Template:Further reading cleanup

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When to use

Add this to the top of the "Further reading" section whenever:

• There are too many publications listed for this article. (Most editors object to more than about half a dozen publications, but the best number for a given article depends on the specific circumstances, and may range from zero to more than a dozen.)
• One or more of the publications in the list duplicates a citation in the references or notes sections.
• One or more of the publications present (regardless of number) is inappropriate for any reason.

Please consider "weeding the book farm" yourself, rather than using this tag to ask someone else to do it. Don't forget to remove this template when the concerns appear to have been resolved.

Usage

{{Further reading cleanup|date=December 2025}}

This template will categorize tagged articles into Category:Wikipedia further reading cleanup and Category:Wikipedia spam cleanup. See Special:Recentchangeslinked/Category:Wikipedia spam cleanup to see recent edits to tagged articles.

• This template is a self-reference.
• Please do not subst: this template.

Redirects

• {{Book farm}}
• {{Further cleanup}}
• {{Further too long}}
• {{Too much further reading}}
• {{Uncited references}}

See also

• {{Too many see alsos}}
• {{Further}} – an unrelated hatnote template used to wikilink to articles with further information
• {{External links}}
• {{No more links}}
• {{Promotional}}
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Layout § Further reading
• Wikipedia:External links
• Wikipedia:WikiProject External links
• Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup

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.

TemplateData

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

TemplateData for Further reading cleanup

The template is used on "Further reading" sections with inappropriate or excessive suggestions.

Template parameters[Edit template data]

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
Month and year	date	Provides the month and year of the citation request; e.g., 'January 2013', but not 'jan13' Auto value {{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}	Line	suggested

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