Help:Development stages
Development stages are little indicators placed next to a link to a book or a page to indicate its progress, as reviewed at a certain date. They also are used on a book's main page to indicate the book's progress as a whole. They help readers identify comprehensive content, while drawing editors' attention to pages needing work.
Quart stagesThere are two templates that create the quart stages indicators: {{stage}} and {{stage short}}. They take the development stage as their first argument and a date as an optional second:
Deci-stagesThe {{decistage}} template creates an indicator with ten stages:
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Book completion status
Readers browsing through a certain subject area or classification often want to view books that are complete or closer to completion. In order to indicate the level of completion for a book, add {{status|<PROGRESS>}} to a book's main page, where <PROGRESS> is one of the following: 0%, 25%, 50%, 75%, or 100%. Don't abuse this to try to make your book more popular; misleading readers will cause them to leave in frustration.
| Use | To put a book in |
|---|---|
| {{status|100%}} | Completed books |
| {{status|75%}} | Books nearing completion |
| {{status|50%}} | Half-finished books |
| {{status|25%}} | Partly developed books |
| {{status|0%}} | Freshly started books |
