• Home
  • Random
  • Nearby
  • Log in
  • Settings
  • Donate
  • About Wikipedia
  • Disclaimers
Wikipedia

Template:Lead rewrite

Template Talk
  • Language
  • Watch
  • View source
The article's lead section may need to be rewritten. Relevant discussion may be found on the talk page. Please help improve the lead and read the lead layout guide. (December 2023) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)
Template documentation[view] [edit] [history] [purge]
Logo of Twinkle; Police ManIf you plan to make breaking changes to this template, move it, or nominate it for deletion, please notify Twinkle's users and maintainers at Wikipedia talk:Twinkle as a courtesy, as the standard installation of Twinkle adds and removes this template. Thank you!

Contents

  • 1 Usage
  • 2 Notes
  • 3 TemplateData
  • 4 Redirects

Usage

Place this template at the top of articles where the lead section needs to be rewritten. Include the current date and the reason the re-write is needed on the talk page or in the reason parameter, like this:

{{Lead rewrite|date=December 2023|reason=Your critique here.}}

Notes

  • This template will categorize tagged articles into Category:Wikipedia introduction cleanup and Category:Articles covered by WikiProject Wikify.

TemplateData

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

TemplateData for Lead rewrite

Use this cleanup template to indicate that the lead section of an article may need to be rewritten.

Template parameters[Edit template data]

This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.

ParameterDescriptionTypeStatus
Month and yeardate

The month and year that the template was placed (in full). "{{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}" inserts the current month and year automatically.

Example
January 2013
Auto value
{{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}
Linesuggested
Reasonreason

The reason why the lead section may need to be rewritten

Example
it does not adequately summarise the body
Stringoptional
Talk page sectiontalk

Section name on the talk page for further discussion

Lineoptional

Redirects

  1. {{cleanup lead}}
  2. {{intro}}
  3. {{intro-rewrite}}
  4. {{lead}}
  5. {{lead section}}
  6. {{lead-rewrite}}
  7. {{lede}}
  8. {{lede rewrite}}
  9. {{rewrite lead}}
  10. {{vagueintro}}


  • This template contains a self-reference (it refers to Wikipedia in its contents).
  • This template should not be substituted. Bots rely on the transcluded form for dating and categorisation.
  • v
  • t
  • e
Introduction cleanup maintenance templates
  • {{Improve lead}}
  • {{Lead extra info}}
  • {{Lead missing}}
  • {{Lead rewrite}}
  • {{Lead too long}}
  • {{Lead too short}}
  • {{Not verified in body}}
  • {{POV lead}}
  • {{Time-context}}
  • Category
The above documentation is transcluded from Template:Lead rewrite/doc. (edit | history)
Editors can experiment in this template's sandbox (edit | diff) and testcases (edit) pages.
Add categories to the /doc subpage. Subpages of this template.
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Lead_rewrite&oldid=1185808851"
Last edited on 19 November 2023, at 03:45

Languages

    • العربية
    • বাংলা
    • भोजपुरी
    • Català
    • فارسی
    • Français
    • Galego
    • 한국어
    • हिन्दी
    • Bahasa Indonesia
    • ಕನ್ನಡ
    • Magyar
    • മലയാളം
    • Bahasa Melayu
    • नेपाली
    • Occitan
    • Simple English
    • کوردی
    • Svenska
    • தமிழ்
    • తెలుగు
    • Українська
    • اردو
    • Tiếng Việt
    • 中文
    Wikipedia
    • This page was last edited on 19 November 2023, at 03:45 (UTC).
    • Content is available under CC BY-SA 4.0 unless otherwise noted.
    • Privacy policy
    • About Wikipedia
    • Disclaimers
    • Contact Wikipedia
    • Code of Conduct
    • Developers
    • Statistics
    • Cookie statement
    • Terms of Use
    • Desktop