Template:Example farm/doc

Usage

• This template is used to indicate that cleanup is needed for an excessive use of examples.
• Do not use subst: with this template.
• For use in sections, use |section

{{Cleanup list}} is for poorly trimmed lists, while {{Example farm}} is for poorly trimmed articles, including prose.

Notes

• This template will add tagged articles to dated subcategories of Category:Wikipedia articles with style issues by month and Category:Articles with too many examples, and to Category:All articles with style issues and Category:All articles with too many examples.
• This template is a self-reference.

Redirects

• {{Too many examples}}
• {{Examplefarm}}
• {{Bad examples}}

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData documentation for this template used by VisualEditor and other tools; see the monthly error report for this template.

TemplateData for Example farm

<templatedata> { "description": "Banner to indicate that cleanup is needed for an excessive use of examples.", "params": { "1": {

    "label": "Article or section?",
    "type": "string",
    "description": "Set to 'section' to specify that you are referring to the section",
    "default": "article"
    },

"date": {

    "label": "Date",
    "type": "string",
    "description": "Date when it was added or verified",
    "autovalue": "{{SUBST:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{SUBST:CURRENTYEAR}}",
    "example": "November 2018"
    },

}, "paramOrder": [ "1", "date", ], } </templatedata>

See also

• Wikipedia:Writing better articles

Other trivia-related templates

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. 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. {{Refimprove example}} – For an article or section with poorly cited examples. {{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  {{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). {{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 an excessive list of an artist, performer, or studio's works. {{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. {{Local}} – 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.

• Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup
• Wikipedia:Template messages/Sources of articles