Template:Expand section/doc

This is the {{expand-section}} message box.

It can be placed at the top of article sections that need expansion, below the section title. It can also be used on other pages such as in "Wikipedia:" space. (Although this template currently only uses the "article message box" style, but that is a bug we are going to fix.)

This template can be used without any parameters, like this:

{{expand-section}}

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It can also take the current month and year as a parameter, which is used in categorising the page into a corresponding category. (See more on that below.) Like this:

{{expand-section|date=September 2024}}

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There are bots that edit the pages and add the date parameter if you forget to do it. The date parameter causes no visible change in the message box itself, it only makes the page categorise properly.

This template can also take an unnamed parameter with an explanation of what expansion the section needs. And you can of course feed the date parameter at the same time. Like this:

{{expand-section|examples and additional citations|date=September 2024}}

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When this template is used in main (article) space it places the article in Category:Articles to be expanded or in a dated category like Category:Articles to be expanded since September 2024 if the date parameter "date=September 2024" is specified. It also places the article in Category:All articles to be expanded.

The following names redirect here and can be used as alternative names for this template:

• {{expandsect}}
• {{section expansion request}}
• {{expandsection}}
• {{section-expand}}
• {{expand-sect}}
• {{expandsectionsmall}}
• {{expand section}}
• {{sectexpand}}
• {{sect-expand}}
• {{section stub}}
• {{section-stub}}
• {{sect-stub}}
• {{sectstub}}
• {{xstub}}

• {{expand}} – The corresponding box to be placed at the top of pages.

• Template documentation pages