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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=May 2024}}
- Section
- {{Overly detailed|date=May 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.
Redirects
- {{Fancruft}}
- {{Intricate detail}}
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.
- {{Fanpov}}, for articles written from a fan's point of view.
- {{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.
- {{Overly detailed-inline}}, for use inline for excessive or trivial detail.
- {{Very long}}