Template:Expand Spanish

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This template may be used to mark articles that have counterparts in Spanish Wikipedia that are better than in English Wikipedia. These articles may be improved by translating content from the original Spanish.

Usage

To mark an article, tag it with

{{Expand Spanish|Spanish article title|date=November 2024}}

This template adds articles to the category Category:Articles needing translation from Spanish Wikipedia. See #Categorization below.

The template should be placed atop the article page along with other maintenance templates.

Parameters

The article title is required; all named parameters are optional:

• |1=ARTICLE – title of the article on Spanish Wikipedia. This is required.
• |section=yes – changes notice to "This section may be expanded..." (default: 'article')
• |date=November 2024 – set by bot if omitted.

Topics and categorization

This template categorizes articles into categories. Basic categorization is into: ⟶ Category:Articles needing translation from Spanish Wikipedia. Usage of parameters fa and topic define subcategories.

See also

• WP:CWW, policy which governs copying and translating articles from other language Wikipedias
• WP:TFOLWP, describes required attribution when adding translated content to an article
• Wikipedia:Translation, general info
• Help:Translation, a how-to page about how to copy and translate text from a Wikipedia foreign language article into English.
• Wikipedia:Pages needing translation into English
• {{Expand language}}, parent template
• {{Translated page}}, may be added to the Talk page to provide supplemental translation attribution
• {{Proofreader needed}}, may be added to the article page to request assistance after translation from a given language
• Random article needing expansion from Spanish Wikipedia
• Category:Articles needing translation from Spanish Wikipedia
• Category:Wikipedia articles needing cleanup after translation from Spanish
• Category:Wikipedia translation templates
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Intertranswiki, WikiProject for translating content from non-English Wikipedias
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Languages, general WikiProject for languages

The above documentation is transcluded from Template:Expand Spanish/doc. (edit | history)
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