Template:Cleanup/doc

Description

These articles should be reformatted or otherwise improved for grammar, typographical errors, organization, readability, and other non-content related changes.

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

Dependencies

Uses:

{{Banner}}

Syntax

{{Cleanup|<reason>|<date= month year>}}

reason (optional) - Reason why the page need cleanup, If omitted defaults to unspecified.

date (optional) - Month when the banner is placed

Sample output

{{Cleanup}} gives...

This article should be cleaned up or improved

{{Cleanup|Overly verbose with multiple redundancies}} gives...

This article should be cleaned up or improved.
The reason is: Overly verbose with multiple redundancies

{{Cleanup|Overly verbose with multiple redundancies|date= February 2017}} gives...

This article should be cleaned up or improved, as of February 2017.
The reason is: Overly verbose with multiple redundancies

{{Cleanup||date= February 2017}} gives...

This article should be cleaned up or improved, as of February 2017.
The reason is: unspecified

See also

• {{Update}}, for pages which need facts checked, numbers updated, or entire sections altered, to reflect game changes.

Template data

This is the TemplateData documentation for this template used by VisualEditor and other tools.

Banner to mark an article for reformatting, improve for grammar, typographical errors, organization, readability, and other non-content related changes. Putting this template on a page also adds it to the Candidates for cleanup category.

Template parameters

This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
Reason	1	Reason why the article is in need of clean up or improvement Example Lots of spelling errors.	Content	suggested
Date	date	Date the banner is added or updated. In month year format. Shows Semantic MediaWiki code in preview, got fixed on save. Example June 2025 Auto value {{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}	Date	suggested