Template:Duplication/doc

Usage

This template automatically adds articles to Category:Articles in need of internal merging or Category:Duplicate articles.

Basic usage: {{Duplication|date=July 2026}}

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}}

• 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}}

• dupe2 — same as dupe, just allows for an additional section/article to be linked.

  Example: {{Duplication|dupe=Article name|dupe2=#Section name}}

TemplateData

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

TemplateData for Duplication

Use this cleanup template to indicate that an article or section duplicates the scope of other articles or sections.

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
Duplicate article or section	dupe	The article or section that this article or section duplicates. This also adds this article to Category:Duplicate articles. Example Microsoft Windows	Page name	suggested
Duplicate article or section 2	dupe2	A second article or section that this article or section duplicates Example #Windows 10	Page name	optional
Talk page discussion	discuss	Talk page and section where a relevant discussion is taking place Example Talk:Microsoft#Duplicate information	Page name	optional
Affected area	1	Text to replace the word "article", usually "section" Example section Auto value section	Line	optional
Section?	section	Enter any text here to replace the word "article" with "section". Example y Auto value y	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". Example y Auto value y	Line	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

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}} - DEPRECATED
• {{Merge to}} - DEPRECATED
• {{Merge from}} - new discussions use "afd" parameter
• {{AfDM}} - replaces "Merge to" for new discussions
• {{Afd-merge to}} - merges with consensus that have not been implemented yet, in the new system
• {{Being merged}}
• {{Merge portions from}}
• {{Cleanup merge}}
• {{Copied}}
• {{Merged-to}}
• {{Merged-from}}
• {{Old merge}}
• {{Duplication}}

Section moving

• {{Section move from}}
• {{Section move to}}