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 | This is a documentation subpage for Template:Overly detailed. It contains usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page. |
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|date=September 2024|section=yes}}
"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.
This template should not be subst'ed.
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
- {{Plot}}, for plot summaries which are too long or excessively detailed
- {{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
- {{Necessary?}}, for use inline for excessive or trivial detail