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Usage
- This template is used to indicate that cleanup is needed for an excessive use of examples.
- This template is a self-reference.
- This template will add articles to Category:Articles with too many examples.
- This template is not useful for Wikipedia:Subst.
- For use in sections, use
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{{Cleanup-list}} is for poorly trimmed lists, while {{Example farm}} is for poorly trimmed articles, including prose.
Redirects
- {{Too many examples}}
- {{Examplefarm}}
- {{Bad examples}}
See also
Extended content
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Other trivia-related templates
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- General trivia
{{Trivia}}– Suggests relocation of the relevant details in a trivia section, to another section (or article).{{Trivia section}}– Same as above, but goes at the top of the trivia section, rather than the top of the article.{{Unfocused}}– for an article which lacks focus or has no particular topic.- Relevance and importance
{{Off topic}}– For a section that has wandered from the topic of the article{{Content}}– For an article or section containing information whose relevance is disputed.{{Importance section}}– For a section with information that is simply off-topic for the article, and needs removal or relocation to another article.{{Importance inline}}– For a particular item that is off-topic needs removal or relocation to another article.{{Better source example}}– For a particular instance of a poorly cited example.{{Relevance inline}}– For a particular item that doesn't seem to belong in the context at all.{{Non sequitur}}– For a namedropping of someone or something the relevance of which may not be clear to the reader.- Excessive detail
{{Overly detailed}}– For excessive focus on minute details not of interest to our general readership.{{Summarize section}}– For sections that are too detailed and need to be summarized.{{Example farm}}– For excessive use of examples.{{Too many see alsos}}– For an indiscriminate "See also" section, most of which should be pruned or integrated into the prose.- Topical trivia
{{Self-sourcing examples}}– For an article or section with poorly cited popular culture examples.{{In popular culture}}– For excessive "popular culture" and "media references" sorts of material.{{Fiction trivia}}(or{{In-universe}}) – For too many trivial fictional references (or too much "in-universe" detail).{{Long plot}},{{All plot}}– For excessively detailed plot summaries.{{Cleanup book}},{{Cleanup film}}– For excessive detail about particular types of works (other than plot and fictional or in-universe issues).{{Game trivia}}– For too much gaming-related trivia.{{MOSLOW}}– For list that does not follow the Manual of Style for lists of works, e.g. not in chronological order{{Cleanup university}},{{Cleanup school}}– For excessive detail about an educational institution.{{Famous}}– For an indiscriminate list of "famous" people associated in some way with a topic.{{Localist}}– For local-interest trivia that is unverifiable or otherwise unencyclopedic.- List cleanup
{{Prose}}– Suggests converting into prose a section that consists of a list.{{Cleanup list}}– For indiscriminate lists that need reduction.{{List to table}}– For use where a table would be better than a list.
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