Template:Advert/doc

This is a documentation subpage for Template:Advert.
It contains usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page.

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{{Ad}}

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When to use

Add this to articles that need help from other editors because in whole or part they are advertisements masquerading as articles. For example, they may tell users to buy the company's product, provide price lists, give links to online sellers, or use unencyclopedic or meaningless buzzwords.

The advert tag is for Wikipedia articles that in whole or part have been made into public relations documents or brochures, with content that portrays an issue, a product, an organization, or a person in a positive or negative light.

The issue this tag addresses, is the policy, WP:PROMO, which forbids content that reflects:

Advocacy, propaganda, or recruitment of any kind: commercial, political, scientific, religious, national, sports-related, or otherwise. An article can report objectively about such things, as long as an attempt is made to describe the topic from a neutral point of view.
Self-promotion.
Advertising, marketing or public relations. Information about people, organizations, issues, and products must be written in an objective and unbiased style, free of puffery.

If an article appears to be any of the above, this tag is appropriate.

This template adds articles to Category:Articles with a promotional tone.

How to use

Articles

For articles needing major cleanup, place {{Advert|date=December 2024}} at the top of the article to alert readers.
You can adjust the default "article" text with something more specific, such as: {{Advert|article's "Controversy" section}}.

Sections

To mark specific sections instead of the whole article, place {{Advert section|date=December 2024}} at the top of the section.

Remarks

To replace the text "an advertisement", you may use {{Advert|article/section|yourtext}} or {{Advert|2=yourtext}} or {{Advert|type=yourtext}}

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData documentation for this template used by VisualEditor and other tools; see the monthly error report for this template.

TemplateData for Advert

<templatedata> {

   "params": {
       "1": {
           "label": "Scope (e.g. section)",
           "description": "This parameter allows an editor to replace the default word \"article\" with another word, usually \"section\"",
           "type": "content",
           "default": "article"
       },
       "type": {
           "autovalue": "",
           "aliases": [
               "2"
           ],
           "label": "Type",
           "description": "To replace the text \"an advertisement\" with another phrase",
           "type": "content",
           "default": "an advertisement"
       },
       "date": {
           "label": "Month and year",
           "description": "Month and year of tagging; e.g., 'January 2013', but not 'jan13'",
           "type": "string",
           "autovalue": "{{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}",
           "suggested": true
       }
   },
   "format": "inline",
   "description": "Template for tagging advertisements masquerading as articles"

} </templatedata>

Spam warnings
{{welcomespam}} {{spam note}} {{uw-spam1}} {{uw-spam2}} {{uw-spam3}} {{uw-spam4}} {{uw-spam4im}}
Advertising warnings
{{uw-advert1}} {{uw-advert2}} {{uw-advert3}} {{uw-advert4}}
Article tags
{{advert}} {{manual}} {{List spam}} {{No more links}} {{db-spam}} (for listing at CSD)
Policy & Project
Wikipedia:Spam Wikipedia:External links Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam
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