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=October 2024}}Category:Articles needing cleanup from October 2024 and Category:Articles with sections that need to be turned into prose from October 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.

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=October 2024}}

Closely related templates

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

TemplateData

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

TemplateData for Too many list sections

<templatedata> { "description": "Use this maintenance template to indicate that an article contains too many sections formatted as a list.", "format": "inline", "params": { "date": { "label": "Month and year", "description": "The month and year that the template was placed (in full). \"{{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}\" inserts the current month and year automatically.", "type": "line", "autovalue": "{{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}", "example": "January 2013", "suggested": true }

               },

"paramOrder": [ "date" ] } </templatedata>