Template talk:Contradict

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Now here is a Template you can just apply whenever you don't "get it" after a quick skim-through. No need to air what you personally find self-contradictory at the relevant Talk page. Just paste this tab and move on. Tailored for the after-school hacker who is mildly bored with Wikipedia but unwilling to commit overt vandalism. --Wetman 20:38, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

  • I changed the wording from the sarcastic-sounding "if you can guess which parts" to phrasing that includes a link to the article's talk page, encouraging this use instead. If the template still seems useless to you, you may want to nominate it at WP:TFD. --Tabor 19:06, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Changed reference to talk to be more similar to that used in Template:POV, in order to imply some kind of onus on the person who adds the template to also start the relevant discussion. Arbitrary username 19:56, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

  • Made the template suitable for application to a single section as well, as some articles have contradictions concentrated like that. For example, brick has three different standards in the same section, two of which claim to be universal. Falcon 00:33, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
    • Added the contradict-section template to the template messages page. Falcon 00:35, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Parameters?

Should this template have parameters, such as This article appears to contradict {other article}.? If a consensus is reached, I will revise the template to reflect this. --Richard0612 18:13, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

In my opinion this would be useful, but perhaps it should have its own dedicated template, such as {{contradictother}}? --Tim1988 talk 18:31, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] section parameter

I added a new section parameter to this template that allows it to be used for both sections and entire articles. With this new parameter {{contradict-section}} may no longer be needed. Can be used with other 'about' parameter.

Examples of use:

  • {{contradict|section}}
  • {{contradict|section|about=test}}
  • {{contradict|about=test|section}}

Let me know if you have any other questions or if this causes other issues I am not aware of.--NMajdan•talk 18:54, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The tag contradicts itself

The part about see the discussion on the TALK page, lol. Af648 10:45, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Talk

This template would link to the talk page and the copyeditor would include a section in the talk page talked contradict to specify the contradiction. In other case, the contradict template could be deleted from the article, because one does not know the contradict reason and talk about it. --Mac (talk) 07:31, 14 March 2008 (UTC)