Template:Split/doc

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This template will add tagged articles to Category:Articles to be split.

Usage

When two or more distinct topics which share the same or similar title are being written about on the same page, a content split may be considered. Consideration must be given both to notability and to potential neutrality issues before proposing a split. If one or more of the topics is not notable it may be more appropriate to simply remove the material from Wikipedia than to create a new article.

Parameters

If no parameters are used in the template (i.e., {{Split}}), it will display as above.

date

To add the month and year the template was added to the article, add |date=June 2024.

unnamed parameters for article titles

To suggest an article name (or more than one), simply pipe them into the template (or number them |1=, |2=, etc.). For example, {{split|Article 1|date=June 2024}} produces:

Multiple: {{Split|Article 1|Article 2|Article 3|date=June 2024}} produces:

Up to 20 new names can be suggested.

discuss

To specify where the discussion about this split is taking place, use |discuss=, as in {{split|Article 1|date=June 2024|discuss=Talk:Article name#Talk page section}}, which produces:

section

To replace the word "article" (or "page", outside of mainspace), use |section=y to display "section", or use something more specific, as in {{split|Article 1|date=June 2024|section=list}}, which produces:

TemplateData

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

TemplateData for Split

<templatedata> { "description": "Use this template to suggest that an article be split into multiple articles.", "format": "inline", "params": { "1": { "label": "First new page title", "type": "string", "required": true }, "2": { "label": "Second new page title", "type": "string", "suggested": true }, "3": { "label": "Third new page title", "type": "string" }, "4": { "label": "Fourth new page title", "type": "string" }, "5": { "label": "Fifth new page title", "type": "string" }, "6": { "label": "Sixth new page title", "type": "string" }, "7": { "label": "Seventh new page title", "type": "string" }, "8": { "label": "Eighth new page title", "type": "string" }, "9": { "label": "Ninth new page title", "type": "string" }, "10": { "label": "Tenth new page title", "type": "string" }, "11": { "label": "Eleventh new page title", "type": "string" }, "12": { "label": "Twelfth new page title", "type": "string" }, "13": { "label": "Thirteenth new page title", "type": "string" }, "14": { "label": "Fourteenth new page title", "type": "string" }, "15": { "label": "Fifteenth new page title", "type": "string" }, "16": { "label": "Sixteenth new page title", "type": "string" }, "17": { "label": "Seventeenth new page title", "type": "string" }, "18": { "label": "Eighteenth new page title", "type": "string" }, "19": { "label": "Nineteenth new page title", "type": "string" }, "20": { "label": "Twentieth new page title", "type": "string" }, "date": { "label": "Month and year", "description": "The month and year that the template was placed (in full). \"November 2023\" inserts the current month and year automatically.", "type": "line", "autovalue": "November 2023", "example": "January 2013", "suggested": true }, "discuss": { "label": "Talk page discussion", "description": "Talk page and section where the split discussion is taking place", "example": "Talk:Microsoft#Split proposed", "type": "wiki-page-name", "suggested": true, "aliases": [ "talk" ] }, "reason": { "label": "Reason", "description": "Reason for suggesting the split", "example": "some of the content is out of scope", "type": "string" }, "part": { "label": "Suggest only portions be split", "description": "Enter \"y\", \"yes\", \"true\", \"on\" or \"1\" here to suggest that only some portions of the article be split into multiple pages.", "type": "line", "autovalue": "y", "example": "y" }, "section": { "label": "Affected area", "description": "Text to replace the word \"article\", usually \"section\". Entering \"y\", \"yes\", \"true\", \"on\" or \"1\" will also insert the word \"section\".", "type": "line", "autovalue": "section", "example": "section" }, "small": { "label": "Make template small", "description": "Enter any text here to make the template box smaller. Entering \"left\" also makes the font smaller and the box aligned to the left.", "type": "line", "autovalue": "left", "example": "left" }, "demospace": {} }, "paramOrder": [ "date", "1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9", "10", "11", "12", "13", "14", "15", "16", "17", "18", "19", "20", "discuss", "reason", "part", "section", "small", "demospace" ] } </templatedata>

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See also

• {{cleanup split}}
• {{merge}}
• {{split and dab}}
• {{split article}}, talk page notice