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If you are in the process of starting a new cluster then:
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Revision as of 00:30, 2 October 2008

You may see this box for one of three reasons. Either:

A - New page has been created
B - Template:Orphan subpage#Orphaned subpage; accidently not moved with the old cluster.
C - Cluster move is in progress


New page created

If you are in the process of starting a new cluster then:

The following links will be useful:

Orphaned subpage

If you found this page by following a hyperlink to this page, you may have found an orphaned subpage or metadata page.

What next?
If this is a subpage:
a) with content:
  • Someone may have created subpage content without an article.
  • A page may have been moved to a new location and this page may have been accidently left behind.
    • The former article might have existed at "Orphan subpage".
    • Or it was created as a stand alone subpage and never had an associated article or metadata page.
  • Consider if there is a home to merge the data to or consider starting a cluster around this content.
b) without content:
  • As this page is not associated with any article it should probably be deleted.
If the article name includes a slash:
  • A slash (/) in a title is not compatible with the CZ subpages format.
  • Make this page into a redirect to a more appropriate name. For an example, see GNU/Linux.

For a Cluster Move

Use the following directions:

The metadata template needs to be moved to the new name. It can be found at the following link.