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Wiktionary:Maintenance templates

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Page templates

Our maintenance templates in approximate order of descending severity, while some of these templates mention "project page" this will be replaced with the appropriate text for the type of page it is on using {{pagetype}}.

Page may be deleted
{{ delete }}
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Speedy deletion This project page has been marked for speedy deletion.
If you think it should be kept or discussed, then please replace this notice with {{rfd}} or {{rfv}} (as appropriate) and start a discussion at Wiktionary:Requests for deletion/Others or Wiktionary:Requests for verification to contest the deletion.
{{ rfd }}
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Delete A user has added this project page to requests for deletion(+).
Please see that page for discussion and justifications. You may continue to edit this project page while the discussion proceeds, but please mention significant edits at the RFD discussion and ensure that the intention of votes already cast is not left unclear. Do not remove the {{rfd}} until the debate has finished.
Page will be deleted if not rescued
{{ rfv }}
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Verify A user has added this project page to requests for verification(+)
If it cannot be verified that this term meets our attestation criteria, it will be deleted. Feel free to edit this project page as normal, but do not remove {{rfv}} until the request has been resolved.
{{ derogatory }}
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A user has marked this entry, or one or more of its senses, for deletion as derogatory pursuant to WT:DEROGATORY.
The entry, or challenged sense(s), must have at least three quotations meeting the attestation requirements within two weeks of the entry being created, that is, by 29 December 2025. Otherwise, it may be speedily deleted after that period.

An editor may nominate this entry or the challenged sense(s) for deletion or verification by editing it to apply the template {{rfd}}, {{rfd-sense}}, {{rfv}}, or {{rfv-sense}} as appropriate. If the entry does not have at least three quotations meeting the attestation requirements within two weeks of the nomination date, the entry may also be speedily deleted.

Page needs work
{{ rfc }}
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A user suggests that this English project page be cleaned up.
Please see the discussion on Requests for cleanup(+) or the talk page for more information and remove this template after the problem has been dealt with.
Page could be improved
{{ tea room }}
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The Tea room(+) is discussing this project page at the moment.
Please come along and share your opinions on this and the other topics being discussed there.
{{ rfdef }}
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This term needs a definition. Please help out and add a definition, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
{{ rfap }}
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Request for audio pronunciation This project page needs an audio pronunciation. If you are a native speaker with a microphone, please record this word. The recorded pronunciation will appear here when it's ready.
{{ rfp }}
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This project page needs pronunciation information. If you are familiar with the IPA or enPR then please add some!
{{ rfe }}
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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
{{ rfi }}
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Request for image This entry needs a photograph or drawing for illustration. Please try to find a suitable image on Wikimedia Commons or upload one there yourself!
{{ rfquote }}
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Request for quotations This project page needs quotations to illustrate usage. If you come across any interesting, durably archived quotes, then please add them!
{{ rfinfl }}
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This entry needs an inflection-table template.

{{ rfex }}
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(Can we add an example for this sense? )
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(Is there an English equivalent to this definition?)
Page needs checking
{{ Webster 1913 }}
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for Maintenance templates”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

{{ attention }}
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