Template:Prose

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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=September 2025}} → Category:Articles needing cleanup from September 2025 and Category:Articles with sections that need to be turned into prose from September 2025.

If no date is given, articles will be added to the more general Category:Wikipedia cleanup and Category:Articles with sections that need to be turned into prose.

Also parameter 1 may be included to replace "article" with a specific term, such as "section" or "table". For example:

{{Prose|section|date=September 2025}}

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

•  Wikipedia:Writing better articles
•  Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Trivia sections
•  Wikipedia:Handling trivia –  essay on trivia in Wikipedia, what it is and how it should be handled
•  Wikipedia:"In popular culture" content – essay on "popular culture"–types articles and sections
•  Wikipedia:WikiProject Trivia Cleanup – WikiProject designed to clean up long lists of trivia in articles
•  Wikipedia:Proseline – essay on avoiding writing prose paragraphs that end up looking like a list anyway
•  Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup – index of cleanup templates

TemplateData

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TemplateData for Prose

{
	"description": "Use this maintenance template to indicate that an article is in list format but may read better as prose.",
	"format": "inline",
	"params": {
		"date": {
			"label": "Month and year",
			"description": "The month and year that the template was placed (in full). \"{{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}\" inserts the current month and year automatically.",
			"type": "line",
			"autovalue": "{{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}",
			"example": "January 2013",
			"suggested": true
		},
		"1": {
			"label": "Affected area",
			"description": "Text to replace the word \"article\", usually \"section\"",
			"type": "line",
			"autovalue": "section",
			"example": "section"
		}
	},
	"paramOrder": [
		"date",
		"1"
	]
}