Template:Cleanup/doc

Description

These articles should be reformatted or otherwise improved for grammar, typographical errors, organization, readability, and other non-content related changes. Compare Category:Needing_Updates where the content itself needs work or is innacurate.

Basic Syntax

Type {{Cleanup}} at the top of the page.

Sample output

{{Cleanup}} produces this banner:

This article should be cleaned up or improved. The reason is: unspecified

Optional descriptors

Place a reason after the first pipe (the symbol | ), and the parameter date= to indicate the month of the request. Copy this format, replacing with a reason, and it will automatically add the month of the request:

{{Cleanup|<Place your reason here!>|date={{subst:#time: F Y}} }}

Sample output

{{Cleanup|overly verbose with multiple redundancies.|date={{#time: F Y}} produces this banner:

This article should be cleaned up or improved, as of December 2025.
The reason is: overly verbose with multiple redundancies.

Putting this template on a page also adds it to the Candidates for Cleanup category.