Template:Rename section

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If the title of a Wikipedia page section is not appropriately named to reflect its contents you may place this template at the top of the section. This template adds a banner stating the problem at the top of the section, and also adds its tagged articles to Category:Wikipedia articles with sections named inappropriately.

Usage

{{Rename section|date=September 2025}} or {{Rename section|date=Month Year|reason=Your explanation here}}

Parameters

date: The date of adding the template may be used as the first parameter, in the form of Month Year.
talk: The title of the talk page entry about the issue if you started one.
reason: You may use the |reason= parameter to provide a short explanation describing the issue directly within the template, instead of, or in addition to the talk parameter.

Template data

If the title of a Wikipedia page section is not appropriately named to reflect its contents you may place this template at the top of the section. This template adds a banner stating the problem at the top of the section, and also adds its tagged articles to Category:Wikipedia articles with sections named inappropriately

Template parameters[Edit template data]
This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.
Parameter		Description	Type	Status
talksection	`talksection` `talk` `discuss`	The name of a section on the talk page to discuss the issue. Do not include the hash (#) symbol Example Name_of_section	String	suggested
reason	`reason`	A brief explanation for why the tag has been placed	String	optional
section	`section`	The number of the section in question. This can be found by clicking the edit button next to the section title. The section number is displayed after &section= in the URL	Number	suggested
date	`date`	The date this tag was added. E.g., "January 2013" NOT "jan13" Example January 2013 Auto value `{{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}`	Date	required

Redirects

The following templates are redirects to this template and will display the same message:

{{Inappropriate section title}}

Template:Rename section

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Usage

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Template data

Redirects

See also

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