 | This article may need to be rewritten to comply with Wikipedia's quality standards. (December 2025) |
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This template should be used on articles which need so much cleanup that rewriting them completely may be necessary to comply with Wikipedia's guidelines on style and content. It is strongly encouraged that the editor adding the tag discuss the issue on the article's talk page, especially if the writing appears superficially acceptable.
Usage
To provide a reason for the needed rewrite, use:
{{Cleanup rewrite|Reason for rewrite|article or section|date=December 2025}}
| This article or section may need to be rewritten to comply with Wikipedia's quality standards, as Reason for rewrite. (December 2025) |
To mark a section for rewrite without a reason, use:
{{Cleanup rewrite|2=section|date=December 2025}}
| This section may need to be rewritten to comply with Wikipedia's quality standards. (December 2025) |
To mark an article for rewrite without a reason, use:
{{Cleanup rewrite|date=December 2025}}
| This article may need to be rewritten to comply with Wikipedia's quality standards. (December 2025) |
This template adds tagged articles to Category:Wikipedia articles needing rewrite.
It should not be subst'd.
Tracking categories
Aliases
- Template:Section rewrite
- Also known as... (list of all redirects to this template that may also be used)
See also
- Template:Citation style
- Template:Cleanup list
- Template:Confusing
- Template:Context
- Template:Copy edit
- Template:Fiction
- Template:Globalize
- Template:Notability
- Template:Primary sources
- Template:Rewriting
- Template:Self-contradictory
- Template:Technical
- Template:Tone
- Template:Uncategorized
- Template:Underlinked
- Template:Unreferenced
TemplateData
TemplateData for Cleanup rewrite
Use this cleanup template to indicate that an article may need to be rewritten to comply with Wikipedia's quality standards.
| 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.
| Line | suggested |
| Reason | 1 | The reason why the article may need to be rewritten
| String | optional |
| Section? | section | Enter "yes" here to replace the word "article" with "section".
| Line | optional |
| Affected area | 2 | Custom text to replace the word "article" in the template
| Line | optional |
| Make template small | small | Enter "left" here to make the template box small and aligned to the left.
| Line | optional |