This is a documentation subpage for Template:Unfocused. It may contain usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page.

This template should not be substituted.

This template is used to signal that the article taken as a whole may lack a single, central point of focus or appears to be about more than one topic. It may benefit from being split.

• This template places articles into Category:Wikipedia articles lacking focus.
• This template is a self-reference.
• Please use the |reason= parameter to provide details.

Placement and talk

This is a dispute template which should be placed at the top of the article.

After posting this template, please start a section on the article's talk page to discuss. You can use the optional |talk= parameter to specify the name of a specific section on the talk page.

If the article appears to be about two or more specific topics, or meanders such that you cannot identify a single central focus, please specify this using the |reason= parameter.

Example of use

{{Unfocused|reason=the article covers both widgets and doodads and should be split|date=July 2024}}

This renders as:

This article may lack focus or may be about more than one topic. In particular, the article covers both widgets and doodads and should be split. Please help improve this article, possibly by splitting the article and/or by introducing a disambiguation page, or discuss this issue on the talk page. (July 2024)

Do not capitalize the beginning of the reason, since it is preceded by, "In particular, ". Also do not add a full stop at the end of the reason because the template automatically supplies it.

Notes:

• The date-substitution template may be used to automatically generate the date, e.g., {{Unfocused|{{SUBST:DATE}}}}. See Help:Substitution for more information.
• The |date= parameter need not be added by the editor: if not entered, a bot will soon add it. The date parameter consists of the full English name of the current month with initial capital, a space, and the year, not full dates; e.g., "January 2013", but not "jan13". Any deviation from these two rules will result in an "invalid date parameter" error.

• |date=July 2024 - required parameter, will be added by a bot if omitted
• |reason=text - optional parameter which adds advisory text
• |talk=section - optional parameter which indicates the talk page section
• |section=yes - optional parameter which replaces the word "article" with the word "section" to indicate that it is the section where it is placed that lacks focus

Paste-ready example: {{Unfocused|date=July 2024}}

Example with reason: {{Unfocused|date=July 2024|reason=}}

Example with talk: {{Unfocused|date=July 2024|talk=}}

• {{ Incoherent}}
• {{ Incoherent-topic}}
• {{ Lacks focus}}

• {{ Confusing}}, when the specific wording of the article is at issue, rather than overall focus
• Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup for an overview of clean up templates.