Template:Cleanup higher education/doc

Usage

The simplest way to add this template to an article is to copy and paste {{Cleanup higher education}} at the top of the article.

Optional parameters include:

• A parameter to change the word "article", for instance {{Cleanup higher education|section}} or {{Cleanup higher education|disambiguation page}}.

• Specific problems can be identified in the reason field.

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 tag.

Alternative

This template is reserved primarily for articles with problems arising from not following WP:UNIGUIDE. It should be used when a more specific tag is not suitable.

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

Notes

• This template will add tagged articles to Category:Higher education articles needing cleanup.
• This template is a self-reference.
• Please do not subst: this template.
• Use this tag when the article needs improvement per WP:BETTER according to WP:UNIGUIDE. Articles that violate policy need more direct action.

Tracking categories

• Category:All pages needing cleanup (33,714)
• Category:Higher education articles needing cleanup (51)

Redirects

• {{Cleanup college}}
• {{Cleanup university}}

See also

• {{Cleanup school}}
• Wikipedia:Cleanup process
• Wikipedia:Clarify the cleanup

Other trivia-related templates

General trivia

{{Trivia}} – Suggests relocation of the relevant details in a trivia section, to another section (or article).

{{Trivia section}} – Same as above, but goes at the top of the trivia section, rather than the top of the article.

{{Unfocused}} – for an article which lacks focus or has no particular topic.

Relevance and importance

{{Off topic}} – For a section that has wandered from the topic of the article

{{Content}} – For an article or section containing information whose relevance is disputed.

{{Importance section}} – For a section with information that is simply off-topic for the article, and needs removal or relocation to another article.

{{Importance inline}} – For a particular item that is off-topic needs removal or relocation to another article.

{{Better source example}} – For a particular instance of a poorly cited example.

{{Relevance inline}} – For a particular item that doesn't seem to belong in the context at all.

{{Non sequitur}} – For a namedropping of someone or something the relevance of which may not be clear to the reader.

Excessive detail

{{Overly detailed}} – For excessive focus on minute details not of interest to our general readership.

{{Summarize section}} – For sections that are too detailed and need to be summarized.

{{Example farm}} – For excessive use of examples.

{{Too many see alsos}} – For an indiscriminate "See also" section, most of which should be pruned or integrated into the prose.

Topical trivia

{{Self-sourcing examples}} – For an article or section with poorly cited popular culture examples.

{{In popular culture}} – For excessive "popular culture" and "media references" sorts of material.

{{Fiction trivia}} (or {{In-universe}}) – For too many trivial fictional references (or too much "in-universe" detail).

{{Long plot}}, {{All plot}} – For excessively detailed plot summaries.

{{Cleanup book}}, {{Cleanup film}} – For excessive detail about particular types of works (other than plot and fictional or in-universe issues).

{{Game trivia}} – For too much gaming-related trivia.

{{MOSLOW}} – For list that does not follow the Manual of Style for lists of works, e.g. not in chronological order

{{Cleanup university}}, {{Cleanup school}} – For excessive detail about an educational institution.

{{Famous}} – For an indiscriminate list of "famous" people associated in some way with a topic.

{{Localist}} – For local-interest trivia that is unverifiable or otherwise unencyclopedic.

List cleanup

{{Prose}} – Suggests converting into prose a section that consists of a list.

{{Cleanup list}} – For indiscriminate lists that need reduction.

{{List to table}} – For use where a table would be better than a list.

• Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup