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Template:Game trivia

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This article may contain excessive or off-topic gaming-related detail. Please help by removing purely indiscriminate information, relocating encyclopedic material to more appropriate pages, and adding relevant information written in an encyclopedic style. (January 2026)
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Usage

This template is used when an article has too much or indiscriminately-listed gaming trivia, and should be cleaned up according to the Wikipedia trivia guidelines and/or Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Video games.

Tracking categories

  • Category:All pages needing cleanup (1)
  • Category:Video game cleanup (0)

See also

  • Wikipedia:How to write a plot summary
  • Wikipedia:Manual of Style (writing about fiction)
  • Wikipedia:Handling trivia
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Article guidelines
Other plot- and fiction-related templates
  • {{All plot}}, if an article consists entirely or almost entirely of a plot summary
  • {{Hook}}, if a plot summary is more like a listings magazine hook, or a jacket blurb from a novel.
  • {{No plot}}, if no plot summary exists
  • {{More plot}}, if plot summary is insufficient
  • {{Long plot}}, if plot summary is too long
  • {{In-universe}}
  • {{Fiction}}
  • Wikipedia:Plot-only description of fictional works
  • Wikipedia:Manual of Style (writing about fiction)
  • Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup
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.
{{Refexample}} – 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).
{{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.
  • {{Cleanup film}}
  • {{Cleanup book}}
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Last edited on 29 February 2020, at 12:31

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