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This template is used to identify articles which, while understandable, have excessive information about trivial subjects and need to be refocused to suit a more general audience.
Usage
- Full page
- {{Overly detailed|date=September 2024}}
- Section
- {{Overly detailed|section|date=September 2024}}
"Date" and "section" are both optional. The "section" attribute, if included, customises the wording to apply only to a section of an article.
This template sorts articles into Category:Wikipedia articles needing style editing and Category:Wikipedia articles that are excessively detailed.
This template should not be subst'ed.
Template data
<templatedata> { "params": { "details": { "label": "Additional details", "description": "Any additional details you would like to add to this request", "example": "an excess of advanced scientific data in the lead section", "type": "string", "suggested": true }, "date": { "label": "Month and year", "description": "The month and year that this cleanup request was placed", "example": "March 2017", "type": "date", "suggested": true }, "section": { "label": "Section", "description": "Replaces phrase \"article\" with \"section\"", "type": "string", "suggested": true } }, "description": "Used to identify articles which, while understandable, have excessive information about trivial subjects and need to be refocused to suit a more general audience.", "paramOrder": [ "section", "details", "date" ], "format": "inline" } </templatedata>
Redirects
- {{Fancruft}}
- {{Intricate detail}}
See also
- Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup
- Wikipedia:Fancruft, an essay on "fancruft".
- Wikipedia:Handling trivia, an essay on trivia in Wikipedia, what it is and how it should be handled.
- Wikipedia:"In popular culture" content, an essay on "Popular culture" articles and sections.
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Trivia Cleanup, a WikiProject designed to clean up long lists of trivia in articles.
- {{Coatrack}}, for articles that are primarily related to totally different subjects or aspects of that subject
- {{Fanpov}}, for articles written from a fan's point of view.
- {{Plot}}, for plot summaries which are too long or excessively detailed.
- {{Nota bene}}, a similar box that suggests moving details worthy of inclusion under footnotes
- {{Prose}}, a similar box that suggests converting the section into prose, rather than integrating the items into the prose of other sections.
- {{Trivia}}, a similar box suggesting the merging of basic trivia into prose in other sections.
- {{Overly detailed-inline}}, for use inline for excessive or trivial detail.
- {{Very long}}