Template:Technical/doc

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Not to be confused with Template:Wikipedia technical help, Template:JargonFile, or Template:Technical reasons.

This template is used to identify articles or sections featuring excessive jargon, without enough explanation of concepts and too difficult for readers to understand without a background in the field. The article should be edited to be made simpler, or the presentation of the topic should be explained or reworded.

When adding this template, explain the issue in the edit summary or on the talk page. Without such explanation, editors with the knowledge to fix the issue often cannot address the issue as they do not know why the template was added in the first place.

Usage

This template adds tagged articles to Category:Wikipedia articles that are too technical and Category:Articles needing expert attention, or their dated subcategories.

• date = adds a date. Month name and year like this date=November 2024

Examples

Basic usage

{{Technical|date=November 2024}}

With section parameter

{{Technical|section|date=November 2024}}

With focus on the introduction

{{Technical|introduction|date=November 2024}}

This template supports the "demospace" variable.

See also

• Wikipedia:Template index/Cleanup
  • {{Buzzword}}
  • {{Context}}
  • {{Over-explained}}
  • {{Overly detailed}}
  • {{Technical inline}}, for inline use
  • {{Too abstract}}
• {{JargonFile}}, for articles primarily sourced to the Jargon File

TemplateData

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

TemplateData for Technical

<templatedata> {

   "description": "Use this cleanup template to indicate that an article may be too technical for most readers to understand.",

"format": "inline", "params": { "date": { "label": "Month and year", "description": "The month and year that the template was placed (in full). \"{{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}\" inserts the current month and year automatically.", "type": "line", "autovalue": "{{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}", "example": "January 2013", "suggested": true }, "talk": { "label": "Talk page section", "description": "Section name on the talk page for further discussion", "type": "line" }, "1": { "label": "Affected area", "description": "Text to replace the word \"article\", usually \"section\"", "type": "string", "autovalue": "section", "example": "section" }, "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", "talk",

       "1",
       "small"

] } </templatedata>