Template:Needs Rewrite
Usage
To provide a reason for the needed rewrite, use:
{{Cleanup rewrite|Reason for rewrite|article or section|date=November 2024}}
 | This article or section may need to be rewritten to comply with Wikipedia's quality standards, as Reason for rewrite. (November 2024) |
To mark a section for rewrite without a reason, use:
{{Cleanup rewrite|2=section|date=November 2024}}
| This section may need to be rewritten to comply with Wikipedia's quality standards. (November 2024) |
To mark an article for rewrite without a reason, use:
{{Cleanup rewrite|date=November 2024}}
| This article may need to be rewritten to comply with Wikipedia's quality standards. (November 2024) |
This template adds tagged articles to Category:Wikipedia articles needing rewrite.
Tracking categories
Aliases
- Template:Section rewrite
- Also known as... (list of all redirects to this template that may also be used)
See also
- Template:Citation style
- Template:Cleanup list
- Template:Confusing
- Template:Context
- Template:Copy edit
- Template:Fiction
- Template:Globalize
- Template:Notability
- Template:Primary sources
- Template:Rewriting
- Template:Self-contradictory
- Template:Technical
- Template:Tone
- Template:Uncategorized
- Template:Underlinked
- Template:Unreferenced
TemplateData
TemplateData for Cleanup rewrite
Use this cleanup template to indicate that an article may need to be rewritten to comply with Wikipedia's quality standards.
| Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month and year | date | The month and year that the template was placed (in full). "{{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}" inserts the current month and year automatically.
| Line | suggested |
| Reason | 1 | The reason why the article may need to be rewritten
| String | optional |
| Section? | section | Enter "yes" here to replace the word "article" with "section".
| Line | optional |
| Affected area | 2 | Custom text to replace the word "article" in the template
| Line | optional |
| Make template small | small | Enter "left" here to make the template box small and aligned to the left.
| Line | optional |