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The example

{{Dubious|K%5BX%5D is NOT integral}}

seems to be faulty, as it produces

^{[dubious – discuss]}

—DIV (120.18.88.32 (talk) 14:50, 11 October 2018 (UTC))[reply]

Still not working. Result in 2024 is

^{[dubious – discuss]}

OK, technically it's working, but it lacked a proper explanation or context.

I have expounded on the issue now in the documentation. —DIV (1.145.112.83 (talk) 14:22, 19 April 2024 (UTC))[reply]

Please add info. boxes at the bottom of the page, like at Template:Dubious. —DIV (120.18.237.87 (talk) 00:09, 27 February 2019 (UTC))[reply]

@Jc86035:
I was having trouble using this template, you created. Might be me, but I think the syntax needs more explaining and maybe more examples.

Specificity, the text I'm spanning went right off the right side of the page, thus:

"[Dubious - [[Talk:page name#TEXT, TEXT TEXT yada, had, yada.|discuss]]"

Using this syntax:

{{Dubious-span|TEXT, TEXT TEXT yada, yada, yada.|date=June 2020}}

Y Fixed
Aha! I left out "text=" before TEXT, TEXT TEXT yada, yada, yada. It was after 3 AM here though … ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I think you need a sample template that dummies like me can copy and paste where they need. Like:

{{Dubious-span |text=dubious TEXT, TEXT TEXT yada, yada, yada.|date=June 2020}}

Regards, 220 of ^ßorg 18:12, 23 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, documentation is very poor. Especially writing "Dubious" instead of "Dubious-span"  :-(

Your contribution helps :-)

I have adapted it at Template:Dubious_span/doc#Example_of_usage.

—DIV (1.145.112.83 (talk) 13:47, 19 April 2024 (UTC))[reply]

I've made three main changes to the documentation now:

• added an adapted version of your example;
• defined "reason" as a (previously undocumented) parameter; and
• elaborated on escaping 'special' characters occurring in the section name specified for discussion on the Talk page.

No doubt more work is needed, but I hope this helps a bit.

—DIV (1.145.112.83 (talk) 14:28, 19 April 2024 (UTC))[reply]

I don't know if the originally created template by Jc86035 had not adapted to it, or if later changes glitched it, but if you use this template and the span text includes a wikilink, it screws up.

{{{Dubious span|[[apples]] and oranges}} renders as apples and dates^{[dubious – [[Template talk:Dubious span#apples and dates|discuss]]]}

You have an extra opening brace, but no matter.

{{Dubious span|[[apples]] and oranges}}

currently renders as

apples and oranges^{[dubious – [[Template talk:Dubious span#apples and oranges|discuss]]]}

Here the problem is not in the text, but in the link to the Talk page.

{{Dubious span|text=[[apples]] and oranges|1=Fruit???}}

fixes it:

apples and oranges^{[dubious – discuss]}

as does

{{Dubious span|Fruit???|text=[[apples]] and oranges}}

apples and oranges^{[dubious – discuss]}

—DIV (1.145.112.83 (talk) 13:53, 19 April 2024 (UTC))[reply]