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This page has been tagged {{broad-concept article}}. I'd be willing to chip in, but I have a few points to bring up:

1. There's already a draft named "Draft:Example", but it's an example of a draft, not a draft of an article named "Example". So instead, I suppose drafting should take place at a different draft name like, say, "Example (1)" or in someone's userspace sandbox.
   • For reference, {{DraftChecker}} says: * There is a draft named Example. There's also a banner when editing the page thanks to {{Draft at}}.
2. What are some comparable broad-concept articles?
   • The best I can think of are Particular, Abstract and concrete, Abstraction, Generalization, Idea, Model, Concept, Design, and Paradigm
   • Meanwhile, these are disambiguations: Demonstration, Exemplar, Meaning, Detail, Context, Thing, Generality, and Trope
3. What should the article look like and what sources should it draw from?
   • To start, I notice the above deal with metaphysics, linguistics, cognition, and a bit of epistemology and ontology, as well as philosophy in general of course
4. Coincidentally, I'm also drafting Exempli gratia, if anyone's interested in contributing to that

FYI @Duckmather (since you added the tag)

— W.andrea (talk) 03:58, 22 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

1. Yes! This could be a great article.

2. can we somehow change the image used for the Suggested Article banner at the top? The broom illustration doesn't seem to indicate the goal very well. 70.67.252.144 (talk) 07:24, 8 June 2025 (UTC)Reply

Regarding the image, you're talking about Template:Broad-concept article, yeah? You can suggest the change on its talk page and/or the relevant WikiProject talk page (Disambiguation). I think an image with a pencil writing on a page would be good, similar to commons:File:Memo_icon.svg. — W.andrea (talk) 11:34, 8 June 2025 (UTC)Reply

@W.andrea well, any progress since? I’m just curious. BorgQueen (talk) 23:30, 18 October 2025 (UTC)Reply

Yes, I went ahead and changed the icon myself. Or did you mean to reply to the top-level thread? — W.andrea (talk) 23:42, 18 October 2025 (UTC)Reply

@W.andrea I meant the broad-concept article on Example. BorgQueen (talk) 23:46, 18 October 2025 (UTC)Reply

No, no progress. Myself, I'm really not sure what an article would look like. I mean, I'm not aware of any scholarship on the concept of an example myself, though this isn't my field. — W.andrea (talk) 23:47, 18 October 2025 (UTC)Reply

@W.andrea There must be some scholarly sources on the concept, I believe… Anyway, I was curious because I was considering to create such an article or two myself—but broad concept articles are certainly hard to write, aren’t they. BorgQueen (talk) 23:52, 18 October 2025 (UTC)Reply

@W.andrea, @BorgQueen, and a ping in spirit for our IP friend, may they collectively rest in piece: I took a very small crack at this topic some time ago. There's nothing there but one particularly valuable source, but from the cursory searches I did I am quite convinced there is more, and I plan to return to this one day. I remember "worked examplesworked example", dealing specifically with the analysis of examples used for the purpose of teaching the concepts they represent, having a couple papers on it. Snowmanonahoe (talk · contribs · typos) 04:39, 4 March 2026 (UTC)Reply

But if you two haven't tried already, searching for sources on this topic is infuriating, because, as I'm sure you can imagine, the word "example" is extremely common. Snowmanonahoe (talk · contribs · typos) 04:42, 4 March 2026 (UTC)Reply