Template:Excessive examples/doc

This template is used to indicate that cleanup is needed for an excessive use of examples.

Usage

{{Excessive examples|date=November 2025}}

• Do not use subst: with this template.
• For use in sections, use {{Excessive examples|section|date=November 2025}}

{{Cleanup list}} is for poorly trimmed lists, while {{Excessive examples}} is for poorly trimmed articles, including prose.

Notes

• This template will add tagged articles to dated subcategories of Category:Wikipedia articles with style issues by month and Category:Articles with too many examples, and to Category:All articles with style issues and Category:All articles with too many examples.
• This template is a self-reference.

Redirects

• {{Too many examples}}
• {{Example farm}}
• {{Examplefarm}}
• {{Bad examples}}

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. See a monthly parameter usage report for Template:Excessive examples in articles based on its TemplateData.

TemplateData for Excessive examples

Banner to indicate that cleanup is needed for an excessive use of examples.

Template parameters

This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
Date	date	Date when it was added or verified Example November 2018 Auto value {{SUBST:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{SUBST:CURRENTYEAR}}	String	suggested
Article or section?	1	Set to 'section' to specify that you are referring to the section Default article	String	optional

See also

• {{Example cruft editnotice}} – for articles not yet example farms but at high risk of becoming farms
• Wikipedia:Writing better articles

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.

{{Unfocused}} – for an article which lacks focus or has no particular topic.

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.

{{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

{{Self-sourcing examples}} – For an article or section with poorly cited popular culture examples.

{{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.

• Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup
• Wikipedia:Template messages/Sources of articles