Template:Unfocused

This article may lack focus or may be about more than one topic. Please help improve this article, possibly by splitting the article and/or by introducing a disambiguation page, or discuss this issue on the talk page. (February 2025)

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This template should not be substituted .

Usage

This template is used to signal that the article taken as a whole may lack a single, central point of focus or appears to be about more than one topic. It may benefit from being split.

This template places articles into Category:Wikipedia articles lacking focus.
This template is a self-reference.
Please use the |reason= parameter to provide details.

Placement and talk

This is a dispute template which should be placed at the top of the article.

After posting this template, please start a section on the article's talk page to discuss. You can use the optional |talk= parameter to specify the name of a specific section on the talk page.

If the article appears to be about two or more specific topics, or meanders such that you cannot identify a single central focus, please specify this using the |reason= parameter.

Example of use: {{Unfocused|reason=the article covers both widgets and doodads and should be split|date=February 2025}}

This renders as:

This article may lack focus or may be about more than one topic. In particular, the article covers both widgets and doodads and should be split. Please help improve this article, possibly by splitting the article and/or by introducing a disambiguation page, or discuss this issue on the talk page. (February 2025)

Do not capitalize the beginning of the reason, since it is preceded by, "In particular, ". Also do not add a full stop at the end of the reason because the template automatically supplies it.

Notes:

The date-substitution template may be used to automatically generate the date, e.g., {{Unfocused|{{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=February 2025 - required parameter, will be added by a bot if omitted
|reason=text - optional parameter which adds advisory text
|talk=section - optional parameter which indicates the talk page section
|section=yes - optional parameter which replaces the word "article" with the word "section" to indicate that it is the section where it is placed that lacks focus

Examples

Paste-ready example: {{Unfocused|date=February 2025}}

Example with reason: {{Unfocused|date=February 2025|reason=}}

Example with talk: {{Unfocused|date=February 2025|talk=}}

TemplateData

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

TemplateData for Unfocused

A template to indicate that an article is unfocused

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
Talk	`talk` `1`	The section heading on the article's talk page with relevant discussion	String	optional

Template:Unfocused

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