Template:Rename section/doc
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If the title of a Wikipedia page section is not appropriately named to reflect its contents you may place this template at the top of the section. This template adds a banner stating the problem at the top of the section, and also adds its tagged articles to Category:Wikipedia articles with sections named inappropriately.
Usage
{{Rename section|date=October 2024}}
or{{Rename section|date=Month Year|reason=Your explanation here}}
Parameters
- date: The date of adding the template may be used as the first parameter, in the form of Month Year.
- talk: The title of the talk page entry about the issue if you started one.
- reason: You may use the
|reason=
parameter to provide a short explanation describing the issue directly within the template, instead of, or in addition to the talk parameter.
Template data
<templatedata> { "params": { "talksection": { "aliases": [ "talk", "discuss" ], "description": "The name of a section on the talk page to discuss the issue. Do not include the hash (#) symbol", "example": "Name_of_section", "type": "string", "suggested": true }, "reason": { "description": "A brief explanation for why the tag has been placed", "type": "string" }, "section": { "description": "The number of the section in question. This can be found by clicking the edit button next to the section title. The section number is displayed after §ion= in the URL", "type": "number", "suggested": true }, "date": { "description": "The date this tag was added. E.g., \"January 2013\" NOT \"jan13\"", "example": "January 2013", "type": "date", "autovalue": "{{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}", "required": true } }, "format": "inline", "description": "If the title of a Wikipedia page section is not appropriately named to reflect its contents you may place this template at the top of the section. This template adds a banner stating the problem at the top of the section, and also adds its tagged articles to Category:Wikipedia articles with sections named inappropriately" } </templatedata>
Redirects
The following templates are redirects to this template and will display the same message:
See also
- Help:Section
- Wikipedia:Article titles
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Layout § Names and orders for section headings
- Wikipedia:Tagging pages for problems
- Wikipedia:Twinkle
Templates that might be a better fit than this one
- {{Subsections}}
- {{Requested move}} – for full articles that need renaming