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This category is populated by articles transcluding {{Marriage}} — red messages are shown only in preview:

• B — the article's subject deceased; missing parameter 2, parameter 3, and end/reason parameter. Sort key: Before
• D — using [the article's subject's] date of death in parameter 3 and missing end/reason parameter. Sort key: Death date
• I — using invalid dates/years in parameter 2 or parameter 3. Sort key: Invalid date/year
• N — missing parameter 2, parameter 3, and end/reason parameter. Sort key: No value
• P — using posthumous/future dates/years in parameter 3. Sort key: Posthumous/future date/year
• U — using unsupported parameters. Sort key: Unsupported parameter
• W — using end/reason parameter values w, w., wid, wid., widow, or widowed, which are unsupported. Sort key: Widowed
• X — using the end/reason parameter value his/her death or his/she d. because of the article's subject's death. Sort key: X
  • As described in Template:Marriage docs, if the marriage ended because of the death of the article's subject, do not provide an end reason nor an end date.
• Z — missing parameter 1. Sort key: Z, No value