Misplaced Pages

Revision as of 14:57, 16 March 2012

This template may require cleanup to meet Misplaced Pages's quality standards. (Consider using more specific cleanup instructions.) Please help improve this template if you can. The talk page may contain suggestions.

This template should be substituted only if you want to automatically add the "date=" parameter.

This template is used on approximately 9,400 pages and changes may be widely noticed. Test changes in the template's /sandbox or /testcases subpages, or in your own user subpage. Consider discussing changes on the talk page before implementing them.

Any breaking changes to this template, including moving it or nominating it for deletion, must be communicated in advance to Twinkle's users and maintainers at Misplaced Pages talk:Twinkle. The standard installation of Twinkle relies on this template. Thank you.

This template uses Lua: Module:Unsubst (sandbox)

When to use

This tag is intended to identify pages that need wikification or the correction of spelling, grammar, typographical errors, tone, and other similar, non-content-focused changes.

Articles that violate policy need more direct action. Other templates, such as {{POV}}, are better suited to content disputes.

Alternatives

If the problem is correctable with the skills you already possess, consider being bold and fixing it yourself, rather than applying this template and leaving it for someone else to clean up.

If you feel that an article needs a significant amount of cleanup, you can post it to WikiProject Cleanup. It is more effective than using {{Cleanup}} as there is a backlog for the tags. Editors will give your submitted article a cleanup and fix any problems associated with it.

How to use

{{Cleanup}} should be used with the following two parameters:

• |date=: the month and year (e.g. January 2025) when the Cleanup template was added to the article; this helps to figure out how long an article has been tagged for cleanup.
• |reason=: the reason for requesting cleanup. This is useful for editors in case the reason for requesting a cleanup is not immediately obvious.

Optional parameters include:

• |talk= or |talksection=: the section of the talk page explaining what needs to be done. Add a new section to the talk page explaining the type and extent of clean-up required, so editors will know what to address and when to remove this template. This parameter's value is not used when {{Cleanup}} appears inside {{Multiple issues}}.
• |1= (or an empty parameter): changes the default descriptor (i.e., "article"). For example, {{Cleanup|section}} changes it to "section".
• |small=: enter 'left' here to turn the template into a small box on the left side of the screen.
• |nocat=: enter 'true' here to prevent the template from adding cleanup categories to the article.

The template should be placed at the top of the article requiring a cleanup. If practicable, please use a more specific cleanup template. Because {{Cleanup}} is vague, specific problems should be identified in the reason field; a more detailed explanation of what needs to be done can be provided on the article's talk page. An article's {{Cleanup}} template may be removed without the problems being fixed if it is not possible to identify what needs to be cleaned up.

If this template is substituted, the end result consists of an unsubstituted form including an automatically filled date= parameter with the current date.

Examples

For example, {{Cleanup|reason=The article is full of incorrect capitalization.|date=January 2025}} would display as:

This article may require cleanup to meet Misplaced Pages's quality standards. The specific problem is: The article is full of incorrect capitalization.. Please help improve this article if you can. The talk page may contain suggestions. (January 2025)

The template detects which namespace it is used in and changes accordingly:

Article	‹ Whether to make the |reason= mandatory for the {{cleanup}} template is being discussed. See the request for comment to help reach a consensus.› This article may require cleanup to meet Misplaced Pages's quality standards. The specific problem is: lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.. Please help improve this article if you can. The talk page may contain suggestions. (January 2025)
Category	‹ Whether to make the |reason= mandatory for the {{cleanup}} template is being discussed. See the request for comment to help reach a consensus.› This category may require cleanup to meet Misplaced Pages's quality standards. The specific problem is: lorem ipsum dolor sit amet!. Please help improve this category if you can. The talk page may contain suggestions. (January 2025)
Template	‹ Whether to make the |reason= mandatory for the {{cleanup}} template is being discussed. See the request for comment to help reach a consensus.› This template may require cleanup to meet Misplaced Pages's quality standards. The specific problem is: lorem ipsum dolor sit amet?. Please help improve this template if you can. The talk page may contain suggestions. (January 2025)

The descriptor (on the preceding example "template") can be changed from its default using the first parameter, for instance {{Cleanup|section}} or {{Cleanup|disambiguation page}}.

TemplateData

TemplateData for Cleanup

Categorization

This template will add pages on which it is used to a specific category Category:Articles needing cleanup containing pages needing cleanup or a dated subcategory thereof.

Tracking categories

• Category:All pages needing cleanup (34,716)

For tracking purposes it also categorises the page according to whether a reason code has been given.

See also

• {{Cleanup AfD}} – for AfD discussions that closed as "keep", but require cleanup
• {{Cleanup image}} – for images that need cleanup
• {{Cleanup reorganize}} – for articles that need a reorganization in addition to cleanup
• {{Cleanup see also}} – for "See also" sections
• {{Cleanup merge}} – after mergers
• {{Multiple issues}}
• {{Spacing}}
• Misplaced Pages:Clarify the cleanup
• Misplaced Pages:Cleanup process
• Misplaced Pages:Template messages/Cleanup
• List of cleanup templates

Redirects

• {{Attention}}
• {{Attention (on talk page)}}
• {{Attention see talk}}
• {{Attn}}
• {{CU}}
• {{Clean}}
• {{Clean up}}
• {{Clean-up}}
• {{Cleancat}}
• {{Cleanup-article}}
• {{Cleanup-because}}
• {{Cleanup-date}}
• {{Cleanup-quality}}
• {{Cleanup-reason}}
• {{Cleanup-since}}
• {{Clu}}
• {{Cu}}
• {{Improve}}
• {{Index-cleanup}}
• {{Quality}}
• {{Tidy}}

Wrappers

• {{Cleanup section}}
  • {{Cleanup-section}}
  • {{Clean-up section}}

• Templates used by Twinkle
• Cleanup templates