Template:Too many list sections
Description
[edit]This template will add tagged articles to a cleanup category according to the month and year given.
Usage
[edit]{{Too many list sections|date=November 2025}}→ Category:Articles needing cleanup from November 2025 and Category:Articles with sections that need to be turned into prose from November 2025.
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:
{{Too many list sections|section|date=November 2025}}
Closely related templates
[edit]Please keep this template's messaging consistent with the related templates:
{{Prose}}– for specific sections{{Create list}}– the opposite of this template{{Trivia}}– suggests relocation rather than reformatting of the details in a trivia section{{Expand list}}– for use where a list is too short/incomplete{{List to table}}– for use where a table would be better than a list{{Table to prose}}– for use where prose is preferable to a table{{Example farm}}– for articles or sections with too many examples
See also
[edit]- Wikipedia:Writing better articles
 - Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Trivia sections
 - Wikipedia:Handling trivia – 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
 - Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup – index of cleanup templates
 
TemplateData
[edit]TemplateData for Too many list sections
Use this maintenance template to indicate that an article contains too many sections formatted as a list.
| Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month and year | date | The month and year that the template was placed (in full). "{{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}" inserts the current month and year automatically. 
  | Line | suggested |