Template:Expand

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{{Expand}} lets you quickly label an article as one needing to be expanded.

{{Expand|width|leftmargin}} is the format for the optional variables 1 and 2. The default values are width = 80% and leftmargin=10%. Expand also adds the article to Category:Articles that need to be expanded. Articles tagged with this template are automatically added to Category:Articles that need to be expanded.

Examples

If you use {{Expand}} without any parameters

{{Expand}}

which gives:

Please help improve this article by expanding it. Further information might be found on the talk page.

To automatically set the width to the minimum width needed

{{Expand|auto}}

which gives:

Please help improve this article by expanding it. Further information might be found on the talk page.

To change the left margin to 5% and use auto width

{{Expand|auto|5%}}

which gives:

Please help improve this article by expanding it. Further information might be found on the talk page.

One last example of left margin of 30px and width of 60%

{{Expand|60%|30px}}

which gives:

Please help improve this article by expanding it. Further information might be found on the talk page.

Notes

Articles tagged with this template are automatically added to Category:Articles that need to be expanded.

See also

• MeritBadgeDotOrg:Article message boxes
• Article Message_Box usage
• Expand2 → Same message in a narrower format to fit smaller places
• Stub
• Workpage

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