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May be placed in a section that is completely empty, containing neither text nor sub-sections. Optional

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Content tends to follow sectioning on Wikipedia, as editors naturally will tend to fill in sections over time. Therefore, using this template to set up good placeholder sections at the start of an article's lifespan can aide its development over time.

Usage

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Parameters

  • |date= : month and year the section was last checked for references; e.g., |date=November 2024
  • |small= : Any value (typically "y", "yes", etc.) will make the template smaller. The template should normally be full-width when it applies to an entire section.
  • |find= : search keywords for
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  • |find2= : search keywords for
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Date

The |date= parameter sorts the article into subcategories of Category:Articles to be expanded, allowing the oldest problems to be identified and dealt with first. You do not need to specify the date manually; a bot will add it later automatically.

Find parameters

There are two 'find' parameters available to control the presentation and operation of the

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  • |find= to specify keywords for an exact search (double-quoted query); this corresponds to
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  • |find2= to specify keywords for an unquoted search; this corresponds to
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Template Data

This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. see a monthly parameter usage report for Template:Empty section in articles.

TemplateData for Empty section

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Maintenance template to be placed in sections that are empty, containing neither text nor sub-sections. Before tagging an empty section, consider removing the section heading instead – for example, an empty "Gallery", "See also" or "External links" section can safely be deleted. Puts articles into [[Category:Articles with empty sections]] and [[Category:Articles to be expanded]].

Template parameters

This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.

ParameterDescriptionTypeStatus
Month and yeardate

The month and year that the template was placed (in full). "{{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}" inserts the current month and year automatically.

Example
January 2013
Auto value
{{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}
Linesuggested
Section numbersection

The ordinal number of the section to be edited (goes after "&section=" in the "adding to it" link)

Example
3
Numberoptional
Make template bigsmall

Enter anything other than "left" here to make the template box big and centred.

Default
left
Example
no
Auto value
no
Lineoptional
"Find sources" verbatim search termfind

Verbatim search term for the links in the template for finding sources

Lineoptional
"Find sources" non-verbatim search termfind2

Non-verbatim search term for the links in the template for finding sources

Lineoptional
Commentcomment

Custom text to go after "This section is empty."

Stringoptional

Tracking categories

Redirects

See also

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