Template:Cleanup tense
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This template will categorise tagged articles into Category:Wikipedia articles with incorrect tenses and Category:Wikipedia articles needing copy edit.
- This template is a self-reference.
- You can also place this tag at the start of the concerned section and adjust its text accordingly, such as:
{{Cleanup tense|section}}
- It takes the optional parameter
|tense=
which can be used to explain what specific tense needs to be used, e.g.|tense=the past tense
. The default value is "the past tense if historic, present tense if not time-based (e.g. fiction), or future tense if upcoming". The value of|tense=
should complete the sentence "Please consider copy editing to use parameter value goes here." - It takes the optional parameter date, with the format date=month year, such as:
{{Cleanup tense|date=August 2024}}
- Please do not subst: this template.
See also
The above documentation is transcluded from Template:Cleanup tense/doc. (edit | history)
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Add categories to the /doc subpage. Subpages of this template.