Template:Expand section/doc
This is a documentation subpage for Template:Expand section. It contains usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page. |
This is the {{Expand section}}
message box.
It can be placed at the beginning of article sections that need expansion, after the section title. It can also be used on other pages such as in "LNF Wiki:" space. (This template currently only uses the "article message box" style, but that is a bug we are going to fix.)
This template can be used without any parameters, like this:
{{Expand section}}
This section requires expansion. |
It can also take the current month and year as a parameter, which is used in categorising the page into a corresponding category. (See more on that further.) Like this:
{{Expand section|date=December 2024}}
or
{{Expand section|{{subst:DATE}}}}
This section requires expansion. (December 2024) |
The date parameter causes no visible change in the message box itself, it only makes the page categorise properly.
This template can also take a |1=
(a.k.a. |with=
or |for=
) parameter with an explanation of what expansion the section needs. And you can of course feed the date parameter at the same time. Like this:
{{Expand section|1=examples and additional citations|date=December 2024}}
This section requires expansion with: examples and additional citations. (December 2024) |
When multiple expansion issues need to be raised, a bullet list can be made:
{{Expand section|1=<nowiki />
* Career from 1952 to 1960
* Final days after 1972 retirement
|{{subst:DATE}}}}
This section requires expansion with:
|
(The <nowiki />
is required or the first item may not display correctly.) If this list were longer than three items, it would probably be better raised on the talk page.
Contents
Categorisation
When this template is used in main (article) space it places the article in Category:Articles to be expanded or in a dated category like Category:Articles to be expanded from December 2024 if the date parameter "date=December 2024" is specified. It also places the article in Category:All articles needing cleanup.
Usage
- If the section is completely empty, you can use
{{Empty section}}
instead. - For the references section, use one of
{{No footnotes}}
and{{More footnotes}}
instead.
TemplateData
TemplateData for Expand section
<templatedata> {
"description": "Can be placed at the beginning of article sections that need expansion, after the section title.", "params": { "1": { "label": "reason", "description": "Reason the template was added, an explanation of what expansion the section needs. A bulleted list with lines beginning '*' can be given.", "type": "string", "required": false, "aliases": ["with","for"] }, "talksection": { "label": "talksection", "description": "A section heading in the talk page where the issue is discussed.", "type": "string", "required": false, "aliases": ["discuss","talk"] }, "date": { "label": "date", "description": "The month and year the template was added, e.g. 'August 2013'.", "type": "string", "required": false }, "small": { "label": "small", "description": "By default the template will be displayed in a small size. This can be changed by setting small to no. Not recommended in articles.", "type": "string", "required": false } }
} </templatedata>
See also
{{Expand section}}
{{Expand list}}
{{Empty section}}