This article may be incomprehensible or very hard to understand. Please help by rewording it if the intended meaning can be determined. The talk page may have details. (April 2024)

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Usage

This template places articles into Category:Wikipedia articles that are incomprehensible.
Please use the |reason= parameter to provide details.

Notes:

The date-substitution template may be used to automatically generate the date, e.g., ((Incomprehensible|((SUBST:DATE)))). See Help:Substitution for more information.
The |date= parameter need not be added by the editor: if not entered, a bot will soon add it. The date parameter consists of the full English name of the current month with initial capital, a space, and the year, not full dates; e.g., "January 2013", but not "jan13". Any deviation from these two rules will result in an "invalid date parameter" error.

Parameters

|date=April 2024 - required parameter, will be added by a bot if omitted
|reason=text - optional parameter which adds advisory text
|machine=yes - optional parameter which adds "Sometimes this can be due to machine translation."
|section=text - optional parameter which changes the word "article" to "section" if 'y', 'yes', '1', or 'true' or its value otherwise
|talk=section - optional parameter which indicates the talk page section
|small=left - optional parameter which allows the use of the small format

Examples

Paste-ready example: ((Incomprehensible|date=April 2024))

Example with reason: ((Incomprehensible|date=April 2024|reason=))

Example with talk: ((Incomprehensible|date=April 2024|talk=))

Example with machine: ((Incomprehensible|date=April 2024|machine=yes))

Example with section: ((Incomprehensible|section|date=April 2024)) or ((Incomprehensible|date=April 2024|section=yes))

Example with small: ((Incomprehensible|date=April 2024|small=left))

((Incomprehensible|small=left|machine=yes)) generates:

This article may be incomprehensible or very hard to understand. Sometimes this can be due to machine translation. Please help by rewording it if the intended meaning can be determined. The talk page may have details. (April 2024)

TemplateData

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

TemplateData for Incomprehensible

A template to indicate that an article contains incomprehensible text

Template parameters[Edit template data]
Parameter		Description	Type	Status
Date	`date`	The month and year the template was added Example October 2015 Auto value `((SUBST:CURRENTMONTHNAME)) ((SUBST:CURRENTYEAR))`	String	required
Reason	`reason`	A reason for adding the template	String	optional
Machine Translation	`machine`	Adds: Sometimes this can be due to machine translation.	String	optional
Section	`sect` `section` `1`	Changes the word article	String	optional
Talk	`talk` `2`	The section heading on the article's talk page with relevant discussion	String	optional
Small	`small`	Allows the use of the small format Example left	String	optional

Usage

Parameters

Examples

TemplateData

See also