Template talk:Inuse

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The Inuse template messages are placed at the top of a page you are interested in reserving for an extended period of time. The tag is intended to inform people that someone is currently working on the article, thereby reducing edit conflicts.

To use, just add {{inuse}} at the top of the article you want to work on. If you want to reserve it for a specific length of time and optionally, a message, use {{inusefor}} . Please remember to remove the Inuse note as soon as you're finished editing.

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{{inuse}}
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This article is actively undergoing a major edit.
As a courtesy, please do not edit this article while this message is displayed. The person who added this notice will be listed in its edit history should you wish to contact him or her.


{{Inusefor|time (message)}}
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{{Inusefor|5 minutes}}

This article is actively undergoing a major edit for 5 minutes.
As a courtesy, please do not make edits to this article while this message is displayed in order to avoid edit conflicts. If you need to know who is working on the article and when the edit session began, please check the edit history.

{{Inusefor|30 minutes to fix the information in the History section}}

This article is actively undergoing a major edit for 30 minutes to fix the information in the History section.
As a courtesy, please do not make edits to this article while this message is displayed in order to avoid edit conflicts. If you need to know who is working on the article and when the edit session began, please check the edit history.

{{Inuseuntil|time (message)}}
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{{inuseuntil|July 15}}

This article is reserved for a major edit until July 15.
As a courtesy, please do not make edits to this article while this message is displayed in order to avoid edit conflicts. If you need to know who is working on the article, please check the edit history.

{{inuseuntil|The [[#History|History]] section is fixed}}

This article is reserved for a major edit until The History section is fixed.
As a courtesy, please do not make edits to this article while this message is displayed in order to avoid edit conflicts. If you need to know who is working on the article, please check the edit history.

How long is this meant for?

Some of the articles marked with this template haven't been touched in over a month. I'm not a big fan of reserving an article for only one person's edits if they are not actively trying to do major edits and feel that a month without an edit should be sufficient to question the use of the template. --Guppymomma 12:00, 14 August 2006 (PDT)

I have the same reservations with regard to these templates. IMO, they should only be used for a few hours at a time, at most. Any further document-building and experimentation can be donei n a user-namespace sandbox until the page is ready for primetime. --AtteSmythe 12:58, 14 August 2006 (PDT)
Agreed. --Barrister 00:11, 15 August 2006 (PDT)
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