Purpose

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This template should be used when certain necessary information is absent from the article. Please open a corresponding discussion detailing the missing information on the article's discussion page before placing the tag. This may assist in avoiding edit-warring by making a good faith attempt to achieve consensus before putting a particular piece of information in an article, especially if it's controversial information. If a consensus is reached that the information should be included, or no one contested the proposal, the information is inserted in the article and the tag is removed.

Caveats

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This template:

Syntax

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{{Missing information|description|date={{monthyear}}}} produces:

{{Missing information|section|description|date={{monthyear}}}} produces:

{{Missing information|description|talksection=talksection|date={{monthyear}}}} produces:

The parameter to indicate what information is missing can also be explicitly named as |about=, |on=, or |reason=.

See also

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TemplateData

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

TemplateData for Missing information

This template should be used when certain necessary information is absent from the article. Please open a corresponding discussion detailing the missing information on the article's discussion page before placing the tag. This may assist in avoiding edit-warring by making a good faith attempt to achieve consensus before putting a particular piece of information in an article, especially if it's controversial information. If a consensus is reached that the information should be included, or no one contested the proposal, the information is inserted in the article and the tag is removed.

Template parameters

ParameterDescriptionTypeStatus
(overloaded)1

Specify "section" to indicate this template applies to a section. Defaults to whole article

Auto value
Linesuggested
Info missing2

The information missing from the article, if not supplied by (overloaded)

Example
a succinct statement of the theorem
Linesuggested
Talk page sectiontalksection

Name of a valid anchor in the article talk page noting this issue. All headings are automatically valid anchors.

Example
Cultural impact missing
Auto value
Stringoptional
datedate

no description

Auto value
{{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}
Datesuggested