Template:Summarize section
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Usage
Put at the top of a section that needs to be compressed to an encyclopedic approach and level of detail:
{Summarize section|date=March 2025}
Tracking categories
See also
- 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.{Self-sourcing examples} – 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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