Editing Template:Orphan/doc (section)

==Visibility==
The template message is visible on all pages where the [[#date|date parameter]] is set to either the current month or the previous month (currently <u>{{Monthyear}}</u> or <u>{{Monthyear-1}}</u>). It is also visible on all pages where it is used inside the {{tl|multiple issues}} template. Older-dated orphan templates used outside of the {{tl|multiple issues}} template are invisible by default, but are still categorized. To override the default and make the message visible on all pages where it's placed, put the following line in your [[special:mypage/common.css|common.css]] file (create the file if you don't have one yet):
<syntaxhighlight lang="css">
.ambox-Orphan{display: table !important;}
</syntaxhighlight> This may not work in some older browsers - if it doesn't work, use <syntaxhighlight lang=css>.ambox-Orphan{display: block !important;}</syntaxhighlight> instead.
Alternatively, to '''''never''''' see this tag, you could instead add to your [[Special:MyPage/common.css|common.css]]:
<syntaxhighlight lang="css">
.ambox-Orphan{ display: none !important; }
</syntaxhighlight>
The orphan message box is invisible on ''this'' page by default. If you have correctly installed the above common.css the orphan message box is visible here.

===Rationale===
There are {{PAGESINCAT:All orphaned articles}} orphaned articles in the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Orphanage|WikiProject Orphanage]]-backlog. The tags on newly created articles are visible for a month or two, in hopes that the article's creators or reviewers will tend to the issue. After a couple of months it's assumed that the WikiProject will need to take on the task, and project members use their common.css files to keep the templates visible. The community consensus is that this issue is insufficiently critical to merit notifying general readers of the issue for more than a couple of months, unless the article has {{tl|multiple issues}}. Please review the discussions related to this on [[Template talk:Orphan]] and its archives.