Editing Template:Infobox language/doc (section)

== Error-tracking categories ==
With 8,000 articles, manual review is insufficient. The following automating tracking categories should catch some of the more common errors. They also produce lists of articles that should be reviewed occasionally, because they lack population data or the data is dated.

; ISO support
* {{Category link with count|Languages without ISO 639-3 code}} – [iso3=] is set to 'none', as it is not (yet) included in ISO. May have other codes.
** {{Category link with count|Conlangs without ISO 639-3 code}} – subcat: most conlangs do not qualify for ISO
** {{Category link with count|Nonexistent E17 links}} – setting [iso3=none] and [ref=e17] generates an invalid reference
* {{Category link with count|Language articles without language codes}} – no language code listed, but not specifically excluded from ISO with [iso3=none]
** {{Category link with count|Languages without ISO 639-3 code but with Linguist List code}}
*** subcat {{Category link with count|Dialects with Linguist List code}} – LingList codes some dialects with sub-ISO codes as "xxx-yyy"
** {{Category link with count|Languages without ISO 639-3 code but with Linguasphere code}}
** {{Category link with count|Languages without ISO 639-3 code but with AIATSIS code}}
** {{Category link with count|Languages without ISO 639-3 code but with Guthrie code}}
** {{Category link with count|Dialects of languages with ISO 639-3 code}} – a normal exception, triggered by isoexception=dialect
** {{Category link with count|Historical forms of languages with ISO codes}} – a normal exception, triggered by isoexception=historical
** {{Category link with count|Protolanguages without ISO codes}} – a normal exception, triggered by isoexception=protolanguage
* {{Category link with count|Languages which need ISO 639-3 comment}} – triggered by [lc1=] without [lc2=] (once used as a way to provide comments; occasionally still appropriate with [iso3=] when a second but redundant ISO code is included)
* {{Category link with count|Languages with ISO 639-2 code}} – sometimes the 639-3 code is mistakenly copied into the <code>iso2</code> field
* {{Category link with count|Languages with ISO 639-1 code}}

; Speaker and date issues
* {{Category link with count|Language articles without speaker estimate}} – no entry under [speakers=], and not extinct, a sign language, or a conlang
* {{Category link with count|Language articles with invalid population dates}} – entry error at [date=] (anything other than a 4-digit number at start)
* {{Category link with count|Language articles with speaker number undated}} – no entry at [date=]
** {{Category link with count|Language articles with 'no date' set}} – [date=no date], used when the source lacks a date
** {{Category link with count|Language articles with NA population dates}} – [date=NA], used when a date does not apply
* {{Category link with count|Language articles with old speaker data}} – currently set to > 25 years
* {{Category link with count|Language articles without reference field}}

; Classification
* {{Category link with count|Language articles with spurious family}} – generally because [fam1=] is autofilled from [familycolor] to 'American', 'Australian', 'Papuan', 'Khoisan', 'Caucasian', 'Andamanese', or 'Paleosiberian'
* {{Category link with count|Languages without family color codes}} – no or invalid familycolor
* {{Category link with count|Languages without classification}} – family displayed as 'unknown' (sometimes triggered by SLs or conlangs)

; Other
* {{Category link with count|Language articles needing infoboxes}} – manual cat: switch off (to "no") if you judge the article does not need one
* {{Category link with count|Ill-formatted infobox-language images}} – images need to be stripped of external file formatting
* {{Category link with count|Language articles with unsupported infobox fields}} – detects any parameter not in the list, incl. for now anything over dia20
* {{Category link with count|Articles citing AIATSIS}}
* {{Category link with count|Articles citing INALI}}
* {{Category link with count|Articles citing Linguist List}}
* {{Category link with count|Articles citing Maho/Guthrie}} – category exists in template but has not been created
* {{Category link with count|Articles citing Nationalencyklopedin}}
* {{Category link with count|Articles opting out of population reference}}
* {{Category link with count|Articles with unnamed Glottolog code}}
* {{Category link with count|Dialect articles with speakers set to 'unknown'}}
* {{Category link with count|Extinct ISO language articles citing sources other than Ethnologue}}
* {{Category link with count|ISO language articles citing sources other than Ethnologue}}
* {{Category link with count|Language articles missing Glottolog code}}
* {{Category link with count|Language articles with IETF language tag}}
* {{Category link with count|Language articles with old Ethnologue 18 speaker data}}
* {{Category link with count|Language articles with speakers set to 'none'}}
* {{Category link with count|Language articles with speakers set to 'unknown'}}
* {{Category link with count|Language articles with unknown extinction date}}
* {{Category link with count|Language articles with unknown population not citing Ethnologue 18}}
* {{Category link with count|Language articles with unreferenced extinction date}}
* {{Category link with count|Languages rejected by Glottolog}}
* {{Category link with count|Languages with neither ISO nor Glottolog code}}
* {{Category link with count|Languages without Glottolog code}}
* {{Category link with count|Languages without ISO 639-3 code but with Glottolog code}}
* {{Category link with count|Nonexistent E18 links}}