Template talk:More citations needed section

message: Template:Refimprovesect and Template:Ref improve section are fully-protected double redirects to Template:More citations needed section that should be changed to a direct redirect. TimBentley (talk) 16:57, 7 April 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Done --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 23:00, 7 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Protected edit request on 7 April 2019 

message: Please either:
* remove the invocation of , or
* add a new optional (named or numbered) parameter (no default) with one required parameter consisting of a text string, which, if present, invokes  on the value of the text string.
Currently, the  is always invoked with the default value, which is to say, the article title.  For most sections within an article, this is both useless and unhelpful, enlarges and clutters the template, and may lead well-meaning newbies down a garden path.  
Ideally, one could make the text string param optional, with some code to grab the name of the section header title of the lowest section within which the template is located, and use that as a default param value if no text string was given, but that seems a bit ambitious. As a first cut, we should require entry of a text string param, and if either the optional param or the required param value is missing, then the invocation of  should be suppressed.
I imagine this was probably inherited from , where it is definitely useful; but it isn't here. Mathglot (talk) 20:17, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done for now:  must be changed to be able to implement this. — JJMC89 (T·C) 22:22, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
replies: text:  JJMC89, agreed. I had completely forgotten about this old request, ended up coming back to it via another route, and posted about it elsewhere, which circled me back here again to invite discussion about it. See next section below.  (P.S. in the interim, I have gained template permissions, so could implement the change to  myself; however, there's no hurry, and the feedback request discussion linked below should be step one before any of this happens.) Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 01:12, 23 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template-protected edit request on 15 June 2019 

message: This has been implemented and is in sandbox testing and appears to be working. Please see this discussion. If no objections in around a week or so, I'll move this live. Adding JJMC89. Mathglot (talk) 09:50, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  In sandbox testing 

message: Your feedback would be welcome at this discussion concerning the impact of using  in templates that have "section" variants, such as , and others. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 01:07, 23 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Feedback sought in discussion about find sources in reference templates 

message: Functionality for the new 'find' param similar to that mentioned above at #Template-protected edit request on 15 June 2019, was first implemented at Template:Unreferenced. The same feature is proposed for this template, and is now open for discussion so the same functionality can be implemented in . Please see discussion here. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 06:35, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: . Functionality update of both templates is now complete. Doc pages done. Mathglot (talk) 08:06, 15 July 2020 (UTC)
replies: text:  The main template was augmented to support unquoted search, per a request in one of the related templates, which I'll link, when I remember where it was, and this template was tweaked to pass the new param. Testcases and doc updated in the main template. Mathglot (talk) 06:09, 4 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Add param 'find' to control display of Find sources 

message: This template was reverted back to version 968338803 due to an error report and discussion here: Template talk:More citations needed#Error?. 
Additional testcases have been added for this template and show the problem existing in the previous revision as well, but it could be the non-section version of the template. Please follow the discussion above. Mathglot (talk) 19:51, 18 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reversion per reported error 

message: Template:More citations needed section has been listed at Templates for discussion (nomination), but was protected so could not be tagged. Please add:

to the top of the page to complete the nomination. Thank you. Favre1fan93 (talk) 17:07, 28 July 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Elli (talk | contribs) 19:02, 28 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit request to complete TfD nomination 

message: Template:More citations needed section has been listed at Templates for discussion (nomination), but it was protected, so it could not be tagged. Please add:

to the top of the page to complete the nomination. Thank you. 🐶 EpicPupper (he/him | talk) 21:58, 4 April 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Terasail[✉️] 22:58, 4 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit request to complete TfD nomination 

message: Please remove the template notice about the merger. I have closed the discussion. You can remove the following: 
 ~ 🦝 Shushugah (he/him • talk) 13:56, 11 April 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: * Pppery * it has begun... 23:59, 11 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template-protected edit request on 11 April 2022