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This disambiguation page may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards and to cover its primary topic in a broad-concept article format. Please split any items not related to the primary topic into a separate page. Editing help is available.
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This is the template sandbox page for Template:Broad-concept article (diff).
See also the companion subpage for test cases.
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Contents

  • 1 Usage
  • 2 See also
  • 3 TemplateData
  • 4 See also

Usage

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This template is used on disambiguation pages that do not have "(disambiguation)" in their page titles and are terms that may be described by a broad-concept article that has yet to be written. When such an article is created, it will be about the primary topic. It categorizes pages into Category:Disambiguation pages to be converted to broad concept articles.

When the new primary-topic article is created in another namespace, such as draftspace or userspace, and when it is ready for mainspace, then it should be moved to the title of the page that is tagged with this template. Before that action, if the page tagged with this template holds unrelated topics, then they must be moved to a page with "(disambiguation)" in its title. All topics that are related to the primary topic may be described or listed in the new article, and not listed on a disambiguation page.

If unrelated topics do exist and become part of a Title (disambiguation) page, then the primary topic would be linked at the top of that page.

See also

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  • Help:How to move a page
  • Wikipedia:Starting an article
  • Template:Split and dab


TemplateData

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

TemplateData for Broad-concept article

Labels an article as a very broad concept and directs other unrelated uses to the primary topic to be added to a disambiguation page

Template parameters[Edit template data]

This template has custom formatting.

ParameterDescriptionTypeStatus
Month and year addeddate

no description

Example
September 2018
Auto value
{{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}
Stringoptional

See also

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  • {{Disambiguation with potential}} - Another template for marking a disambiguation page as potentially being worthy of an article, not necessarily a broad-concept article.
The above documentation is transcluded from Template:Broad-concept article/doc. (edit | history)
Editors can experiment in this template's sandbox (edit | diff) and testcases (edit) pages.
Add categories to the /doc subpage. Subpages of this template.
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Last edited on 19 August 2025, at 01:21

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