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I have now made a new version of the template in the sandbox which adds , in addition to a stub category
if either |stub=
is set to yes or the template has a stub template. I have also looked at tools using the alternative category tree for ((uncategorized stub)) and couldn't find any, there seems to be some using the template though, but that shouldn't be a problem since they will still work with a redirect. Bearcat is there anything I've missed? ‑‑Trialpears (talk) 10:56, 3 February 2020 (UTC)
Greetings and felicitations. The current recommendation is that this template be placed at the bottom of articles. However, this contradicts MOS:SECTIONORDER (and MOS:LEADELEMENTS), which state that cleanup templates belong at the top of an article.
1. Before the lead section[...]
- 3. Maintenance / dispute tags
The bottom of article is where editors look for categories, but it is not where most of us look for article-wide cleanup templates. Placing this cleanup template at the bottom of articles also buries it where it won't be seen, especially in longer articles and narrower browser windows. Please, let us change the placement to be in line with the MOS and logic. —DocWatson42 (talk) 06:49, 10 February 2020 (UTC)
The placement of ((improve categories)) and ((uncategorised)) is the subject of an RfC at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Layout#RfC: Category maintenance templates in MOS:ORDER. Options suggested include specifying that they should go at the bottom below stubs, or below categories but above stubs, or not be mentioned (ie by implication go with the other maintenance templates near the top). PamD 09:22, 28 February 2022 (UTC)
There seems to be something odd about the way this template ends up being worded when transcluded into an article. I added it to Miroglyph—a newly created uncategorized article—and the wording of the template is given as
This has not been added to any content categories. Please help out by adding categories to it so that it can be listed with similar s.
in which the final word seems to have be left out except for the letter "s". Of course, it's quite possible that I added the template incorrectly, but the same thing is seen in other instances of the template's use in other articles (e.g. Rajula Tallavalasa, Precision diagnostics, Semistable reduction theorem). The last word could "articles" or "ones", but it should be something more that "___s". -- Marchjuly (talk) 21:13, 24 June 2022 (UTC)
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Please revert the changes in Special:Diff/1094667280 (i.e., ((NAMESPACE)) should be changed back to ((pagetype|subjectspace=yes)) and the capitalized "Category" in the "#ifeq" statement should be changed back to the lowercase form "category"). Those changes are causing the error in articles reported above. GeoffreyT2000 (talk) 23:57, 28 June 2022 (UTC)
It would be helpful for searching for uncategorized pages. Abdullah raji (talk) 16:15, 2 November 2023 (UTC)