Template:Excessive examples/doc

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Usage

• This template is used to indicate that cleanup is needed for an excessive use of examples.
• Do not use subst: with this template.
• For use in sections, use {{Excessive examples|section}}

{{Cleanup list}} is for poorly trimmed lists, while {{Excessive examples}} is for poorly trimmed articles, including prose.

Notes

• This template will add tagged articles to dated subcategories of Category:Wikipedia articles with style issues by month and Category:Articles with too many examples, and to Category:All articles with style issues and Category:All articles with too many examples.
• This template is a self-reference.

Redirects

• {{Too many examples}}
• {{Example farm}}
• {{Examplefarm}}
• {{Bad examples}}

TemplateData

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

TemplateData for Excessive examples

<templatedata> { "description": "Banner to indicate that cleanup is needed for an excessive use of examples.", "params": { "1": { "label": "Article or section?", "type": "string", "description": "Set to 'section' to specify that you are referring to the section", "default": "article" }, "date": { "label": "Date", "type": "string", "description": "Date when it was added or verified", "autovalue": "{{SUBST:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{SUBST:CURRENTYEAR}}", "example": "November 2018", "suggested": true } }, "paramOrder": [ "date", "1" ], "format": "inline" } </templatedata>

See also

• {{Example cruft editnotice}} – for articles not yet example farms but at high risk of becoming farms
• Wikipedia:Writing better articles

Other trivia-related templates

General trivia {{Trivia}} – Suggests relocation of the relevant details in a trivia section, to another section (or article). {{Trivia section}} – Same as above, but goes at the top of the trivia section, rather than the top of the article. Relevance and importance {{Off topic}} – For a section that has wandered from the topic of the article {{Content}} – For an article or section containing information whose relevance is disputed. {{Importance section}} – For a section with information that is simply off-topic for the article, and needs removal or relocation to another article. {{Importance inline}} – For a particular item that is off-topic needs removal or relocation to another article. {{Refexample}} – For an article or section with poorly cited examples. {{Better source example}} – For a particular instance of a poorly cited example. {{Relevance inline}} – For a particular item that doesn't seem to belong in the context at all. {{Non sequitur}} – For a namedropping of someone or something the relevance of which may not be clear to the reader. Excessive detail {{Overly detailed}} – For excessive focus on minute details not of interest to our general readership. {{Summarize section}} – For sections that are too detailed and need to be summarized. {{Example farm}} – For excessive use of examples. {{Too many see alsos}} – For an indiscriminate "See also" section, most of which should be pruned or integrated into the prose. Topical trivia {{In popular culture}} – For excessive "popular culture" and "media references" sorts of material. {{Fiction trivia}} (or {{In-universe}}) – For too many trivial fictional references (or too much "in-universe" detail). {{Long plot}}, {{All plot}} – For excessively detailed plot summaries. {{Cleanup book}}, {{Cleanup film}} – For excessive detail about particular types of works (other than plot and fictional or in-universe issues). {{Game trivia}} – For too much gaming-related trivia. {{MOSLOW}} – For list that does not follow the Manual of Style for lists of works, e.g. not in chronological order {{Cleanup university}}, {{Cleanup school}} – For excessive detail about an educational institution. {{Famous}} – For an indiscriminate list of "famous" people associated in some way with a topic. {{Localist}} – For local-interest trivia that is unverifiable or otherwise unencyclopedic. List cleanup {{Prose}} – Suggests converting into prose a section that consists of a list. {{Cleanup list}} – For indiscriminate lists that need reduction. {{List to table}} – For use where a table would be better than a list.

• Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup
• Wikipedia:Template messages/Sources of articles