Template:Trivia/doc

This template sorts articles into Category:Articles with trivia sections.

Placement

Editors should not use this template to tag sections they consider trivial (i.e., which topically address something the editor does not think should be covered). In accordance with Wikipedia:Trivia sections, this template should only be placed at the top of sections that contain indiscriminate and unselective lists.

Usage

To help with the categorization of articles, please use the optional date parameter, e.g. {{trivia|date=December 2024}}. Articles tagged with this template without the parameter will eventually be given the parameter by a bot.

The simplest way to add this template to an article is to copy and paste {{trivia|date=December 2024}}

Optional parameters

• |date=December 2024   Please help with the categorization of articles for cleanup by using this parameter. You can use |date={{subst:DATE}} as a shorthand to enter this parameter. Articles tagged with this template without the parameter will eventually be given the parameter by a bot, but it may not reflect the correct month of tagging.
• |to=   a.k.a. |2=   Location of page or section to which to suggest moving the relevant material, e.g.: |to=#Filmography or |2=Nocturnal underwater basketweaving#Techniques. If the |small= option is turned on, this information does not display, but may still be useful to editors.
• |section=   a.k.a. |sect=   If given a positive value (y, yes, 1, true), will change "This article" to "This section". If given some other value, will change it to use that value, e.g. "This table", "This list".
  • |1=   The second of those uses can also be done as the first unnamed or numbered parameter: {{trivia|section}} or {{trivia|1=timeline|2=History of burritos}}
• |small=y   If given a positive value (y, yes, 1, true), makes the template into a smaller box, instead of a banner. Requires explicit definition of the template as applying not to the entire article: {{trivia|sect=y|small=y}} or {{trivia|table|small=yes}} or {{trivia|section="In popular culture" material|small=1}}

Closely 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.

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.

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

{{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

{{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.

See also

• Wikipedia:Manual of Style (trivia sections)
• Wikipedia:Handling trivia – Essay on trivia in Wikipedia, what it is and how it should be handled
• Wikipedia:"In popular culture" content – Essay on "popular culture"-types articles and sections
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Trivia Cleanup – Wikiproject designed to clean up long lists of trivia in articles
• Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not § Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information – Wikipedia policy on excessively detailed information
• Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not Fandom and Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not TV Tropes – two essays about what Wikipedia is not
• Wikipedia:Why is BFDI not on Wikipedia? – an essay about a highly popular web series that has no independent reliable sources for Wikipedia
• Template:Example farm – For articles or sections with too many examples
• Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup – Index of cleanup templates