Template:Technical

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Not to be confused with Template:Wikipedia technical help or Template:JargonFile.

This template is used to identify articles or sections featuring excessive jargon, without enough explanation of concepts and too difficult for readers to understand without a background in the field. The article should be edited to be made simpler, or the presentation of the topic should be explained or reworded.

When adding this template, explain the issue in the edit summary or on the talk page. Without such explanation, editors with the knowledge to fix the issue often cannot address the issue as they do not know why the template was added in the first place.

Usage

This template adds tagged articles to Category:Wikipedia articles that are too technical and Category:Articles needing expert attention, or their dated subcategories.

• date = adds a date. Month name and year like this date=November 2024

Examples

Basic usage

{{Technical|date=November 2024}}

With section parameter

{{Technical|section|date=November 2024}}

With focus on the introduction

{{Technical|introduction|date=November 2024}}

This template supports the "demospace" variable.

Redirects to this template

• {{Jargon}}
• {{Plain English}}
• {{Complex}}
• {{Complicated}}
• {{Gibberish}}
• {{Simplification needed}}
• {{Too much jargon}}
• {{Too specialized}}
• {{Too technical}}

See also

• Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup
  • {{Buzzword}}
  • {{Context}}
  • {{Over-explained}}
  • {{Overly detailed}}
  • {{Technical statement}}, for inline use
  • {{Too abstract}}
• {{JargonFile}}, for articles primarily sourced to the Jargon File

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData documentation for this template used by VisualEditor and other tools.

Technical

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Use this cleanup template to indicate that an article may be too technical for most readers to understand.

Template parameters

This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.

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. Example January 2013 Auto value {{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}	Line	suggested
Talk page section	talk	Section name on the talk page for further discussion	Line	optional
Affected area	1	Text to replace the word "article", usually "section" Example section Auto value section	String	optional
Make template small	small	Enter "left" here to make the template box small and aligned to the left. Example left Auto value left	Line	optional

The above documentation is transcluded from Template:Technical/doc. (edit | history)
Editors can experiment in this template’s sandbox (create | mirror) and testcases (create) pages.
Please add categories to the /doc subpage. Subpages of this template.