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-The Portal Wiki employs '''Maintenance Templates''' to mark articles that need work and/or staff attention.  We encourage any contributor to make use of these maintenance templates, as it makes collaborative editing much easier to coordinate.
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-You can see a full list of Maintenance templates here: [[:Category:Maintenance templates]], clicking on a template's page will show you the template, and should have documentation explaining how to use it.
+The Portal Wiki employs '''maintenance templates''' to mark articles that need editor attention. We encourage any contributor to make use of these maintenance templates, as it makes collaborative editing much easier to coordinate.
-== Commonly used Maintenance templates ==
+To place a maintenance template on a page, copy one of the codes below to the beginning of the article.
-You can view the full list above, however here is an additional list showing the most commonly used ones - that we encourage use of.
-*[[:Template:Cleanup]]
-*[[:Template:Delete]]
-*[[:Template:Expandlist]]
-*[[:Template:Improveimage]]
-*[[:Template:Merge]]
-*[[:Template:Move]]
-*[[:Template:Needimage]]
-*[[:Template:Needspoiler]]
-*[[:Template:Recent addition]]
-*[[:Template:Rewrite]]
-*[[:Template:Split]]
-*[[:Template:Stub]]
+== Common maintenance templates ==
+{{see also|Category:Maintenance templates|l1=Full list of maintenance templates}}
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+For more information on the templates, see the documentation on their individual pages.
+=== Article status ===
+These templates inform other editors about the article's state.
+* {{tl|Stub}}
+* {{tl|Recent addition}}
+=== Request action ===
+The following templates can be used to request assistance from other editors.
+==== Page content ====
+* {{tl|Cleanup}}
+* {{tl|Rewrite}}
+* {{tl|Correction}}
+* {{tl|Update}}
+* {{tl|Needimage|Instructions for the needed image}}
+* {{tl|Needspoiler}}
+* {{tl|Expandlist}}
+==== File content ====
+* {{tlx|Improveimage|Notes for improvement}}
+==== Page organization ====
+* {{tlx|Delete|Reason for deletion}}
+* {{tlx|Move|Proposed target title}}
+* {{tlx|Merge|Proposed merger target}}
+* {{tl|Split}}
+==== Localization ====
+* {{tl|Update trans}}
+* {{tl|Retranslate}}
+==== Other ====
+* {{tl|Purge}}