Template:All plot

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This template is a self-reference.

Usage

• This template can be dated. Usage: {{All plot|date=February 2026}}. If the date is left off a bot will add it.

• To replace the text "article": {{All plot|text|date=February 2026}}.
  • Example: {{All plot|section|date=February 2026}}

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 February 2026 if the date parameter "date=February 2026" is specified.

Tracking categories

• Category:All articles to be expanded (57)

See also

• Wikipedia:How to write a plot summary
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style (writing about fiction)
• Wikipedia:Handling trivia
• Topic-specific guidelines - Films, television series and episodes, anime/manga, novels, comics, video games

Other plot- and fiction-related templates

• {{Plot}}, for plot summaries which are too long or excessively detailed
• {{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
• {{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.
• {{Refimprove example}} – 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).
• {{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 an excessive list of an artist, performer, or studio's works.
• {{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.
• {{Local}} – 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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