Template:Prose
 | This article is in a list format that may be better presented using prose. (December 2024) |
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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=December 2024}}→ Category:Articles needing cleanup from December 2024 and Category:Articles with sections that need to be turned into prose from December 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=December 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{{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
- Template:Table to prose – for use where prose is preferable to a table
- 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 |