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This template is a self-reference.
Usage
Add {{In-universe}} to an article to tag it as needing this maintenance.
{{In-universe|date=June 2022}}
Parameters and categories
The template supports the following optional parameters:
- section
- if present, the parameter |section will change the opening wording from "This article describes a work ..." to "This section describes a work ..."
- subject
- the subject as in "This ____-related article". The subject can be formatted as a wikilink to an article or WikiProject.
- described_object
- if present,
described_object replaces "a work or element of fiction".
- category
- the cleanup category in which you wish to place the article, in the form
[[Category:{{category}} articles that need to differentiate between fact and fiction]]. For example, specifying "category=anime and manga" will place the article in Category:Anime and manga articles that need to differentiate between fact and fiction.
Standard usage of parameters to sort into existing categories:
- {{In-universe|subject = anime and manga|category = anime and manga|date = June 2022}}
- {{In-universe|subject = animation|category = animation|date = June 2022}}
- {{In-universe|subject = comics|category = comics|date = June 2022}}
- {{In-universe|subject = Discworld|category = Discworld|date = June 2022}}
- {{In-universe|subject = Dungeons & Dragons|category = Dungeons & Dragons|date = June 2022}}
- {{In-universe|subject = film|category = film|date = June 2022}}
- {{In-universe|subject = book|category = literature|date = June 2022}}
- {{In-universe|subject = Star Trek|category = Star Trek|date = June 2022}}
- {{In-universe|subject = Star Wars|category =Star Wars|date = June 2022}}
- {{In-universe|subject = Sopranos|category = Sopranos|date = June 2022}}
- {{In-universe|subject = television|category = television|date = June 2022}}
- {{In-universe|subject = Three Kingdoms|category = Three Kingdoms|date = June 2022}}
- {{In-universe|subject = Middle-earth|category = Tolkien|date = June 2022}}
- {{In-universe|subject = Transformers|category = Transformers|date = June 2022}}
- {{In-universe|subject = video game|category = video game|date = June 2022}}
- {{In-universe|subject = Warhammer|category = Warhammer 40,000|date = June 2022}}
An example of a category that needs improvement:
Categorization
This template will categorise tagged articles into Category:Articles that need to differentiate between fact and fiction, or a dated subcategory thereof.
Tracking categories
See also
Other plot- and fiction-related templates
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Other trivia-related templates
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- 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.
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