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Description
This template will add tagged articles to a cleanup category according to the month and year given.
Usage
{{Prose|date=November 2024}}→ Category:Articles needing cleanup from November 2024 and Category:Articles with sections that need to be turned into prose from November 2024.
If no date is given, articles will be added to the more general Category:OODA WIKI cleanup and Category:Articles with sections that need to be turned into prose.
Parameter 1 may be included to replace "article" with a specific term, such as "section" or "table". For example:
{{Prose|section|date=November 2024}}
...would display as:
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Please keep this template's messaging consistent with the related templates:
{{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
- OODA WIKI:Writing better articles
- OODA WIKI:Manual of Style/Trivia sections
- OODA WIKI:Handling trivia – essay on trivia in OODA WIKI, what it is and how it should be handled
- OODA WIKI:"In popular culture" content – essay on "popular culture"–types articles and sections
- OODA WIKI:WikiProject Trivia Cleanup – WikiProject designed to clean up long lists of trivia in articles
- OODA WIKI:Proseline – essay on avoiding writing prose paragraphs that end up looking like a list anyway
- OODA WIKI:Template messages/Cleanup – index of cleanup templates
TemplateData
TemplateData for Prose
Use this maintenance template to indicate that an article is in list format but may read better as prose.
| Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month and year | date | The month and year that the template was placed (in full). "{{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}" inserts the current month and year automatically.
| Line | suggested |
| Affected area | 1 | Text to replace the word "article", usually "section"
| Line | optional |