Yellow = templates do not match.


Top template: after 24 August 2021 fixes (live template)

Bottom template: old template (sandbox)


|section=
This article duplicates the scope of other articles. Please discuss this issue and help introduce a summary style to the article.
This article duplicates the scope of other articles. Please discuss this issue on the talk page and edit it to conform with Wikipedia's Manual of Style.
|section=|small=
This article duplicates the scope of other articles. Please discuss this issue and help introduce a summary style to the article.
This article duplicates the scope of other articles. Please discuss this issue on the talk page and edit it to conform with Wikipedia's Manual of Style.


Everything fine so far. However...


|section=something
This section duplicates the scope of other articles. Please discuss this issue and help introduce a summary style to the section by replacing the section with a link and a summary or by splitting the content into a new article.
This section duplicates the scope of other sections. Please discuss this issue on the talk page and edit it to conform with Wikipedia's Manual of Style by replacing the section with a link and a summary of the repeated material, or by spinning off the repeated text into an article in its own right.


As you can see, the old template used to force itself into small mode when "section" was used. However...


|section=something|small=
This section duplicates the scope of other articles. Please discuss this issue and help introduce a summary style to the section by replacing the section with a link and a summary or by splitting the content into a new article.
This section duplicates the scope of other sections. Please discuss this issue on the talk page and edit it to conform with Wikipedia's Manual of Style by replacing the section with a link and a summary of the repeated material, or by spinning off the repeated text into an article in its own right.


(Ignore the use of the word "sections" instead of "articles", which is also in the previous example.)

This shows that in the old template, using "section" with a "small" that exists but doesn't contain "left" used to add the extra fix text but not make the template small. This odd discrepancy in behaviour with the previous example has been fixed (since "section" no longer makes the template small at all).


|small=
This article duplicates the scope of other articles. Please discuss this issue and help introduce a summary style to the article.
This article duplicates the scope of other articles. Please discuss this issue on the talk page and edit it to conform with Wikipedia's Manual of Style.
|small=something
This article duplicates the scope of other articles. Please discuss this issue and help introduce a summary style to the article.
This article duplicates the scope of other articles. Please discuss this issue on the talk page and edit it to conform with Wikipedia's Manual of Style.
|small=left
This article duplicates the scope of other articles. Please discuss this issue and help introduce a summary style to the article.
This article duplicates the scope of other articles. Please discuss this issue on the talk page and edit it to conform with Wikipedia's Manual of Style.
|section=|small=something
This article duplicates the scope of other articles. Please discuss this issue and help introduce a summary style to the article.
This article duplicates the scope of other articles. Please discuss this issue on the talk page and edit it to conform with Wikipedia's Manual of Style.
|section=|small=left
This article duplicates the scope of other articles. Please discuss this issue and help introduce a summary style to the article.
This article duplicates the scope of other articles. Please discuss this issue on the talk page and edit it to conform with Wikipedia's Manual of Style.


Using "small" on its own or with an empty "section" encountered no issues. However...


|section=something|small=left
This section duplicates the scope of other articles. Please discuss this issue and help introduce a summary style to the section.
This section duplicates the scope of other sections. Please discuss this issue on the talk page and edit it to conform with Wikipedia's Manual of Style by replacing the section with a link and a summary of the repeated material, or by spinning off the repeated text into an article in its own right.


In the old template, using "small=left" with a filled in "section" used to include all the extra fix text in the small template, making it rather large. This has been fixed.