Template:Editorializing
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Inline tag for sentences where the editor's voice intrudes on neutral encyclopaedic prose: opinion, emphasis, dramatic framing, or judgemental adjectives presented as fact.
Sits between {{Peacock term}} (undue praise specifically) and {{Original research}} (synthesis or interpretation not in sources). Editorialising is the editor having a voice when they should not.
Usage
The eradication campaign was, of course, doomed from the start.{{Editorialising}}
Renders: The eradication campaign was, of course, doomed from the start.[editorialising?]
With a date:
{{Editorialising|date=May 2026}}
Parameters
date: optional. Free text, conventionally "Month YYYY". Surfaces in the rendered tag as a muted suffix.
Behaviour
- Mainspace pages tagged with this template are added to Category:Pages with editorialising.
- Pages outside mainspace are not categorised.
What to look for
Common patterns that warrant the tag:
- Editor-voice adverbs and conjunctions: "clearly", "obviously", "of course", "needless to say", "interestingly", "remarkably", "notably", "importantly".
- Editor-voice phrases: "it is worth noting that", "it should be remembered that", "the truth is", "in fact" used for emphasis rather than contrast.
- Judgemental adjectives presented as fact: "misguided", "flawed", "elegant", "robust", "powerful", "comprehensive", "striking".
- Dramatic framing: tour-guide constructions, short-sentence lists for rhetorical effect, "nobody has studied this" refrains, "of particular note".
- False logical connectors: "thus", "therefore", "hence" used without an actual logical chain.
- Causal language for correlations the sources do not establish.
When not to use
- The wording is praise specifically: use
{{Peacock term}}. - The sentence makes a synthetic claim not in sources: use
{{Original research}}. - The wording is vague rather than slanted: use
{{Clarify}}. - A specific factual claim is missing a source: use
{{Citation needed}}. - The opinion is attributed to a named author or source. Attributed opinion is not editorialising.