Template:Promotional tone/doc

When to use
Add this to articles that need help from other editors because they contain promotional language or material. This tag only applies to articles that are promoting a subject (rather than advertising something).

This template should be used if the problem is described by either, or both, of the following bullet points (from WP:PROMO):


 * Advocacy, propaganda, or recruitment of any kind: commercial, political, scientific, religious, national, sports-related, or otherwise. An article can report objectively about such things, as long as an attempt is made to describe the topic from a neutral point of view.
 * Self-promotion.

This template should not be used in an article if the following bullet point describes the problem (Advert should be used in this case):


 * Advertising, marketing or public relations. Information about people, organizations, issues, and products must be written in an objective and unbiased style, free of puffery.

This template adds articles to Category:Articles with a promotional tone.

How to use

 * Place at the top of the article.
 * You can adjust the default "article" text with something more specific, such as:.

TemplateData
{	"params": { "1": {			"label": "Scope (e.g. section)", "description": "This parameter allows an editor to replace the default word \"article\" with another word, usually \"section\"", "type": "string", "default": "article" },		"type": { "autovalue": "", "aliases": [ "2"			],			"label": "Type", "description": "To replace the text \"promotional tone\" with another phrase", "type": "string", "default": "promotional tone" },		"date": { "label": "Month and year", "description": "Month and year of tagging; e.g., 'January 2013', but not 'jan13'", "type": "string", "autovalue": " ", "required": true }	},	"format": "inline", "description": "Template for tagging articles with promotional language or material" }

Acknowledgements
This documentation was adapted from the documentation for the template Advert; specifically, this revision.

The template Promotional tone was adapted from Advert; specifically, this revision.