Template:Advert/doc

When to use

Add this to articles that need help from other editors because in whole or part they are advertisements masquerading as articles. For example, they may tell users to buy the company's product, provide price lists, give links to online sellers, or use unencyclopedic or meaningless buzzwords.

The advert tag is for Wikipedia articles that in whole or part have been made into public relations documents or brochures, with content that portrays an issue, a product, an organization, or a person in a positive or negative light.

The issue this tag addresses, is the policy, WP:PROMO, which forbids content that reflects:

• Advocacy, propaganda, or recruitment of any kind: commercial, political, scientific, religious, national, sports-related, or otherwise. An article can report objectively about such things, as long as an attempt is made to describe the topic from a neutral point of view.
• Self-promotion.
• Advertising, marketing or public relations. Information about people, organizations, issues, and products must be written in an objective and unbiased style, free of puffery.

If an article appears to be any of the above, this tag is appropriate.

This template adds articles to Category:Articles with a promotional tone.

How to use

Articles

• For articles needing major cleanup, place {{Advert|date=December 2024}} at the top of the article to alert readers.
• You can adjust the default "article" text with something more specific, such as: {{Advert|article's "Controversy" section}}.

Sections

• To mark specific sections instead of the whole article, place {{Advert section|date=December 2024}} at the top of the section.

Remarks

• To replace the text "an advertisement", you may use {{Advert|article/section|yourtext}} or {{Advert|2=yourtext}} or {{Advert|type=yourtext}}

See also

• {{Advert inline}} – For marking specific promotional language
• {{Advert section}} – For tagging specific promotional sections
• {{Promotion inline}} – For tagging non-advertising promotional material
• {{Promotional source}} – For tagging promotional sources that have been cited in an article
• {{List spam}} – For marking lists that contain spammy entries
• {{External links}} – For marking sections with inappropriate use of external links
• {{News release}}
• {{Like resume}}
• {{Travel guide}}
• {{Fanpov}}
• {{Spam}} – For warning spammers on their talk pages
• {{Essay}} – For opinion pieces

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam
• Wikipedia:WikiProject External links
• Wikipedia:Cleanup process
• Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. See a monthly parameter usage report for Template:Advert in articles based on its TemplateData.

TemplateData for Advert

Template for tagging advertisements masquerading as articles

Template parameters

This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.

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" Default article	Content	optional
Type	type 2	To replace the text "an advertisement" with another phrase Default an advertisement Auto value	Content	optional
Month and year	date	Month and year of tagging; e.g., 'January 2013', but not 'jan13' Auto value {{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}	String	suggested