Template talk:Expand section

Template-protected edit request on 15 January 2026

Change You can help by expanding it. to You can help by adding missing information. as the stub template as changed to that. FantasticWikiUser (talk) 19:54, 15 January 2026 (UTC)

 Done—Please check. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:03, 16 January 2026 (UTC)

Issue with dark mode

When the template is viewed in dark mode, only the text changes. The background stays white while the text changes to white, making it difficult to read. LillaRis87 (talk) 12:34, 25 May 2026 (UTC)

Forgot to include, this only happens sometimes, not always LillaRis87 (talk) 12:35, 25 May 2026 (UTC)

Why does this template appear small by default?

I am wondering why the template needs to explicitly be told to enlarge by turning the |small= parameter off. I haven't seen much prior discussion directly related to this matter in the archives. The current behaviour of this template is inconsistent with similar maintenance templates like {{More citations needed section}} as the other template does not make the box small when no parameters are provided. Is there a way we should find a WP:CONSENSUS on this issue? Qwerty123M (talk) 09:13, 3 September 2026 (UTC)

Metatemplate {{Ambox}} supports both the wide format and the small format; wide format is the default. If you want the small format, you have to use the small parameter to override it. Template:Expand section transcludes {{Ambox}}, and contains the following code:

| small = {{{small|left}}}

This allows the user of Expand section to specify their preferred value of param |small=; and if no value is given, then the template defaults to small format, effectively passing |small=left to {{Ambox}}. (For better or worse, it's been that way since at least 2010.) Checking how many ambox-transcluding templates do the same thing, there are three that do, out of 1,300+ templates that transclude Ambox, so only a tiny minority default to small.

That said, you can't just change the default for this template to make it like the others, because there are over 12,000 transclusions of {{Expand section}} in articles, and if you change the default, you will change the appearance of thousands of articles, possibly contrary to what the consensus is at those articles. If you change the default, you would probably need a bot to alter the code in those 12,000 articles to keep them displaying the way they do now. Mathglot (talk) 20:59, 3 September 2026 (UTC)