldfact }}
{{ One source }}
{{ Opening }}
{{ Opinion }}
{{ Original research-section }}
{{ Original research }}
{{ Orphan }}
{{ Or }}
{{ Out of date }}
{{ Over detailed }}
{{ PD-self }}
{{ POV assertion }}
{{ POV-check-section }}
{{ POV-check }}
{{ POV-lead }}
{{ POV-map }}
{{ POV-section }}
{{ POV-statement }}
{{ POV-title-section }}
{{ POV-title }}
{{ POV }}
{{ Page needed }}
{{ Page numbers improve }}
{{ Page numbers needed }}
{{ Pakistani English }}
{{ Pd-user }}
{{ Peacock term }}
{{ Peacock }}
{{ Plot }}
{{ Poor English }}
{{ Primary source claim }}
{{ Primarysource }} , {{ Primary source }} , {{ Primary sources }} , {{ Primarysources }} , {{ Primary Sources }} , {{ PrimarySources }} , {{ Reliablesources }} , {{ Reliable sources }}
{{ Pro and con list }}
{{ Prose }}
{{ Proveit }}
{{ Prune }}
{{ Puffery }}
{{ Quantify }}
{{ Quote farm }}
{{ Recent death }}
{{ Recentism }}
{{ Recently revised }}
{{ Ref improve section }}
{{ Reference necessary }}
{{ Refimprove }}
{{ Religion primary }}
{{ Religious text primary }}
{{ Repetition }}
{{ Request quotation }}
{{ Review }}
{{ Rewrite }}
{{ Rs }}
{{ Says who }}
{{ Science review }}
{{ Scottish English }}
{{ Season needed }}
{{ SectOR }}
{{ Section OR }}
{{ Sections }}
{{ Self-citation }}
{{ Self-published inline }}
{{ Self-published }}
{{ Selfpromotion }}
{{ Self }}
{{ Sources }}
{{ South African English }}
{{ Spacing }}
{{ Spam link }}
{{ Specific }}
{{ Specify }}
{{ Split dab }}
{{ Split sections }} , {{ Split section }}
{{ Split-apart }}
{{ Split2 }} , {{ Split }}
{{ Story }}
{{ Sub-sections }}
{{ Summarize }}
{{ Summary style }}
{{ Synthesis }}
{{ Syn }}
{{ Systemic bias }}
{{ Technical }}
{{ Term paper }}
{{ Textbook }}
{{ Tidy }}
{{ Time-context }}
{{ Tone-inline }}
{{ Too abstract }}
{{ Too few opinions }}
{{ Too long }}
{{ Too many categories }}
{{ Too many links }}
{{ Too much trivia }}
{{ Toomuchtrivia }}
{{ Transreq }}
{{ Travel guide }}
{{ Trivia section }}
{{ Trivia }}
{{ USgovtPOV }}
{{ Unbalanced section }}
{{ Unbalanced }}
{{ Uncategorised stub }} , {{ Uncategorisedstub }} , {{ Uncategorized stub }} , {{ Uncategorizedstub }} , {{ Uncatstub }}
{{ Uncategorised }} , {{ Uncategorized }} , {{ Uncat }}
{{ Uncited-article }}
{{ Uncited }}
{{ Unclear date }}
{{ Unclear section }}
{{ Undue-inline }}
{{ Undue-section }}
{{ Undue }}
{{ Unencyclopedic }}
{{ Unlinked references }}
{{ Unreferenced Kent }}
{{ Unreferenced section }}
{{ UnreferencedMED }}
{{ Unreferencedsect }}
{{ Unreferenced }}
{{ Unref }}
{{ Unreliable sources }}
{{ Unsorted }}
{{ Unsourced }}
{{ Update after }}
{{ Update }}
{{ Use British (Oxford) English }} , {{ Use British English }}
{{ Use dmy dates }} , {{ Use mdy dates }} , {{ Use ymd dates }}
{{ Userfy }}
{{ Userspace draft }}
{{ Vague }}
{{ Verbose }}
{{ Verifiability }}
{{ Verify credibility }}
{{ Verify source }}
{{ Verify spelling }}
{{ Very long }}
{{ Views needing attribution }}
{{ Volume needed }}
{{ WW }}
{{ Weasel section }}
{{ Weasel-inline }}
{{ Weasel }}
{{ Weather box }}
{{ When }}
{{ Where is it }}
{{ Which? }}
{{ Whom? }}
{{ Who }}
{{ Why? }}
{{ Wikify }} , {{ Wfy }} , {{ Wiki }} , {{ Wikify-date }} , {{ Wikify section }}
{{ Year missing }}
{{ Year needed }}
{{ You }}