Template:Prose

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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=January 2025}} → Category:Articles needing cleanup from January 2025 and Category:Articles with sections that need to be turned into prose from January 2025.

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=January 2025}}

Closely related templates

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

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

TemplateData for Prose

Maintenance template for tagging articles that overuse lists/tables (see [[WP:PROSE]]).

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
Month and year	date	Month and year of tagging; e.g., 'January 2013', but not 'jan13' Auto value {{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}	String	suggested

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