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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 2024))→ Category:Articles needing cleanup from January 2024 and Category:Articles with sections that need to be turned into prose from January 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.
Parameter 1 may be included to replace "article" with a specific term, such as "section" or "table". For example:
((Prose|section|date=January 2024))
...would display as:
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((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
Use this maintenance template to indicate that an article is in list format but may read better as prose.
| Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month and year | date | The month and year that the template was placed (in full). "((subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME)) ((subst:CURRENTYEAR))" inserts the current month and year automatically.
| Line | suggested |
| Affected area | 1 | Text to replace the word "article", usually "section"
| Line | optional |