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.
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).