Template:Prose

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Description[kulemba source]

This template will add tagged articles to a cleanup category according to the month and year given.

Usage[kulemba source]

{{Prose|date=Meyi 2024}} → Category:Articles needing cleanup from Meyi 2024 and Category:Articles with sections that need to be turned into prose from Meyi 2024.

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.

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

{{Prose|section|date=Meyi 2024}}

...would display as:

Closely related templates[kulemba source]

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

TemplateData[kulemba source]

This is the TemplateData documentation for the template used by the new VisualEditor.

Prose

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

Template parameters[Edit template data]
This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.
Parameter		Description	Type	Status
Month and year	`date`	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}}`	Line	suggested
Affected area	`1`	Text to replace the word "article", usually "section" Example section Auto value `section`	Line	optional

The above documentation is transcluded from Template:Prose/doc.
Editors can experiment in this template's sandbox and testcases pages.
Add categories to the /doc subpage. Subpages of this template.

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