Template:Globalize/sandbox Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Globalize/sandbox

This is the template sandbox page for Template:Globalize (diff).
See also the companion subpage for test cases.

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Template usage notes

This maintenance templates is intended to attract editors with different viewpoints to edit articles that need additional insight.

This tag should only be applied to articles where global perspectives are reasonably believed to exist (e.g., that people in China have a different view about an idea or situation than people in Germany or South Africa).
If additional reliable sources for a worldwide view cannot be found after a reasonable search, this tag may be removed.
This tag should not be used as a badge of shame or to complain about how to spell words, which measurement units to use, and similar questions of article presentation.
Please explain your concerns on the article's talk page and link to the section title of the discussion you initiate. Otherwise, other editors may remove this tag without further notice.

Usage

Paste this at the top of the affected article or section:

{{Globalize|date=June 2025}}

This code provides the correct date, assumes that your concerns affect the entire article, and assumes that you will promptly explain your concerns on that article's talk page in a new section titled "Globalize."

For instructions on modifying this simplest version of the template code, see the following:

Article or section?: The default word article is replaceable so you can specify whether the whole article or just a section doesn't represent a worldwide view. One or the other must be given if you also wish to specify any countries to which the article currently leans without using a named parameter (which are: 2name=, 3name=, 4name=) to specify the country. Specifying the whole article or just one section is accomplished simply by adding those words as parameters: {{Globalize|article|date=June 2025}} or {{Globalize|section|date=June 2025}}.

Date: The maintenance date tagging parameter 'date=' should be given with a properly formatted ISO date as is common to most maintenance tags. This parameter is used in time-keyed autocategories, if you do not supply the current date, then a bot will add it later.

Link to the correct section of the talk page: As a means of maximizing the likelihood that your concerns will be addressed, you should consider to initiate a talk section detailing your concerns when hanging any maintenance tag. Without such explanations, it may be difficult for editors to understand what concerned you and to figure out whether subsequent changes have addressed your concerns.

Specify the full link prefix through section title. (Capture this off the url after saving your newly inaugurated complaint section works best—you literally can't go wrong and introduce a typo since it's cut and paste.)

This is achieved by adding |discuss=Talk:Article_Name#This_is_section_title.

If you do not explain your concerns on the article's talk page, you may expect this tag to be promptly and justifiably removed as "unexplained" by the first editor who happens to not understand why you added this tag.

Which regions are over-represented?: Country or region names given as a positional parameter are assumed to be links as can be seen in the code snippet: {{{2name|[[{{{2}}}]]}}} The 2name, 3name parameters also affect categorizations, so can be used to display one name and link those to a variant.

Up to three geographical areas covered can also be selected, {{Globalize|article or section|area 1|area 2|area 3}}. For each region, the template will automatically add the page to an appropriate cleanup category, named category:{{{country}}}-centric. If the name of the country differs from the category (for instance, the United Kingdom, but UK-centric) then you can use the 2name, 3name and 4name attributes to modify the displayed name.

Categorization: This template will also categorize tagged articles into Category:Articles with limited geographic scope. To disable all auto-categorisation (such as when used multiple times on the same page tagging various sections), define either inhibit= or nocat= to any value (e.g., |nocat=my cat or |inhibit=1.

Technical note: The first, second, third... positional parameters are equivalent in wikimarkup language to the named parameters 1=, 2=, 3=, ... so far as article links are concerned. However, the two parameters differ in their effects in selecting named autocategories as is covered below. (The best trick ... try either, or both, for many country related names have slight name differences from their category names and therefore you must test (check) for both redlinked article and category names)

simple form

{{Globalize
|{{subst:DATE}}
|discuss=Talk:Article_Name#"This_is_section_title"
| 1= article or section <!-- (defaults to article) -->
| 2= <!-- 1st country or region or  --> 
  | 2name=
}}

full commented form

{{Globalize
|date=
|discuss=|discussion=|talk= <!-- (just one of) Defines link paths to article's talk page SECTION link by title.
-- Define as "Talk:Article_Name#This_is_section_title" ) -->
| 1= article or section <!-- (defaults to article) -->
 <!-- 
  (just one of each pair in: {{{2}}}, {{{3}}}, {{{4}}} or 2name, 3name, 4name)
  These are the countries or regions on which the article is currently overly focused,
  in other words, 'those places the article is biased toward in the complaint
 -->
|  <!-- ({{{2}}}) --> 2= <!-- 1st country or region --> or | 2name=
|  <!-- ({{{3}}}) --> 3= <!-- 2nd country or region --> or | 3name
|  <!-- ({{{4}}}) --> 4= <!-- 3rd country or region --> or | 4name
 <!-- 
(optional category control parameters) -->
| nocat= true or inhibit=true  <!-- define either or both to inhibit auto-categorization into cleanup categories. -->
}}

Location

As with all maintenance templates, this template should be placed below any disambiguation links and above infoboxes, images, and the text of the lead to increase accessibility for users of screen readers.

TemplateData

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

TemplateData for Globalize

Use this cleanup template to indicate that an article is written primarily from the perspective of a particular region of the world.

Template parameters[Edit template data]
This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.
Parameter		Description	Type	Status
Month and year	`date`	The month and year that the template was placed (in full). "{{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}" inserts the current month and year automatically. Example January 2013 Auto value `{{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}`	Line	suggested
Region	`2`	Country or region that the article primarily deals with Example US, the Western world	Line	suggested
Second region	`3`	Second country or region that the article primarily deals with Example UK, Anglophone	Line	optional
Third region	`4`	Third country or region that the article primarily deals with Example Europe, Canada	Line	optional
First region name override	`2name`	Enter text here to override the automatic conversion of some region names (US, UK) with the text entered. Example the US, the UK	Line	optional
Second region name override	`3name`	Enter text here to override the automatic conversion of some region names (US, UK) with the text entered. Example Britain, the West	Line	optional
Third region name override	`4name`	Enter text here to override the automatic conversion of some region names (US, UK) with the text entered. Example the EU, the Anglosphere	Line	optional
Talk page section	`talk` `discuss` `discussion`	Section name on the talk page for further discussion	Line	suggested
Make template small	`small`	Enter "left" here to make the template box small and aligned to the left. Example left Auto value `left`	Line	optional
Scope	`1`	Custom text to describe the area of the article needing attention. Defaults to "article" if blank, and is usually customized to "section". Consider using the {{Globalize section}} template for identical function. Suggested values `section` Default article Example section Auto value `section`	Line	optional
Reason	`reason`	no description	Unknown	optional

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