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{{Missing}}

Purpose

This template, or its more strongly worded sibling {{must include}}, 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

This template:

Categorizes articles into Category:Articles to be expanded
Is a self-reference
Cannot be substituted

Syntax

{{Missing information|description|date=January 2025}} produces:

This article is missing information about description. Please expand the article to include this information. Further details may exist on the talk page. (January 2025)

{{Missing information|section|description|date=January 2025}} produces:

This section is missing information about description. Please expand the section to include this information. Further details may exist on the talk page. (January 2025)

{{Missing information|description|talksection=talksection|date=January 2025}} produces:

This article is missing information about description. Please expand the article to include this information. Further details may exist on the talk page. (January 2025)

Parameters

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 is a message tag, placed on an article to inform editors that 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.

Template parameters
This template prefers block formatting of parameters.
Parameter		Description	Type	Status
Scope	`1`	One or two words indicating the area of the page that lacks the information. Acceptable values are "article" (default), "table", "list" or "section". Example article Auto value `article`	String	required
What's missing	`2`	A phrase explaining what is missing Example information about cultural impact Auto value	Unbalanced wikitext	required
Talk section	`talksection`	Name of a valid anchor in the article talk page noting this issue. All headings are automatically valid anchors. Example Cultural impact missing	String	required
Date (MMMM YYYY)	`date`	Date of insertion of this tag in MMMM YYYY format, i.e. full month name followed by four-digit year. Example January 2032	Date	optional

Boxes:
- {{Disputed}} For disputing entire article
- {{Dispute about|what}} For disputing part of an article
- {{Disputed section}} For disputing a section in an article
- {{Disputed tag}} For disputing recent promotions or amendments of policies and guidelines
- {{Under discussion}} For use on project pages (e.g., policies and guidelines), not on articles

Inline:
- {{Dubious}}, and {{Disputed inline}} Statement
- {{Under discussion inline}} Statements on project pages

Both accuracy and POV

Boxes:
- {{Controversial}} Talk page

Disputed neutrality (POV)

Wiki

v t e Citation and verifiability article maintenance templates
Sourcing	{{Circular}} {{Better sources needed}} {{Dubious}} {{Excessive citations}} {{Further reading cleanup}} {{More citations needed}} {{More citations needed section}} {{More footnotes needed}} {{No footnotes}} {{No reliable sources}} {{No significant coverage}} {{One source}} {{One source section}} {{Only primary sources}} {{NRIS only}} {{Primary sources}} {{Primary sources section}} {{Religious text primary}} {{Self-published}} {{Self-reference cleanup}} {{Self-sourcing examples}} {{Refexample section}} {{Sources exist}} {{Text-source}} {{Third-party}} {{Unreferenced}} {{Unreferenced section}} {{Unreferenced category}} {{Unreliable sources}} {{Unreliable sources section}} {{User-generated}}
BLP-specific	{{BLP unreferenced}} {{BLP unreferenced section}} {{BLP primary sources}} {{BLP self-published}} {{BLP sources}} {{BLP sources section}} {{BLP IMDb-only refimprove}} {{BLP IMDb refimprove}} {{BLP no footnotes}} {{BLP more footnotes needed}} {{BLP one source}}
Topic specific	{{Localist}} {{Media IMDb refimprove}} {{More medical citations needed}} {{More science citations needed}} {{Neologism}} {{Science review}} {{Unreferenced law}} {{Unreferenced-law section}} {{Unreferenced medical section}}
Dispute-related	{{Cite check}} {{Cite check section}} {{Content}} {{Disputed}} {{Dispute about}} {{Disputed section}} {{Disputed chem}} {{Disputed list}} {{Disputed map}} {{Expert needed}} {{Hoax}} {{Original research}} {{Original research section}} {{Speculation}} {{Speculation section}} {{Synthesis}} {{Verifiability}} {{Verify sources}}
Citation improvements	{{Citation style}} {{Citations broken}} {{Cleanup bare URLs}} {{Format footnotes}} {{Full citations needed}} {{Ibid}} {{Page numbers improve}} {{Page numbers needed}} {{Shallow references}}
General advice	Citing sources Reliable sources Maintenance template removal Citation needed Find sources Combining sources Referencing styles

