Template:Trivia/doc

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This template sorts articles into Category:Articles with trivia sections.

Placement

Editors should not use this template to tag sections they consider trivial (i.e., which topically address something the editor does not think should be covered). In accordance with Wikipedia:Trivia sections, this template should only be placed at the top of sections that contain indiscriminate and unselective lists.

Usage

To help with the categorization of articles, please use the optional date parameter, e.g. {{trivia|date=November 2021}}. Articles tagged with this template without the parameter will eventually be given the parameter by a bot.

The simplest way to add this template to an article is to copy and paste {{trivia|date=November 2021}}

Optional parameters

  • |date=November 2021   Please help with the categorization of articles for cleanup by using this parameter. You can use |date={{subst:DATE}} as a shorthand to enter this parameter. Articles tagged with this template without the parameter will eventually be given the parameter by a bot, but it may not reflect the correct month of tagging.
  • |to=   a.k.a. |2=   Location of page or section to which to suggest moving the relevant material, e.g.: |to=#Filmography or |2=Nocturnal underwater basketweaving#Techniques. If the |small= option is turned on, this information does not display, but may still be useful to editors.
  • |section=   a.k.a. |sect=   If given a positive value (y, yes, 1, true), will change "This article" to "This section". If given some other value, will change it to use that value, e.g. "This table", "This list".
    • |1=   The second of those uses can also be done as the first unnamed or numbered parameter: Script error: No such module "Template link general". or Script error: No such module "Template link general".
  • |small=y   If given a positive value (y, yes, 1, true), makes the template into a smaller box, instead of a banner. Requires explicit definition of the template as applying not to the entire article: Script error: No such module "Template link general". or Script error: No such module "Template link general". or Script error: No such module "Template link general".

Closely related templates

General trivia
Script error: No such module "Template link general". – Suggests relocation of the relevant details in a trivia section, to another section (or article).
Script error: No such module "Template link general". – Same as above, but goes at the top of the trivia section, rather than the top of the article.
Relevance and importance
Script error: No such module "Template link general". – For a section that has wandered from the topic of the article
Script error: No such module "Template link general". – For an article or section containing information whose relevance is disputed.
Script error: No such module "Template link general". – For a section with information that is simply off-topic for the article, and needs removal or relocation to another article.
Script error: No such module "Template link general". – For a particular item that is off-topic needs removal or relocation to another article.
Script error: No such module "Template link general". – For an article or section with poorly cited examples.
Script error: No such module "Template link general". – For a particular instance of a poorly cited example.
Script error: No such module "Template link general". – For a particular item that doesn't seem to belong in the context at all.
Script error: No such module "Template link general". – For a namedropping of someone or something the relevance of which may not be clear to the reader.
Excessive detail
Script error: No such module "Template link general". – For excessive focus on minute details not of interest to our general readership.
Script error: No such module "Template link general". – For sections that are too detailed and need to be summarized.
Script error: No such module "Template link general". – For excessive use of examples.
Script error: No such module "Template link general". – For an indiscriminate "See also" section, most of which should be pruned or integrated into the prose.
Topical trivia
Script error: No such module "Template link general". – For excessive "popular culture" and "media references" sorts of material.
Script error: No such module "Template link general". (or Script error: No such module "Template link general".) – For too many trivial fictional references (or too much "in-universe" detail).
Script error: No such module "Template link general"., Script error: No such module "Template link general". – For excessively detailed plot summaries.
Script error: No such module "Template link general"., Script error: No such module "Template link general". – For excessive detail about particular types of works (other than plot and fictional or in-universe issues).
Script error: No such module "Template link general". – For too much gaming-related trivia.
Script error: No such module "Template link general". – For list that does not follow the Manual of Style for lists of works, e.g. not in chronological order
Script error: No such module "Template link general"., Script error: No such module "Template link general". – For excessive detail about an educational institution.
Script error: No such module "Template link general". – For an indiscriminate list of "famous" people associated in some way with a topic.
Script error: No such module "Template link general". – For local-interest trivia that is unverifiable or otherwise unencyclopedic.
List cleanup
Script error: No such module "Template link general". – Suggests converting into prose a section that consists of a list.
Script error: No such module "Template link general". – For indiscriminate lists that need reduction.
Script error: No such module "Template link general". – For use where a table would be better than a list.


See also


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