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Purpose
This template should be used when certain necessary information is absent from the article. Please open a corresponding discussion detailing the missing information on the article's discussion page before placing the tag. This may assist in avoiding edit-warring by making a good faith attempt to achieve consensus before putting a particular piece of information in an article, especially if it's controversial information. If a consensus is reached that the information should be included, or no one contested the proposal, the information is inserted in the article and the tag is removed.
Caveats
This template:
- sorts articles into Category:Articles to be expanded
|nocat=truecan be used to subdue categorization if necessary
- is a self-reference
- cannot be substituted
Syntax
((Missing information|description|date=((monthyear)))) produces:
((Missing information|section|description|date=((monthyear)))) produces:
((Missing information|description|talksection=talksection|date=((monthyear)))) produces:
The parameter to indicate what information is missing can also be explicitly named as |about=, |on=, or |reason=.
See also
- ((Explain)) (inline)
- ((Incomplete list))
- ((Expand section))
- ((Refideas))
- List of dispute templates
TemplateData
TemplateData for Missing information
This template should be used when certain necessary information is absent from the article. Please open a corresponding discussion detailing the missing information on the article's discussion page before placing the tag. This may assist in avoiding edit-warring by making a good faith attempt to achieve consensus before putting a particular piece of information in an article, especially if it's controversial information. If a consensus is reached that the information should be included, or no one contested the proposal, the information is inserted in the article and the tag is removed.
| Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (overloaded) | 1 | Specify "section" to indicate this template applies to a section. Defaults to whole article
| Line | suggested |
| Info missing | 2 | The information missing from the article, if not supplied by (overloaded)
| Line | suggested |
| Talk page section | talksection | Name of a valid anchor in the article talk page noting this issue. All headings are automatically valid anchors.
| String | optional |
| date | date | no description
| Date | suggested |