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This Wikipedia page has been superseded by and is retained primarily for historical reference.
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Usage

For the template for images, see Template:Superseded-image.

Specify the title of the superseding page:

{{superseded|Wikipedia:Use common sense}}

This Wikipedia page has been superseded by Wikipedia:Use common sense and is retained primarily for historical reference.

This template categorizes pages into Category:Inactive project pages

Parameters and options

To link more than one page, type the intended wording in wikified form:
     {{superseded|'''[[Wikipedia:Use common sense]]''' and '''[[Wikipedia:There's no common sense]]'''}}

This can also be used to provide more information, such as when an old essay has been replaced by something more important:
     {{superseded|the guideline '''[[Wikipedia:Fringe theories]]'''}}

This Wikipedia page has been superseded by the guideline Wikipedia:Fringe theories and is retained primarily for historical reference.

To include a shortcut, add a "shortcut" parameter.

For related Wikipedia header templates see Template messages/Project namespace.

To include the date when the page was superseded, use |date= a.k.a. |since= a.k.a. |asof= a.k.a. |last=, using any sane date format:

     {{superseded|Wikipedia:Notability|date=25 October 2008}}
or
     {{superseded|Wikipedia:Notability|since=October 2008}}
or
     {{superseded|Wikipedia:Notability|asof=October 25, 2008}}
etc. All of these examples generate:

This Wikipedia page has been superseded by Wikipedia:Notability (since October 25, 2008) and is retained primarily for historical reference.

See also

  • {{Historical}}
  • {{Superseded-Image}}
  • {{Obsolete}} – for media files
  • {{Deprecated}} – for templates
  • Wikipedia:Template messages/Wikipedia namespace for a listing of Wikipedia namespace banners.
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