Template:Table section needs prose

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Description

This template will add tagged articles to a cleanup category according to the month and year given.

Usage

{{Table section needs prose|date=January 2026}} → Category:Articles needing cleanup from January 2026 and Category:Articles with sections that need to be turned into prose from January 2026.

If no date is given, articles will be added to the more general Category:Wikipedia cleanup and Category:Articles with sections that need to be turned into prose.

Closely related templates

Please keep this template's messaging consistent with the related templates:

• {{Prose}} – for use where prose is preferable to a list
• {{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

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData documentation for this template used by VisualEditor and other tools; see the monthly parameter usage report for this template.

TemplateData for Table section needs prose

<templatedata> { "params": { "1": {}, "": {}, "date": { "label": "Date", "autovalue": "{{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}", "required": true, "suggested": true } }, "description": "This template generates a tag to indicate that the article needs a prose summary of the table." } </templatedata>