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== No longer necessary ==
== No longer necessary ==
<div style="color:red">'''Please note that as of 28th February 2011 this template is effectively deprecated.'''</div>  Its functionality is now a part of our CSS style sheet, and therefore happens automatically.  '''This template should no longer be used in the main namespace — that is, on "regular" articles.'''
<div style="color:red">'''Please note that as of 28th February 2011 this template is mostly deprecated.'''</div>  The original aim of the template was to forcibly move TOCs to the right side of a page.  Since our CSS now does that automatically, there's not much of a need to use this template.


Nevertheless, in other namespaces, you ''may'' wish to use this template when you have a page with less than the minimum number of sections to trigger an automatic TOC.  This is especially useful in '''forum conversations''', where very ''long'' discussions typically have very ''few'' sections.  If you put {{tl|big toc}} at the top of the forum page, you'll get a bit of navigational help that the system otherwise wouldn't provide.  
You will occasionally see it in use on pages that have lead sections that are longer than the infobox, in order to bring the TOC up higher on the page. But it shouldn't be used on pages with moderate-to-small-sized leads.  Nor should it be used in the main [[namespace]] to create a TOC on a short page. If an ''article'' has only two sections, for example, it doesn't deserve a TOC. A TOC shouldn't extend lower than the last line of the article text.
 
'''To reiterate, however, please don't use with normal articles in the main namespace.''' If an ''article'' has only two sections, for example, it doesn't deserve a TOC.
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