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{{Too many see alsos |date=November 2025}}
Place this template at the top of a "See also" section which is excessively long or contains mostly redundant entries.
This template adds pages to Category:Articles with excessive see also sections .
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.
{{Unfocused }} – for an article which lacks focus or has no particular topic.
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.
{{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
{{Self-sourcing examples }} – For an article or section with poorly cited popular culture examples.
{{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.
Template parameters[ Edit template data ]
This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.
Parameter Description Type Status Month and year dateProvides the month and year of the citation request; e.g., 'January 2013', but not 'jan13'
Auto value {{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}String suggested