This is a maintenance category, used for maintenance of the Wikipedia project. It is not part of the encyclopedia and contains non-article pages, or groups articles by status rather than subject. Do not include this category in content categories. This is a hidden category. It is not shown on its member pages, unless the corresponding user preference (Appearance → Show hidden categories) is set.

This category (including subcategories) is meant to contain pages in Wikipedia's portal namespace. It should not be used to categorize articles or pages in other namespaces.

If this category has 50 items or more, it will be reported as a backlog. (recount)

To add a portal to this category, use the following code:

[[Category:Portals needing attention|((PAGENAME))]]

The templates ((Random portal component)) and ((Random portal component with nominate)) add this category when they discover that the chosen subpage is missing.