Template:Coatrack
 | This article may primarily relate to a different subject, or place undue weight on a particular aspect rather than the subject as a whole. (January 2026) |
Template documentationTemplate:Coatrack is for articles that primarily may relate to a different subject (coatrack), or to only one aspect rather than the subject as a whole (content forking). A coatrack article is an article that ostensibly discusses the nominal subject, but in reality is a cover for a tangentially related biased subject. A content fork is the creation of multiple separate articles all treating the same subject, which is undesirable when the article is deliberately created to avoid neutral point of view guidelines or the article is redundant with another article.
Usage
To use this template, place {{Coatrack|date=January 2026}} on the article page or talk page in a location that may aid in conveying the message of the template. This template lists articles in Category:Coatrack articles. This template may be used within Template:Articleissues and placement of this template on the article page is guided by Template messages/Cleanup. The following parameters may be specified for this template:
|date=This template can take an optional date parameter, which will be added by a bot if omitted. For this, use{{Coatrack|date=January 2026}}or{{Coatrack|talk page section name|date=January 2026}}. This will add the page to the category Wikipedia neutral point of view disputes from January 2026.|details=The details parameter may be used to provide more details on some of the aspects that should be addressed for the given article.
- Using Youth vote in the United States as an example:
{{Coatrack|date=January 2026|details=many of these subsections contain information of a general nature, without many details on how the youth vote is affected}}}}
produces:
| This article may primarily relate to a different subject, or place undue weight on a particular aspect rather than the subject as a whole. Specifically, many of these subsections contain information of a general nature, without many details on how the youth vote is affected. (January 2026) |
This template sorts articles into Category:Wikipedia neutral point of view disputes, or a dated subcategory thereof.
See also
- {{coatrack section}}
- {{synthesis}}
- {{bio-coatrack}}
Wikipedia project pages
- Wikipedia:Accuracy dispute
- Wikipedia:Consensus
- Wikipedia:Dispute resolution
- Wikipedia:Disputed statement
- Wikipedia:Neutral point of view
- Wikipedia:Template messages
- Wikipedia:Template namespace
Templates
- Main article: Wikipedia:Template index/Disputes
Disputed factual accuracy
- Boxes:
- {{Disputed}} Article, {{Dispute about|what}}, {{Disputed section}} Section
- {{Disputed tag}} For disputing recent promotions or amendments of policies and guidelines
- {{Under discussion}} For use on project pages (e.g., policies and guidelines), not on articles
- Inline:
- {{Dubious}} and {{Disputed inline}} Statement
- {{Under discussion inline}} Statements on project pages
Both accuracy and POV
- Boxes:
- {{Controversial}} Talk page
Disputed neutrality (POV)
- Boxes:
- {{POV}} Article, {{POV section}} Section, {{POV lead}} Lead section
- {{POV map}} Map
- {{Systemic bias}} Article
- Inline:
- {{Lopsided}} Statement
- {{POV statement}} Statement
