Template:Duplication
 | This article duplicates the scope of other articles. (December 2025) |
Usage
This template automatically adds articles to Category:Articles in need of internal merging or Category:Duplicate articles.
Basic usage: {{Duplication|date=December 2025}}
Parameters
All parameters are optional.
- section — changes wording to say "This section duplicates...". Place the template at the top of the section.
- Example:
{{Duplication|section=yes}}
- Example:
- dupe — adds a link referring to the section or article being duplicated, and adds the article to Category:Duplicate articles instead of Category:Articles in need of internal merging.
- Examples:
{{Duplication|dupe=#Section name}}{{Duplication|dupe=Article name}}
- Examples:
- dupe2 — same as dupe, just allows for an additional section/article to be linked.
- Example:
{{Duplication|dupe=Article name|dupe2=#Section name}}
- Example:
TemplateData
TemplateData for Duplication
Use this cleanup template to indicate that an article or section duplicates the scope of other articles or sections.
| Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month and year | date | The month and year that the template was placed (in full). "{{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}" inserts the current month and year automatically.
| Line | suggested |
| Duplicate article or section | dupe | The article or section that this article or section duplicates. This also adds this article to Category:Duplicate articles.
| Page name | suggested |
| Duplicate article or section 2 | dupe2 | A second article or section that this article or section duplicates
| Page name | optional |
| Talk page discussion | discuss | Talk page and section where a relevant discussion is taking place
| Page name | optional |
| Affected area | 1 | Text to replace the word "article", usually "section"
| Line | optional |
| Section? | section | Enter any text here to replace the word "article" with "section".
| Line | optional |
| Duplicates other sections? | othersections | If "Affected area" is set to "section", or "Section?" is true, you can enter "y", "yes", "true", "on" or "1" here to change "other articles" to "other sections".
| Line | optional |
| Make template small | small | Enter "left" here to make the template box small and aligned to the left.
| Line | optional |
See also
- WP:REDUNDANTFORK, a content guideline
- See a list of related cleanup templates at Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup.
- {{CWW}}, for pages that have been copied and pasted within Wikipedia
- {{Convert to transclusion}}
- {{Duplicate}}, for files.
- {{Duplication span}}, for duplicate sentences in articles
- {{Split portions}}/{{Merge portions from}}: another approach to mitigate partial duplication
- {{Overly detailed}}, for pages that contain excessive detail that may warrant splitting into a separate article or removing entirely
- {{Summarize section}}
- {{Summarize}}:
{{Summarize|to|ArticleName}},{{Summarize|from|ArticleName}}
Splitting
- {{Split}}
- {{Being split}}
- {{Split section}}
- {{Split sections}}
- {{Split portions}}
- {{Split section portions}}
- {{Cleanup split}}
- {{Copied}}
- {{Split dab}}
- {{Split and dab}}
- {{Split article}}
- {{Very long}}
Merging
- {{Merge}}
- {{Merge to}}
- {{Merge from}}
- {{Being merged}}
- {{Merge portions from}}
- {{Cleanup merge}}
- {{Copied}}
- {{Merged-to}}
- {{Merged-from}}
- {{Old merge full}}
- {{Duplication}}
Section moving
- {{Section move from}}
- {{Section move to}}