It is used to build and maintain a list or lists of pages—primarily for the sake of the lists themselves and their use in article and category maintenance. It is not part of the encyclopedia's categorization scheme.
These categories are used to track, build and organize lists of pages needing "attention en masse" (for example, pages using deprecated syntax), or that may need to be edited at someone's earliest convenience.
These categories also serve to aggregate members of several lists or subcategories into a larger, more efficient list (discriminated by classifications).
Typically, tracking categories are automatically populated by templates invoked in pages or by the MediaWiki software (see Special:TrackingCategories for an overview of the latter).
Administrators: Please do not delete this category as empty! This category may be empty occasionally or even most of the time.
This category is populated by articles transcluding ((Infobox person)) with potentially multiple people after the | spouse = parameter.
The template code for Infobox person contains logic to dynamically change the label to display "Spouse" if there is only one person listed or "Spouses" if multiple people are listed (such as using any of the typical list templates like Plainlist or Unbulleted list).
If the template logic is unable to determine a singular or plural set, the label will display as "Spouse(s)" to remain neutral.
Example: the logic for commas assumes a comma separates two distinct people when it could instead just be part of a person's legal name (e.g., a comma before the suffix Jr. or Sr., as in "Alex Aardvark, Jr.").
A less graceful workaround to force the template to recognize the singular person can include adding the template ((Force singular)) after the name.
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