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This template is used on approximately 3,300 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 Wikipedia talk:Twinkle. The standard installation of Twinkle relies on this template. Thank you. DescriptionThis template will add tagged articles to a cleanup category according to the month and year given.
Usage{{Prose|date=July 2025}} → Category:Articles needing cleanup from July 2025 and Category:Articles with sections that need to be turned into prose from July 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.
Parameter 1 may be included to replace "article" with a specific term, such as "section" or "table". For example:
{{Prose|section|date=July 2025}}
...would display as:
This section
is in list format but may read better as prose.
You can help by converting this section, if appropriate. Editing help is available. (July 2025) Closely related templatesPlease keep this template's messaging consistent with the related templates:
{{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 examplesThis is the
TemplateDatafor this template used by
TemplateWizard,
VisualEditorand other tools.
See a monthly parameter usage reportfor
Template:Prosein articles based on its TemplateData.
TemplateData for Prose
Use this maintenance template to indicate that an article is in list format but may read better as prose.
Template parameters[Edit template data]
This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.
Parameter Description Type Status Month and yeardate
The month and year that the template was placed (in full). "{{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}" inserts the current month and year automatically.
{{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}
1
Text to replace the word "article", usually "section"
section
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