Template:In-universe/sandbox

This is the template sandbox page for Template:In-universe (diff).
See also the companion subpage for test cases.

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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/sandbox|date=December 2025}}

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 = December 2025}}
{{In-universe|subject = animation|category = animation|date = December 2025}}
{{In-universe|subject = comics|category = comics|date = December 2025}}
{{In-universe|subject = Discworld|category = Discworld|date = December 2025}}
{{In-universe|subject = Dungeons & Dragons|category = Dungeons & Dragons|date = December 2025}}
{{In-universe|subject = film|category = film|date = December 2025}}
{{In-universe|subject = book|category = literature|date = December 2025}}
{{In-universe|subject = Star Trek|category = Star Trek|date = December 2025}}
{{In-universe|subject = Star Wars|category =Star Wars|date = December 2025}}
{{In-universe|subject = Sopranos|category = Sopranos|date = December 2025}}
{{In-universe|subject = television|category = television|date = December 2025}}
{{In-universe|subject = Three Kingdoms|category = Three Kingdoms|date = December 2025}}
{{In-universe|subject = Middle-earth|category = Tolkien|date = December 2025}}
{{In-universe|subject = Transformers|category = Transformers|date = December 2025}}
{{In-universe|subject = video game|category = video game|date = December 2025}}
{{In-universe|subject = Warhammer|category = Warhammer 40,000|date = December 2025}}

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

Category:All articles that need to differentiate between fact and fiction (1,065)

Wikipedia:How to write a plot summary
Wikipedia:Manual of Style (writing about fiction)
Wikipedia:Handling trivia
{{Kayfabe}} – For professional wrestling related articles with excessive storyline or Kayfabe information
{{Fiction trivia}} – For fiction-specific articles that have way too many trivial examples
{{Copy edit}}
{{Tone}}
Topic-specific guidelines – Films, television series and episodes, anime/manga, novels, comics, video games

Other plot- and fiction-related templates

{{All plot}}, if an article consists entirely or almost entirely of a plot summary
{{Hook}}, if a plot summary is more like a listings magazine hook, or a jacket blurb from a novel.
{{No plot}}, if no plot summary exists
{{More plot}}, if plot summary is insufficient
{{Long plot}}, if plot summary is too long
{{In-universe}}
{{Fiction}}
Wikipedia:Plot-only description of fictional works
Wikipedia:Manual of Style (writing about fiction)
Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup

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.

The above documentation is transcluded from Template:In-universe/doc.
Editors can experiment in this template's sandbox and testcases pages.
Add categories to the /doc subpage. Subpages of this template.