Template:Localist

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Usage

• {{localist|date=January 2026}}
• {{localist|community=[[Community name here]] |date=January 2026}}

Optional parameters

• |date=January 2026   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.
• |community=y   name of the town, city, etc., to which this pertains. Should usually be wikilinked, e.g. |community=[[Madison, Wisconsin]].
• |category= A more specific subcategory of the default, Category:Places of local interest needing cleanup. It must be wikilinked [which is pointless; this template should be fixed to not require this, and cases of this parameter being used fixed to not manually link this way]. You can also use |category=no to suppress category usage, e.g. when using the template as an example.
• |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: {{reduce trivia|section}} or {{reduce 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: {{Localist|sect=y|small=y}} or {{Localist|table|small=yes}} or {{Localist|section="popular restaurants" material|small=1}}

Categorization

Articles using this template will be added to the category "Places of local interest needing cleanup" by default. You can override this with the category parameter.

Please refer to the list of cleanup templates and apply the best template available for your purpose. This will help reduce confusion when other editors attempt to improve the article.

Tracking categories

• Category:Places of local interest needing cleanup (63)

See also

• Wikipedia:Notability
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style (trivia sections)
• Wikipedia:"In popular culture" content – essay on "popular culture"-types articles and sections.

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. {{Unfocused}} – for an article which lacks focus or has no particular topic. 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. {{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 {{Self-sourcing examples}} – For an article or section with poorly cited popular culture examples. {{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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