Template:Editorializing/doc

This is a documentation subpage for Editorializing. It contains usage information, categories, and other content that is not part of the original template.

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.