Template:Too many list sections/doc
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Description
This template will add tagged articles to a cleanup category according to the month and year given.
Usage
{{Too many list sections|date=July 2026}}→ Category:Articles needing cleanup from July 2026 and Category:Articles with sections that need to be turned into prose from July 2026.
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:
{{Too many list sections|section|date=July 2026}}
Please keep this template's messaging consistent with the related templates:
- {{Prose}} – for specific sections
- {{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
This is the TemplateData documentation for this template used by VisualEditor and other tools.
Too many list sections
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Use this maintenance template to indicate that an article contains too many sections formatted as a list.
| 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 |