Template:Rename section

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If the title of a Wikipedia page section is not appropriately named to reflect its contents you may place this template at the top of the section. This template adds a banner stating the problem at the top of the section, and also adds its tagged articles to Category:Wikipedia articles with sections named inappropriately.

Usage

{{Rename section|date=May 2024}} or {{Rename section|date=Month Year|reason=Your explanation here}}

Parameters

• date: The date of adding the template may be used as the first parameter, in the form of Month Year.
• talk: The title of the talk page entry about the issue if you started one.
• reason: You may use the |reason= parameter to provide a short explanation describing the issue directly within the template, instead of, or in addition to the talk parameter.

Template data

If the title of a Wikipedia page section is not appropriately named to reflect its contents you may place this template at the top of the section. This template adds a banner stating the problem at the top of the section, and also adds its tagged articles to Category:Wikipedia articles with sections named inappropriately

Template parameters[Edit template data]

This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
talksection	talksection talk discuss	The name of a section on the talk page to discuss the issue. Do not include the hash (#) symbol Example Name_of_section	String	suggested
reason	reason	A brief explanation for why the tag has been placed	String	optional
section	section	The number of the section in question. This can be found by clicking the edit button next to the section title. The section number is displayed after &section= in the URL	Number	suggested
date	date	The date this tag was added. E.g., "January 2013" NOT "jan13" Example January 2013 Auto value {{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}	Date	required

Redirects

The following templates are redirects to this template and will display the same message:

• {{Inappropriate section title}}

See also

• Help:Section
• Wikipedia:Article titles
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Layout § Names and orders for section headings
• Wikipedia:Tagging pages for problems
• Wikipedia:Twinkle

Templates that might be a better fit than this one

• {{Subsections}}
• {{Requested move}} – for full articles that need renaming

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