Template:Overly detailed/doc

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=December 2024}}

Section

{{Overly detailed|section|date=December 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}}