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Overview. Maintenance templates (or "tags") are not removed automatically. Even if you fix the issue (s) described in a maintenance template, the tag will remain in the article until you or someone else manually removes it.
This talk page is for comments or discussion on how to improve the Help:Maintenance template removal page. Please note there is no policy or guideline page associated with this subject - please ask where to raise issues related to the policy or guideline consensus reflected herein.
Maybe rename the page and relay the focus a bit from 'how to remove a template' to 'how to address this issue that someone flagged'. Or split it? Make the 'more help needed' more specific. Give them one first option. If that doesn't work, they can try other things.
1) It is not okay to remove maintenance templates until the issue flagged by the template is remedied first—that is, only once the maintenance tag is no longer valid, unless it truly did not belong in the first place. 2) Making sure that the issue has been fixed is the condition you need to fulfill before removing the template.
Help:Maintenance template removal - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Help:Maintenance template removal. en:Help:Maintenance template removal This page is a soft redirect. Category: Wikipedia soft redirects.
7 mei 2024 · You may have arrived at this help page after clicking a link on a maintenance template saying "Learn how and when to remove this template message". Maintenance templates are added and removed by volunteers. This help page explains the process for examining and removing such templates.
Template:Wikipedia how to Template:Nutshell Legitimate Wikipedia editors will never offer to remove maintenance templates in exchange for money. See the paid editing scam warning for more information.
