Template:Summarize section

Template documentation

Usage

Put at the top of a section that needs to be compressed to an encyclopedic approach and level of detail:

     

Tracking categories

• Category:Articles containing overly long summaries (1)

See also

• A list of related cleanup templates at Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup
• {{Very long}} used for whole articles that are too long
• {{Very long section}}
• {{Lead too short}}
• {{Summarize}}
• {{Summary too long}}

Trivia cleanup templates

General trivia – Suggests relocation of the relevant details in a trivia section, to another section (or article). – Same as above, but goes at the top of the trivia section, rather than the top of the article. Relevance and importance – For a section that has wandered from the topic of the article – For an article or section containing information whose relevance is disputed. – For a section with information that is simply off-topic for the article, and needs removal or relocation to another article. – For a particular item that is off-topic needs removal or relocation to another article. – For an article or section with poorly cited examples. – For a particular instance of a poorly cited example. – For a particular item that doesn't seem to belong in the context at all. – For a namedropping of someone or something the relevance of which may not be clear to the reader. Excessive detail – For excessive focus on minute details not of interest to our general readership. – For sections that are too detailed and need to be summarized. – For excessive use of examples. – For an indiscriminate "See also" section, most of which should be pruned or integrated into the prose. Topical trivia – For excessive "popular culture" and "media references" sorts of material. (or ) – For too many trivial fictional references (or too much "in-universe" detail). , – For excessively detailed plot summaries. , – For excessive detail about particular types of works (other than plot and fictional or in-universe issues). – For too much gaming-related trivia. – For list that does not follow the Manual of Style for lists of works, e.g. not in chronological order , – For excessive detail about an educational institution. – For an indiscriminate list of "famous" people associated in some way with a topic. – For local-interest trivia that is unverifiable or otherwise unencyclopedic. List cleanup – Suggests converting into prose a section that consists of a list. – For indiscriminate lists that need reduction. – For use where a table would be better than a list.