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This article's tone or style may not reflect the encyclopedic tone used on Wikipedia. Relevant discussion may be found on the talk page. See Wikipedia's guide to writing better articles for suggestions. (October 2023) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)
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If an article is not written in an encyclopedia-like style, add the {{tone}} template at the top. This template creates a banner stating the problem at the top of the article's page, and also adds its tagged articles to one of Wikipedia's administrative categories: Category:Wikipedia articles with style issues (shortcut to that category: CAT:STYLE).

For more about the way an encyclopedia's article is written, see Wikipedia's Manual of Style or Wikipedia:Template index/Cleanup § Style of writing.

Note: This template is a self-reference, and should not be substituted.

Contents

  • 1 Usage
    • 1.1 Specific area
    • 1.2 Linking to a section on the talk page
  • 2 Notes
  • 3 Redirects
  • 4 TemplateData
  • 5 See also
    • 5.1 Lists of related article templates
    • 5.2 Lists of other types of article templates
    • 5.3 Templates that might be a better fit than this one

Usage

{{Tone}} or {{Tone|{{subst:DATE}}}}

Specific area

To make the banner apply to a more specific area, add |section, or |article:

{{Tone|section}}, or to include the date (recommended), {{Tone|section|{{subst:DATE}}}}
{{Tone|article}}, or to include the date (recommended), {{Tone|article|{{subst:DATE}}}}

Linking to a section on the talk page

To link to a relevant discussion on the article's Talk page, add the |talk= parameter. The argument (the part after the equals sign) can be either a section title on the article's own talk page, or the name of another page where discussion appears (with or without a specific section):

{{Tone|talk=Discussion of tone issues}}
{{Tone|talk=Talk:Another Article#Relevant discussion section}}

Notes

This template will add tagged articles to dated subcategories of Category:Wikipedia articles with style issues by month and to Category:All articles with style issues.

Redirects

The following templates are redirects to this template and will display the same message:

  • {{Cleanup tone}}
  • {{Cleanup-tone}}
  • {{Formal}}
  • {{Formal tone}}
  • {{Inappropriate tone}}
  • {{Inappropriatetone}}
  • {{Unencyclopædic tone}}
  • {{Unencyclopedic tone}}

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. Click here to see a monthly parameter usage report for this template in articles based on this TemplateData.

TemplateData for Tone

Use this template to indicate that an article is not written in an encyclopedia-like style.

Template parameters[Edit template data]

This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.

ParameterDescriptionTypeStatus
Month and yeardate

Month and year of tagging; e.g., 'January 2013', but not 'jan13'

Example
January 2013
Auto value
{{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}
Stringsuggested
Type (e.g., section)1

Text to replace the word "article", usually "section"

Example
section
Auto value
section
Stringoptional
Section name on talk pagetalk

Section name on talk page where further information or discussion can be found

Stringoptional

See also

  • Wikipedia:Responsible tagging
  • Wikipedia:Tagging pages for problems
  • Wikipedia:Twinkle

Lists of related article templates

  • Wikipedia:Template index/Cleanup
  • Wikipedia:Template index/Sources of articles

Lists of other types of article templates

There are also messaging and tagging templates available for:

  • merging articles;
  • moving articles;
  • splitting articles; and
  • translating articles.

Templates that might be a better fit than this one

  • Template:Advert for articles on notable topics that sound too much 'like an advertisement'
  • Template:Cleanup list
  • Template:Cleanup rewrite
  • Template:Confusing
  • Template:Context for articles that need to provide more context and general information in the lead
  • Template:Copy edit for multiple problems with grammar, style, cohesion, tone or spelling; least specific template, and so least helpful in identifying problem
  • Template:Fiction for articles that confuse fact and fiction
  • Template:Inappropriate person for articles using "I", "we", or "you"
  • Template:Notability for articles that are probably not notable. ({{Importance}} is now repurposed and should not be used in this context.)
  • Template:Self-contradictory
  • Template:Technical for articles or sections with excessive jargon or not enough explanation for the readers outside that article's specialty
  • Template:Tone inline to tag specific statements within an article
  • Template:Unreferenced for articles with zero references (use {{refimprove}} for articles with insufficient or weak references)
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Wikipedia's tagged articles: backlog by template's category

Wikipedia:Backlog lists tasks that should be done to improve Wikipedia (assuming the cleanup templates were placed correctly). Helping reduce backlogs is an important issue, so please feel free to help out.


Click any linked number for that category's articles prioritized by their number of incoming links.

Backlog categories

  • General
  • Administrative
  • Assessment
  • Stub sorting
  • Template parameter

Lacking references

  • Needs references: 118,785
  • Needs references (BLP): 1,405
  • Needs more references: 431,751
  • Needs more references (BLP): 45,789
  • Needs in-text citations: 102,478
  • Needs reliable references: 85,150
  • Has unsourced quotes: 1,223
  • Has unsourced statements: 502,135
  • Fix one!

Accuracy

  • Uses broken or outdated citations: 182
  • Needs factual verification: 4,962
  • Needs references list: 12
  • Needs references clean up: 1,550
  • Accuracy disputes: 15,425
  • Neutrality disputed: 7,660
  • Needs updating: 36,279
  • Has original research: 16,499
  • Self-contradictory: 664

Content

  • Copied and pasted: 132
  • Needs context: 2,774
  • Needs coordinates: 93,465
  • Too technical: 3,255
  • Uses improper non-free content: 101
  • Uses in-universe perspective: 1,237
  • Plot summary needs attention: 6,064
  • Has trivia sections: 331
  • Of unclear notability: 58,703
  • Popular low quality articles (top 5000 by pageviews with low ORES class predictions)

Links

  • Has dead external links: 278,390
  • Needs external links cleanup: 2,337

Layout

  • Needs expansion: 67,030
  • Needs to be merged: 1,463
  • Needs to be split: 744

Style

  • Needs clarification: 5,445
  • Needs copy edit: 1,927
  • Has peacock terms: 3,401
  • Uses promotional tone: 24,799
  • Has weasel words: 17,946
  • With style issues: 20,269

File description

  • Copy to Wikimedia Commons: 106,677
  • Needs author: 6,957

File quality

  • Has inappropriate JPEG compression: 2,501
  • Logos that should be in SVG format: 3,153
  • Should be in PNG format: 255
  • Has watermarks: 40
  • Has borders: 19

Non-free file use

  • Needs size reduction: 8

File licensing

  • Has disputed copyright information: 607

Meta

  • Biographies without "listas" parameter: 1,497

Quality content

  • Featured article candidates: 50
  • Featured article review: 21
  • Featured list candidates: 28
  • Unreviewed good article nominations: 310

Other

  • Needs cleanup: 34,381
  • Needs cleanup (disambiguations): 9
  • Needs expert attention: 1,269
  • Is orphaned: 73,708
  • Needs to be wikified: 42,441

New articles

  • Articles for creation: 3,557

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