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 | Articles tagged with this template may be offered to newcomers as a suggested edit task on their newcomer homepage, inviting them to copyedit the article. |
Usage
This template tags a section for copy editing and should be added at the start of a section, below the section title.{{Copy edit section|date=September 2026}}
- This template takes the optional parameter
|for=which can be used to explain what issues need to be addressed, e.g.|for=consistent spelling. - This template takes the optional parameter
|date=, which a bot will add for you if you omit it. - This template will auto-categorise tagged articles into Category:All Wikipedia articles needing copy edit.
- This template is a self-reference.
- Please do not subst: this template.
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Template data
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TemplateData for Copy edit section
This template tags a section for copy editing and should be added at the start of a section, below the section title.
| Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| for | for reason | The reason this tag has been placed. | String | optional |
| talk | talk | The name of a section on the talk page for discussion of this problem.
| String | optional |
| date | date | The date this tag was added. E.g. 'January 2014' NOT 'jan14'
| Date | required |