Template:Coatrack/doc

Template:Coatrack is for articles that primarily may relate to a different subject (coatrack), or to only one aspect rather than the subject as a whole (content forking). A coatrack article is an article that ostensibly discusses the nominal subject, but in reality is a cover for a tangentially related biased subject. A content fork is the creation of multiple separate articles all treating the same subject, which is undesirable when the article is deliberately created to avoid neutral point of view guidelines or the article is redundant with another article.

Usage

To use this template, place {{Coatrack|date=April 2024}} on the article page or talk page in a location that may aid in conveying the message of the template. This template lists articles in Category:Coatrack articles. This template may be used within Template:Articleissues and placement of this template on the article page is guided by Template messages/Cleanup. The following parameters may be specified for this template:

• |date= This template can take an optional date parameter, which will be added by a bot if omitted. For this, use {{Coatrack|date=April 2024}} or {{Coatrack|talk page section name|date=April 2024}}. This will add the page to the category Wikipedia neutral point of view disputes from April 2024.
• |details= The details parameter may be used to provide more details on some of the aspects that should be addressed for the given article.

Using Youth vote in the United States as an example:

{{Coatrack|date=April 2024|details=many of these subsections contain information of a general nature, without many details on how the youth vote is affected}}}}

produces:

This template sorts articles into Category:Wikipedia neutral point of view disputes, or a dated subcategory thereof.

See also

• {{coatrack section}}
• {{synthesis}}
• {{bio-coatrack}}

Wikipedia project pages

• Wikipedia:Accuracy dispute
• Wikipedia:Consensus
• Wikipedia:Dispute resolution
• Wikipedia:Disputed statement
• Wikipedia:Neutral point of view
• Wikipedia:Template messages
• Wikipedia:Template namespace

Templates

Main article: Wikipedia:Template index/Disputes

Disputed factual accuracy

See also: Category:Dispute templates

• 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)

See also: Category:Neutrality templates

• Boxes:
  • {{POV}} Article, {{POV section}} Section, {{POV lead}} Lead section
  • {{POV map}} Map
  • {{Systemic bias}} Article

• Inline:
  • {{Lopsided}} Statement
  • {{POV statement}} Statement