Template:Too many list sections

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Description

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

Usage

{{Too many list sections|date=February 2026}} → Category:Articles needing cleanup from February 2026 and Category:Articles with sections that need to be turned into prose from February 2026.

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.

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

{{Too many list sections|section|date=February 2026}}

Closely related templates

Please keep this template's messaging consistent with the related templates:

• {{Prose}} – for specific sections
• {{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

See also

• Wikipedia:Writing better articles
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Trivia sections
• Wikipedia:Handling trivia – essay on trivia in Wikipedia, what it is and how it should be handled
• Wikipedia:"In popular culture" content – essay on "popular culture"–types articles and sections
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Trivia Cleanup – WikiProject designed to clean up long lists of trivia in articles
• Wikipedia:Proseline – essay on avoiding writing prose paragraphs that end up looking like a list anyway
• Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup – index of cleanup templates

TemplateData

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TemplateData for Too many list sections

Use this maintenance template to indicate that an article contains too many sections formatted as a list.

Template parameters

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

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