Inline cleanup tags

Attribution

Clarity

Miscellaneous

Neutrality

Precision

{{By how much}} {{Definition}} {{Definition needed}} {{Example needed}} {{Example needed span}} {{Explain}} {{How}} {{How often}} {{Misquoted}} {{Quantify}} {{Specify}} {{Vague}} {{When}} {{Where}} {{Which}} {{Who else}} {{Why}} {{Year needed}}
Excessive	{{Overly detailed inline}} {{Duplication span}} {{Importance inline}} {{Relevance inline}} {{Undue weight inline}} {{Globalize inline}} {{Infobox clutter}}

Time-sensitivity

Verifiability

Dubious	{{Contradictory inline}} {{Disputed inline}} {{Dubious}} {{Dubious span}} {{Inconsistent}} {{Needs independent confirmation}} {{Speculation inline}}
Bare URLs	{{Bare URL inline}} {{Bare URL non-HTML}} {{Bare URL AV media}} {{Bare URL PDF}} {{Bare URL image}} {{Bare URL DOC}} {{Bare URL plain text}} {{Bare URL spreadsheet}}
Incomplete or broken citation	{{Author incomplete}} {{Author missing}} {{Date missing}} {{Dead link}} {{Edition needed}} {{Episode needed}} {{Full citation needed}} {{Incomplete short citation}} {{ISBN missing}} {{Moved resource}} {{Page needed}} {{Permanent dead link}} {{Place missing}} {{Publisher missing}} {{Season needed}} {{Time needed}} {{Title incomplete}} {{Title missing}} {{Unused source}} {{Volume needed}} {{Year missing}}
Missing or problematic reference	{{Additional citation needed}} {{Better source needed}} {{Better source needed example}} {{Check quotation}} {{Chronology citation needed}} {{Circular reference}} {{Citation needed}} {{Citation needed span}} {{Citation not found}} {{Close paraphrasing inline}} {{COI source}} {{Deprecated inline}} {{Excessive citations inline}} {{Failed verification}} {{Failed verification span}} {{Image reference needed}} {{Irrelevant citation}} {{Medical citation needed}} {{Medical citation needed span}} {{Nonspecific}} {{Not verified in body}} {{Obsolete source}} {{Page range too broad}} {{Primary source inline}} {{Promotional source}} {{Quote without source}} {{Request quotation}} {{Request quotation span}} {{Retracted}} {{Scientific citation needed}} {{Self-published inline}} {{Tertiary source inline}} {{Third-party inline}} {{Unreliable fringe source}} {{Unreliable medical source}} {{Unreliable source?}} {{Verify quote}} {{Verify source}}

Wording

General advice

Toolbox

Templates

Welcome	{{subst:Welcome}} {{subst:Welcomeh}} {{subst:Welcome-anon}} {{subst:W-graphical-anon}} {{subst:Welcome-anon-unconstructive}} {{subst:Welcome-anon-npov}} {{subst:welcome-t}} {{subst:thanks}}
Vandalism	{{subst:uw-vandalism1}} {{subst:uw-vandalism2}} {{subst:uw-vandalism3}} {{subst:uw-vandalism4}} {{subst:uw-vandalism4im}}
Content removal	{{subst:uw-delete1}} {{subst:uw-delete2}} {{subst:uw-delete3}} {{subst:uw-delete4}} {{subst:uw-delete4im}}
Check	{{subst:Copyvio\|url=source}} {{Db\|...}} {{Di-no license}} {{Di-no source}}
Dispute	{{Citation needed}} {{Controversial}} {{Disputed}} {{Fringe theories}} {{POV}} {{Unreferenced section}} {{Promotional}} {{Multiple issues}}
Delete	{{subst:afd}} {{subst:cfd}} {{ffd}} {{mfd}} {{subst:rfd}} {{subst:tfd}} {{subst:proposed deletion}}

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