Template:Article status

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Needs review

Some information in this article still needs to be checked for accuracy.

Status

Needs review

Last reviewed

never

Reviewer

none

Game mode

Live

Version coverage

unspecified

Source quality

unassessed

Known uncertainty

none noted

Usage

Place at the top of any gameplay-facing article. Status must be text, not colour alone — see Elite Dangerous Field Manual:Verification Policy.

The entire status panel uses the noexcerpt class so maintenance and verification information is excluded from article excerpts and Page Previews. This allows previews to begin with the article's actual introductory content rather than its verification status.

Compact maintenance-banner form (2026-08-08 second revision): the always-visible state is a short banner — a status icon, the status word itself (no mode/version appended to it), one standard sentence for that status, and a concise "Uncertain: ..." line only when |uncertainty= is actually supplied. Everything else (Reviewer, Game mode, Version coverage, Source quality, the full Known uncertainty text again for the record, and the optional Legacy differences/Recent changes/Verification notes fields) sits behind the same native mw-collapsible "View verification details" toggle as before (still core MediaWiki, still no new dependency). No parameters were removed or renamed from the previous revision — this is a rendering change only, so every existing call site upgrades automatically.

{{Article status
 |status=Verified|Partially verified|Needs review|Draft|Historical|Legacy only|Upcoming
 |mode=Live|Legacy|Both|Historical
 |version=
 |reviewed=
 |reviewer=
 |source_quality=
 |uncertainty=
 |legacy_differences= (optional)
 |recent_changes= (optional)
 |notes= (optional — extra verification detail beyond the standard fields)
}}

Keep uncertainty genuinely concise (a short list of what's uncertain, e.g. "discovery, invitation, and complete blueprint availability") — it renders directly in the banner, not just inside the details panel, so a long paragraph there defeats the point. If a claim needs a longer explanation, put that explanation in the article body (near the claim itself, using {{Unverified claim}}/{{[[Template:Estimated information|Estimated information]]}}/{{Community observation}} or a plain .edfm-inline-flag note) rather than in this template.

Status tiers (left accent + icon colour, from Template:EDFM style/styles.css): positive (cyan, restrained — Verified, Partially verified), attention (orange — Needs review, Upcoming), neutral (dim — Draft, Historical, Legacy only). Draft uses the neutral tier because an in-progress article is not a verification concern in the same way an unchecked or announced-but-unreleased article is.

|legacy_differences=, |recent_changes=, and |notes= are optional — omit them and nothing renders, using the same pattern as the other optional fields. Use legacy_differences when a fact on this article genuinely differs between Live and Legacy (routine, can apply at any status); reserve status=Legacy only itself for articles that are entirely about a Legacy-exclusive mechanic with no Live counterpart at all — see Elite Dangerous Field Manual:Verification Policy for the full distinction. status=Upcoming and status=Legacy only populate their own maintenance categories (Category:Upcoming Content, Category:Legacy-Only Content).