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

{{Prose|date=December 2024}} → Category:Articles needing cleanup from December 2024 and Category:Articles with sections that need to be turned into prose from December 2024.

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.

Parameter 1 may be included to replace "article" with a specific term, such as "section" or "table". For example:

{{Prose|section|date=December 2024}}

...would display as:

This section is in list format but may read better as prose. You can help by converting this section, if appropriate. Editing help is available. (December 2024)

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

• {{Create list}} – the opposite of this template
• {{Trivia}} – suggests relocation rather than reformatting of the details in a trivia section
• {{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
• {{Example farm}} – for articles or sections with too many examples

• Wikipedia:Writing better articles
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Trivia sections
• Wikipedia:Handling trivia – essay on trivia in Wikipedia, what it is and how it should be handled
• Wikipedia:"In popular culture" content – essay on "popular culture"–types articles and sections
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Trivia Cleanup – WikiProject designed to clean up long lists of trivia in articles
• Wikipedia:Proseline – essay on avoiding writing prose paragraphs that end up looking like a list anyway
• Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup – index of cleanup templates

Use this maintenance template to indicate that an article is in list format but may read better as prose.

Template parameters[Edit template data]

This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.

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. Example January 2013 Auto value {{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}	Line	suggested
Affected area	1	Text to replace the word "article", usually "section" Example section Auto value section	Line	optional