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This template is used on approximately 3,000 pages and changes may be widely noticed. Test changes in the template's /sandbox or /testcases subpages, or in your own user subpage. Consider discussing changes on the talk page before implementing them.

This template is a self-reference. This template should not be substituted.

Usage

Add this template to the topic of the "Plot" section of an article with a plot summary that is insufficient. This may be because only a token summary was ever written, or because a summary has become insufficient over time, e.g. as successive seasons of a TV show have changed the overall plot outline of the series. Another common plot summarization error in articles on TV, novel, game, etc. series is to provide the plot of the first installment in great detail as if the article were the article on that episode or book rather than about the series as a whole.

This template can and should be dated:

{{More plot|date=November 2024}}

This template can refer to a section (or another article part), instead of the default article. Do this by adding a |1= parameter (or an unnumbered one):

{{More plot|1=section|date=November 2024}}

{{More plot|paragraph|date=November 2024}}

The words "plot summary" in "needs an improved plot summary" can be replaced with something to better match the article in question, such as "Premise section". This parameter must be numbered:

{{More plot|2=Premise section|date=November 2024}}

{{More plot|1=Section|2=premise summary|date=November 2024}}

The |plural= parameter can be used to change the default text to "plot summaries" and remove the "an" before "improved":

{{More plot|plural=y|date=November 2024}}

{{More plot|1=Section|2=premise summaries|plural=y|date=November 2024}}

The |noimproved= parameter can be used to remove "an improved", in case a section is tagged at the top for lacking multiple plot summaries:

{{More plot|1=section|2=plot summaries for episodes 9–13|noimproved=y|date=November 2024}}

The template will categorize tagged articles in the proper, dated subcategory of Category:CAPipediaarticles with plot summary needing attention.

<templatedata> { "params": { "date": { "label": "Month and Year", "type": "date", "autovalue": "January 2024", "suggested": true } } } </templatedata>

Usage

See also