Template:Game trivia

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Usage

This template is used when an article has too much or indiscriminately-listed gaming trivia, and should be cleaned up according to the Wikipedia trivia guidelines and/or Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Video games.

Tracking categories

• Category:All pages needing cleanup (5)
• Category:Video game cleanup (0)

See also

• Wikipedia:How to write a plot summary
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style (writing about fiction)
• Wikipedia:Handling trivia
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Article guidelines

Other plot- and fiction-related templates

{{All plot}}, if an article consists entirely or almost entirely of a plot summary {{Hook}}, if a plot summary is more like a listings magazine hook, or a jacket blurb from a novel. {{No plot}}, if no plot summary exists {{More plot}}, if plot summary is insufficient {{Long plot}}, if plot summary is too long {{In-universe}} {{Fiction}} Wikipedia:Plot-only description of fictional works Wikipedia:Manual of Style (writing about fiction) Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup

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. 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. {{Refexample}} – For an article or section with poorly cited examples. {{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 {{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.

• {{Cleanup film}}
• {{Cleanup book}}

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