Template:Prose

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Description

This template will add tagged articles to a cleanup category according to the month and year given.

Usage

{{Prose|date=December 2025}} → Category:Articles needing cleanup from December 2025 and Category:Articles with sections that need to be turned into prose from December 2025.

If no date is given, articles will be added to the more general Category:Wikipedia cleanup and Category:Articles with sections that need to be turned into prose.

Parameter 1 may be included to replace "article" with a specific term, such as "section" or "table". For example:

{{Prose|section|date=December 2025}}

...would display as:

Closely related templates

Please keep this template's messaging consistent with the related templates:

{{Create list}} – the opposite of this template
{{Trivia}} – suggests relocation rather than reformatting of the details in a trivia section
{{Expand list}} – for use where a list is too short/incomplete
{{List to table}} – for use where a table would be better than a list
{{Table to prose}} – for use where prose is preferable to a table
{{Example farm}} – for articles or sections with too many examples

TemplateData

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

TemplateData for Prose

Use this maintenance template to indicate that an article is in list format but may read better as prose.

Template parameters[Edit template data]
This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.
Parameter		Description	Type	Status
Month and year	`date`	The month and year that the template was placed (in full). "{{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}" inserts the current month and year automatically. Example January 2013 Auto value `{{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}`	Line	suggested
Affected area	`1`	Text to replace the word "article", usually "section" Example section Auto value `section`	Line	optional

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Description

Usage

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