Wikipedia talk:Contents box

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Article merged: See old talk-page here –  imis ☂  14:53, 28 November 2009 (UTC)

Question: How to Disable TOC
Is there a way of suppressing the automatic creation of a contents box ? Some articles it is not relevant or suitable, and so better off left out. I'm not talking about the hide/show. The Yeti 11:55, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

Answer: How to Disable TOC
For each page with at least four headings, a table of contents (TOC) is automatically generated from the section headings unless the magic word  (with two underscores on either side of the word) is added to the article's wikitext.

Discussion? Resolution? Sunshine?
While at first I laughed over the (un-intentional, I'm sure) weaselly sound of the second-to-last sentence in the article, I see a need for transparency. Where were these attitudes discussed? What resolution shall we expect? How is the participation of the community being fostered? Is this a Project page, or, some developer's closely guarded feature? 68.123.40.71 02:04, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

How to make the table of contents visible?
I couldn't find anything in the article about how to make the table of contents of an article visible when it is not. How about adding it? Here's an example of a talk page with no visible (to me) table of contents: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Nuclear_weapon_design

Background: I was looking for information about this because for the last couple of months or so, I can never see the table of contents on any talk page. I don't know whether tables of contents have been phased out on talk pages, but I assume not, as they are useful (or so I thought). Maybe there is something wrong with my computer, I don't know. Polar Apposite (talk) 01:18, 24 July 2023 (UTC)