Template:Prose/doc
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Description
This template will add tagged articles to a cleanup category according to the month and year given.
Usage
{{Prose|date=November 2024}}
→ Category:Articles needing cleanup from November 2024 and Category:Articles with sections that need to be turned into prose from November 2024.
If no date is given, articles will be added to the more general Category:Wikipedia cleanup and Category:Articles with sections that need to be turned into prose.
Also parameter 1 may be included to replace "article" with a specific term, such as "section" or "table". For example:
{{Prose|section|date=November 2024}}
Please keep this template's messaging consistent with the related templates:
{{Create list}}
– the opposite of this template{{Trivia}}
– suggests relocation rather than reformatting of the details in a trivia section{{Reduce trivia}}
– a variant of {{Trivia}}, suggesting removal rather than reformatting or relocation of irrelevant/indiscriminate details{{Expand list}}
– for use where a list is too short/incomplete{{List to table}}
– for use where a table would be better than a list{{Table to prose}}
– for use where prose is preferable to a table{{Example farm}}
– for articles or sections with too many examples
See also
- Wikipedia:Writing better articles
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Trivia sections
- Wikipedia:Handling trivia – essay on trivia in Wikipedia, what it is and how it should be handled
- Wikipedia:"In popular culture" content – essay on "popular culture"–types articles and sections
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Trivia Cleanup – WikiProject designed to clean up long lists of trivia in articles
- Wikipedia:Proseline – essay on avoiding writing prose paragraphs that end up looking like a list anyway
- Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup – index of cleanup templates
TemplateData
TemplateData for Prose
Maintenance template for tagging articles that overuse lists/tables (see [[WP:PROSE]]).
Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Scope (e.g. section) | 1 | This parameter allows an editor to replace the default word "article" with another word, usually "section"
| Content | optional |
Month and year | date | Month and year of tagging; e.g., 'January 2013', but not 'jan13'
| String | suggested |