Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Wikipedia technical issues and templates
The following discussions are requested to have community-wide attention:
For years, tweets have commonly been included in articles using the Tweet template, which allows for the tweet's content to be displayed within the article in an easy to digest format. The template allows for the name, handle, and photograph of the tweeter to be included with the quote of their tweet. It provides important context to the quote in an easy to understand format, allowing for people to quickly understand that this was a twitter post, rather than a quote from somewhere else. Twitter is commonly used by celebrities, political figures, and other notable people to disperse information quickly and directly to their followers. Twitter's tweets are unique, short messages, so the source of the post is often relevant information, especially when a tweet has a major enough impact on an entity that the tweet itself is notable enough to end up on a Wikipedia page.
Their have been some discussions about the relevance of this template in the past, and an RfD was held in May 2024 with a consensus to keep it as it was at the time.
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