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

== Usage ==

:<code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>Prose|date={{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}}}}</code> → [[:Category:Articles needing cleanup from {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}}]] and [[:Category:Articles with sections that need to be turned into prose from {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}}]].

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]].

Also parameter 1 may be included to replace "article" with a specific term, such as "section" or "table". For example:
:<code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>Prose|section|date={{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}}}}</code>

== Closely related templates ==

Please keep this template's messaging consistent with the related templates:
* {{tlx|Create list}} – the opposite of this template
* {{tlx|Trivia}} – suggests relocation rather than reformatting of the details in a trivia section.
* {{tlx|Reduce trivia}} – a variant of {{tlf|Trivia}}, suggesting removal rather than reformatting or relocation of irrelevant/indiscriminate details.
* {{tlx|Expand list}} – for use where a list is too short/incomplete
* {{tlx|List to table}} – for use where a table would be better than a list
* {{tlx|Example farm}} – for articles or sections with too many examples.

== See also ==
*{{tlx|No prose}}
* [[Wikipedia:Writing better articles]]
* [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Trivia sections]]
* [[Wikipedia:Handling trivia]] – [[WP:Essays|essay]] on trivia in Wikipedia, what it is and how it should be handled.
* [[Wikipedia:"In popular culture" content]] – essay on "popular culture"–types articles and sections.
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Trivia Cleanup]] – wikiproject designed to clean up long lists of trivia in articles.
* [[Wikipedia:Proseline]] – essay on avoiding writing prose paragraphs that end up looking like a list anyway
* [[Template:Table to prose]] – for use where prose is preferable to a table
* [[Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup]] – index of cleanup templates

==TemplateData==
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<templatedata>
{
	"params": {
		"1": {
			"label": "Scope (e.g. section)",
			"description": "This parameter allows an editor to replace the default word \"article\" with another word, usually \"section\"",
			"type": "content",
			"default": "article"
		},
		"date": {
			"label": "Month and year",
			"description": "Month and year of tagging; e.g., 'January 2013', but not 'jan13'",
			"type": "string",
			"autovalue": "{{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}",
			"suggested": true
		}
	},
	"format": "inline",
	"description": "Maintenance template for tagging articles that overuse lists/tables (see [[WP:PROSE]])."
}
</templatedata>

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