User:AnomieBOT/Dating rules

This page lists templates that AnomieBOT should add dates to, in much the same way that Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Dated templates lists templates for AWB. For that matter, AnomieBOT uses Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Dated templates too; this page is just for more complicated situations.

Format

Each line begins with a *, then the template linked using {{tl}}, then a specification of parameters using the {{para}} template.
To specify parameters that are required, say with and then the list of parameter templates (all must be present); to specify parameters that are required to be absent, say without (all must be absent). If both with and without are needed, specify with first and then without.
If only certain values of the parameter should be matched, use the second parameter of {{para}}. Different options may be separated with /; a run of multiple characters may be specified with *.
To specify that a parameter other than |date= is to be dated, say date parameter followed by the parameter (in the {{para}} template).
If the template accepts dates in unnamed parameters 1–5, these may confuse the bot. To ignore them entirely, use ignore followed by the parameter (in the {{para}} template). To use them to try to determine the maintenance date but refrain from deleting them as bogus, use keep followed by the parameter (in the {{para}} template)

Examples

 * {{tl|rp}} with {{para|needed}}
 * {{tl|Weather box}} without {{para|source}} {{para|source1}}
 * {{tl|orphan}} with {{para|att}} date parameter {{para|att}}

The first line will only date {{rp}} when |needed= is given; the second will only date {{Weather box}} when both |source= and |source1= are absent. The third will effectively validate the date in |att=, since it will date that parameter (instead of {{date}}) only when it is already present.

Rules

{{rp}} with |needed=
{{Weather box}} without |source= |source 1=
{{orphan}} with |att= date parameter |att=
{{orphan}} without |att=
{{update}} ignore |2=
{{afd-merge to}} without |3=
{{afd-merge from}} keep |3=
{{afd-merge required}} keep |3=
{{complete list}} keep |1=
{{clarify span}} ignore |1=