Template:All plot Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:All_plot

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Usage

This template can be dated. Usage: {{All plot|date=June 2025}}. If the date is left off a bot will add it.

To replace the text "article": {{All plot|text|date=June 2025}}.
- Example: {{All plot|section|date=June 2025}}

Categorisation

When this template is used in the main (article) space it places the article in Category:All articles to be expanded and in a dated category like Category:Articles to be expanded from June 2025 if the date parameter "date=June 2025" is specified.

Tracking categories

Category:All articles to be expanded (65,302)

{{All plot}}, if an article consists entirely or almost entirely of a plot summary
{{Hook}}, if a plot summary is more like a listings magazine hook, or a jacket blurb from a novel.
{{No plot}}, if no plot summary exists
{{More plot}}, if plot summary is insufficient
{{Long plot}}, if plot summary is too long
{{In-universe}}
{{Fiction}}
Wikipedia:Plot-only description of fictional works
Wikipedia:Manual of Style (writing about fiction)
Wikipedia:Template messages/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.
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.

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Template:All plot Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:All_plot

Usage

Categorisation

Tracking categories

See also