Template:Cleanup book

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Usage

{{Cleanup book|date=December 2024}}

Notes

• This template will categorise tagged articles into Category:Books needing cleanup and Category:Wikipedia cleanup. If you didn't add a date, a bot will date uses of this template.
• This template is a self-reference, and so is part of the Wikipedia project rather than the encyclopaedic content.

Template usage notes Please refer to the list of cleanup templates before using any template on the namespace. Applying the best template available for your purpose may help reduce confusion from the message you are sending. Please do not substitute this template. It should be normally included on article pages.

Tracking categories

• Category:All pages needing cleanup (0)
• Category:Books needing cleanup (0)

See also

• {{Cleanup film}}
• Wikipedia:How to write a plot summary
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style (writing about fiction)
• Wikipedia:Handling trivia
• Topic-specific guidelines - anime/manga, novels, comics

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. 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. {{Refexample}} – 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). {{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.

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