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This template will add tagged articles to a cleanup category according to the month and year given.
{{Prose|date=February 2026}} →Category:Articles needing cleanup from February 2026 andCategory:Articles with sections that need to be turned into prose from February 2026.If no date is given, articles will be added to the more generalCategory:Wikipedia cleanup andCategory: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=February 2026}}...would display as:
| This sectionis inlist format but may read better asprose. You can help byconverting this section, if appropriate.Editing help is available.(February 2026) |
Please 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 examplesTemplateData for Prose
Use this maintenance template to indicate that an article is in list format but may read better as prose.
| Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month and year | date | The month and year that the template was placed (in full). "{{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}" inserts the current month and year automatically.
| Line | suggested |
| Affected area | 1 | Text to replace the word "article", usually "section"
| Line | optional |