Template:Prose/doc

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

...would display as:

Closely related templates

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

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. Click here to see a monthly parameter usage report for this template in articles based on this TemplateData.

TemplateData for Prose

Use this maintenance template to indicate that an article is in list format but may read better as prose.

Template parameters

This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.

ParameterDescriptionTypeStatus
Month and yeardate

The month and year that the template was placed (in full). "{{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}" inserts the current month and year automatically.

Example
January 2013
Auto value
{{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}
Linesuggested
Affected area1

Text to replace the word "article", usually "section"

Example
section
Auto value
section
Lineoptional