Template:Duplication/doc

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Usage

This template automatically adds articles to Category:Articles in need of internal merging or Category:Duplicate articles.

Basic usage: {{Duplication|date=November 2024}}

Parameters

All parameters are optional.

• section — changes wording to say "This section duplicates...". Place the template at the top of the section.

  Example: {{Duplication|section=yes}}

• dupe — adds a link referring to the section or article being duplicated, and adds the article to Category:Duplicate articles instead of Category:Articles in need of internal merging.

  Examples: {{Duplication|dupe=#Section name}} {{Duplication|dupe=Article name}}

• dupe2 — same as dupe, just allows for an additional section/article to be linked.

  Example: {{Duplication|dupe=Article name|dupe2=#Section name}}

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. See a monthly parameter usage report for Template:Duplication in articles based on its TemplateData.

TemplateData for Duplication

<templatedata> {

   "description": "Use this cleanup template to indicate that an article or section duplicates the scope of other articles or sections.",

"format": "inline", "params": { "date": { "label": "Month and year", "description": "The month and year that the template was placed (in full). \"January 2024\" inserts the current month and year automatically.", "type": "line", "autovalue": "January 2024", "example": "January 2013", "suggested": true }, "dupe": { "label": "Duplicate article or section", "description": "The article or section that this article or section duplicates. This also adds this article to Category:Duplicate articles.", "example": "Microsoft Windows", "type": "wiki-page-name", "suggested": true }, "dupe2": { "label": "Duplicate article or section 2", "description": "A second article or section that this article or section duplicates", "example": "#Windows 10", "type": "wiki-page-name" }, "discuss": { "label": "Talk page discussion", "description": "Talk page and section where a relevant discussion is taking place", "example": "Talk:Microsoft#Duplicate information", "type": "wiki-page-name" }, "1": { "label": "Affected area", "description": "Text to replace the word \"article\", usually \"section\"", "type": "line", "autovalue": "section", "example": "section" }, "section": { "label": "Section?", "description": "Enter any text here to replace the word \"article\" with \"section\".", "type": "line", "autovalue": "y", "example": "y" }, "othersections": { "label": "Duplicates other sections?", "description": "If \"Affected area\" is set to \"section\", or \"Section?\" is true, you can enter \"y\", \"yes\", \"true\", \"on\" or \"1\" here to change \"other articles\" to \"other sections\".", "type": "line", "autovalue": "y", "example": "y" }, "small": { "label": "Make template small", "description": "Enter \"left\" here to make the template box small and aligned to the left.", "type": "line", "autovalue": "left", "example": "left" } }, "paramOrder": [ "date", "dupe", "dupe2", "discuss", "1", "section", "othersections", "small" ] } </templatedata>

See also

• WP:REDUNDANTFORK, a content guideline
• See a list of related cleanup templates at Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup.
• {{CWW}}, for pages that have been copied and pasted within CAPipedia*{{Convert to transclusion}}
• {{Duplicate}}, for files.
• {{Split portions}}/{{Merge portions from}}: another approach to mitigate partial duplication
• {{Overly detailed}}, for pages that contain excessive detail that may warrant splitting into a separate article or removing entirely
• {{Summarize section}}
• {{Summarize}}: {{Summarize|to|ArticleName}}, {{Summarize|from|ArticleName}}