Warhammer 40k - Lexicanum:Quarantine

ATTENTION: Please do note that quarantining content is a decision that should not be taking lightly as it might do serious damage to the readability of articles. Therefore quarantining should be reserved for historic cases (i.e. content added before 01 August 2024) in which the unsourced/ insufficiently sourced content suspiciously looks like for example fan-made content (e.g. a romance between an Imperial assassin and an Eldar farseer), false or otherwise highly dubious information. If in doubt, discuss the issue with fellow editors, Administrators or Bureaucrats. For all other cases of unsourced/ insufficiently sourced content please do not remove the content in question but mark it as explained [[here.

What is quarantining and why is it sometimes applied?

Articles can unfortunately sometimes include information (e.g. text or images) that is either completely unsourced or insufficiently sourced, see Help:Citation for a more exhaustive overview on proper and improper citation practices. If such material and content was added to articles before 01 August 2024 it can be put into Quarantine, i.e. be temporarily removed due to insufficient sources until proper sources and/ or verification have been provided. This means the historic content is preserved which makes it easier to reintegrate if and when proper citations have been provided.

Procedure

Who decides if content is quarantined or just deleted altogether

Any Editor can decide if content should be quarantined. Or if it is warranted just to delete it. Remember: Any and all content that has been added after 01 August 2024 and that is not properly sourced is subject to deletion on sight without need for a case-by-case decision. If in doubt if specific content could/should merit a Quarantine feel free to contact an Administrator or other, more experienced editors via their User Talk Pages or go to the Lexicanum's Discord server which has a dedicated Helpdesk channel.

How to quarantine content - a step-by-step guide

1.) Place the Quarantine template at the very top of the article in question by inserting {{Quarantine}}. The template will look like this and alert readers that there is quarantined content regarding the article they are currently reading:

Some text passages and/or images of this article have been removed due to insufficient Citations and placed under Quarantine on this article's Discussion page until proper citations have been provided. You can help to restore them to the article by finding the correct citations and re-integrating the quarantined text and/ or images as described in the Help article on citations.

2.) Cut (=remove) and paste the content in question to the top of the article's Discussion page under the heading ==Quarantined content==. Insert the Quarantine start and end templates before and after the quarantined content by inserting {{Quarantine Start}} and {{Quarantine End}} respectively. If possible include a Note with helpful additional information.

This will look like this:

The text and/or images below this notification have been removed from the article to which this Discussion page belongs to due to insufficient Citations and placed under Quarantine until proper citations have been provided. You can help to restore them to the article by finding the correct citations and re-integrating the quarantined text and/ or images as described in the Help article on citations. Once quarantined items have been restored properly, the items should be removed from here. If no more items remain in quarantine the corresponding templates should also be removed.

Quarantined text. NOTE: helpful pointers for example about which sources have already been checked or where one could potentially look

The content above this notification is under Quarantine until proper citations have been provided.

Where to find quarantined content

Articles that contain the Quarantine template are automatically listed in the Quarantine category.

How to "de-quarantine" content

To "de-quarantine" content it has to be properly sourced. So if and when a proper source has been found the quarantined information can be moved back to the article page and be deleted from the Quarantined section on the article's Discussion page. Do not forget to clean up the "Quarantined content" section in order to prevent unnecessary research work. Also do not forget to remove all Quarantine templates once all quarantined content has been "de-quarantined".