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Usage

This template is used when an article has too much or indiscriminately-listed gaming trivia, and should be cleaned up according to the Wikipedia trivia guidelines and/or Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Video games.

Tracking categories

See also

Other plot- and fiction-related templates
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.
  • {{Reduce trivia}} – Suggests removal of trivial details, and optionally also relocation of relevant ones.
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.
  • {{Refimprove example}} – For an article or section with poorly cited examples.
  • {{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
  • {{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).
  • {{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 an excessive list of an artist, performer, or studio's works.
  • {{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.
  • {{Local}} – 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.