When copying material from one Wikipedia article to another, you can put this template on the talk page of both articles, to indicate that its page history contains the attribution to Wikipedian contributors of the material that lies elsewhere.

Notes also need to be put in edit summaries of both articles; see Wikipedia:Splitting#Procedure.

Usage

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Do not wikilink |to= and |from= — these are automatically linked for you.

{{Split article
| from = name of page material was removed from
| from_oldid = permanent link url or revisionid from which the material was copied
| to = name of page material was copied to
| diff = url or either a single revisionid or a diff of two revisionids separated by a slash showing the addition of the material
| date = date and time material was moved
}}

The |to= and |date= fields are required. If |to= is not provided, the template will refuse to show its usual text.

The |from=, |from_oldid=, and |diff= fields are optional, but using them makes it easier for readers and editors to trace the split. Where the page was created with the split material as the first edit, the diff parameter cannot be accessed in the normal radio button, comparison mode in the page history. Instead, navigate to the permanent link for the first edit, and copy the "oldid". For example, where the end of the URL is &oldid=271444811, the revisionid is 271444811. When using two revisionids, the oldid should be first, followed by a slash and the diff. If you have trouble using the revisionids, you can use the whole URL.

This template can be placed on the talk page of the article that was split and the talk page of the new article receiving the split content. When placing the template on the new article receiving the split content, provide the |from= parameter for proper attribution. If the receiving article already had content, you may wish to use {{Merged-from}}, instead.

Multiple splits

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Additional splits from the same article can be specified by adding a number after each variable, so the second split would use |to2=, |date2=, |from_oldid2= and |diff2= and so on:

{{Split article
| from = name of page material was removed from
| to  = 
| from_oldid  = 
| diff  = 
| date  = 
| to2 = 
| from_oldid2 = 
| diff2 = 
| date2 = 
| to3 = 
| from_oldid3 = 
| diff3 = 
| date3 = 
}}

The template can support any number of splits, as long as the numbers that go after each parameter are consecutive. If |to3= is provided but |to2= is not, only |to1= will show up.

The |collapse= parameter can be used to collapse some or all of the listed items. Set |collapse=yes to collapse all items, or |collapse=4 to hide all entries below |date4= for instance.

Errors

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Errors and warnings about template usage are tracked using the following tracking categories:

TemplateData

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Talk page notice used to indicate that a page's history contains splits and require attribution to contributors elsewhere

Template parameters

ParameterDescriptionTypeStatus
Collapsecollapse

Whether to collapse values. Set to "yes" to collapse all by default, or a number at which all rows after that number will be collapsed.

Suggested values
yes
Example
"yes", "2", "5"
Stringoptional
Fromfrom

Page that split content originally came from

Page namerequired
To 1to to1

Target page of an article split

Unknownrequired
Diff 1diff diff1

Revision ID of the revision which added the split content into the target page

Numbersuggested
Date 1date date1

Date on which the split occurred

Auto value
{{subst:CURRENTDAY}} {{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}
Datesuggested
From revision 1from_oldid from_oldid1

Revision ID of the page at the time of the split

Numbersuggested
To 2to2

Target page of an article split

Unknownsuggested
Diff 2diff2

Revision ID of the revision which added the split content into the target page

Numbersuggested
Date 2date2

Date on which the split occurred

Auto value
{{subst:CURRENTDAY}} {{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}
Datesuggested
From revision 2from_oldid2

Revision ID of the page at the time of the split

Numbersuggested
To 3to3

Target page of an article split

Unknownoptional
Diff 3diff3

Revision ID of the revision which added the split content into the target page

Numberoptional
Date 3date3

Date on which the split occurred

Auto value
{{subst:CURRENTDAY}} {{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}
Dateoptional
From revision 3from_oldid3

Revision ID of the page at the time of the split

Numberoptional
To 4to4

Target page of an article split

Unknownoptional
Diff 4diff4

Revision ID of the revision which added the split content into the target page

Numberoptional
Date 4date4

Date on which the split occurred

Auto value
{{subst:CURRENTDAY}} {{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}
Dateoptional
From revision 4from_oldid4

Revision ID of the page at the time of the split

Numberoptional
To 5to5

Target page of an article split

Unknownoptional
Diff 5diff5

Revision ID of the revision which added the split content into the target page

Numberoptional
Date 5date5

Date on which the split occurred

Auto value
{{subst:CURRENTDAY}} {{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}
Dateoptional
From revision 5from_oldid5

Revision ID of the page at the time of the split

Numberoptional
To 6to6

Target page of an article split

Unknownoptional
Diff 6diff6

Revision ID of the revision which added the split content into the target page

Numberoptional
Date 6date6

Date on which the split occurred

Auto value
{{subst:CURRENTDAY}} {{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}
Dateoptional
From revision 6from_oldid6

Revision ID of the page at the time of the split

Numberoptional
To 7to7

Target page of an article split

Unknownoptional
Diff 7diff7

Revision ID of the revision which added the split content into the target page

Numberoptional
Date 7date7

Date on which the split occurred

Auto value
{{subst:CURRENTDAY}} {{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}
Dateoptional
From revision 7from_oldid7

Revision ID of the page at the time of the split

Numberoptional
To 8to8

Target page of an article split

Unknownoptional
Diff 8diff8

Revision ID of the revision which added the split content into the target page

Numberoptional
Date 8date8

Date on which the split occurred

Auto value
{{subst:CURRENTDAY}} {{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}
Dateoptional
From revision 8from_oldid8

Revision ID of the page at the time of the split

Numberoptional
To 9to9

Target page of an article split

Unknownoptional
Diff 9diff9

Revision ID of the revision which added the split content into the target page

Numberoptional
Date 9date9

Date on which the split occurred

Auto value
{{subst:CURRENTDAY}} {{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}
Dateoptional
From revision 9from_oldid9

Revision ID of the page at the time of the split

Numberoptional
To 10to10

Target page of an article split

Unknownoptional
Diff 10diff10

Revision ID of the revision which added the split content into the target page

Numberoptional
Date 10date10

Date on which the split occurred

Auto value
{{subst:CURRENTDAY}} {{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}
Dateoptional
From revision 10from_oldid10

Revision ID of the page at the time of the split

Numberoptional
Demodemo nocat

Disables tracking categories if enabled

Booleanoptional

See also

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