Template:Article status
Usage
Place at the top of any gameplay-facing article. Status must be text, not colour alone — see Elite Dangerous Field Manual:Verification Policy.
Compact maintenance-banner form (2026-08-08 second revision): the
always-visible state is now 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 now 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 moved from the attention tier to the neutral tier in this revision: an in-progress article isn't a verification concern in the same way an unchecked or announced-but-unreleased one is.
|legacy_differences=, |recent_changes=, and
|notes= are optional — omit them and nothing renders, same
pattern as every other optional field here. 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).