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This template is used to indicate that cleanup is needed for an excessive use of examples .
Usage
{{Excessive examples |date=May 2025}}
{{ Cleanup list }} is for poorly trimmed lists, while {{ Excessive examples }} is for poorly trimmed articles, including prose.
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This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.
Parameter Description Type Status Date dateDate when it was added or verified
Example November 2018 Auto value {{SUBST:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{SUBST:CURRENTYEAR}}String suggested Article or section? 1Set to 'section' to specify that you are referring to the section
Default article String optional
See also
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.{{Self-sourcing examples }} – 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.
