User:Peter Chastain/Template/In use/doc

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This is a documentation subpage for User:Peter Chastain/Template/In use.
It contains usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original user template page.
Main article: Help:Editing

Usage

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This template is for pages actively undergoing a major edit. If the page instead is actively undergoing construction, please use {{Under construction}}.

The In use is placed at the top of a page you are actively editing for a short period of time. The tag is intended to inform people that someone is currently working on the article, thereby reducing edit conflicts. Please do not leave it in place for more than the few hours at most that should be necessary, as doing so may unnecessarily discourage others from contributing to the article. If it has been up for more than two hours since the last edit, it should be removed. Specifying periods of several days or longer for this template goes against the spirit of simply avoiding edit conflicts; please only use it for sessions where you are actively editing the article.

If you wish to indicate that an article is being rebuilt over a longer period of time consider the {{Under construction}} template. That template encourages others to edit the article while indicating that it is a .

To use, just add {{User:Peter Chastain/Template/In use|time=~~~~~}} 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 {{User:Peter Chastain/Template/In use|time (message)}}. Alternatively, if only one section of the page is being edited, you may place this template at the top of that section using {{User:Peter Chastain/Template/In use|section}}. Please remember to remove the In use note as soon as you're finished editing.

Using this template will place the including article in Category:Pages actively undergoing a major edit.

Examples

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{{In use}}

 This user page is actively undergoing a major edit for a short while. To help avoid edit conflicts, please do not edit this page while this message is displayed.
This page was last revised at 14:44, 17 October 2020 (UTC). Please remove this template if this page hasn't been edited in several hours. If you are the editor who added this template, please be sure to remove it between editing sessions.

{{In use|section}}

 This section is actively undergoing a major edit for a short while. To help avoid edit conflicts, please do not edit this section while this message is displayed.
This page was last revised at 14:44, 17 October 2020 (UTC). Please remove this template if this page hasn't been edited in several hours. If you are the editor who added this template, please be sure to remove it between editing sessions.

{{In use|5 minutes}}

 This user page is actively undergoing a major edit for 5 minutes. To help avoid edit conflicts, please do not edit this page while this message is displayed.
This page was last revised at 14:44, 17 October 2020 (UTC). Please remove this template if this page hasn't been edited in several hours. If you are the editor who added this template, please be sure to remove it between editing sessions.

{{In use|30 minutes to fix the information in the History section|time=~~~~~}}

 This user page is actively undergoing a major edit for 30 minutes to fix the information in the History section. To help avoid edit conflicts, please do not edit this page while this message is displayed.
This message was added at 20:49, 27 February 2009 (UTC). This page was last revised at 14:44, 17 October 2020 (UTC). Please remove this template if this page hasn't been edited in several hours. If you are the editor who added this template, please be sure to remove it between editing sessions.

See also

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