Template:Very long
| File:Conversion icon red.svg | This Article may be too long This page may be too long to read and navigate comfortably. Please consider splitting content into sub-articles and using this article for a summary of the key points of the subject. |
Usage
Add {{Very long|date=May 2025}} to the top of the article, below any hatnotes.
smallparameter{{Very long|small=left|date=May 2025}}generates the following smaller-sized template, a left-size box instead of a banner (which is usually only of use with|section=, below):File:Conversion icon red.svg This Article may be too long
This page may be too long to read and navigate comfortably. Please consider splitting content into sub-articles and using this article for a summary of the key points of the subject.
- Section-specific use
- If just a particular section of an article is getting long, it can be tagged by adding the
|section=parameter, or using the{{Very long section}}template variant: {{Very long section}}and{{Very long|section|small=left|date=May 2025}}both render: Template:Very long section
- Readable prose size (in words)
- The readable prose size in words, can be added manually to the template:
{{Very long|words=7,000}}generates the following template:File:Conversion icon red.svg This Article may be too long
This page may be too long to read and navigate comfortably. Please consider splitting content into sub-articles and using this article for a summary of the key points of the subject.
nosplitparameter- Adding
|nosplit=yes(or any other value for that parameter, such as y or true) will suppress mention of splitting the material to new sub-articles, since not all content is suitable for splitting (usually because it would fail SRW:Notability as a stand-alone article).
- Categorization
- This template adds tagged articles to Category:Articles that may be too long.
{{BattleTechWiki:Template index/Splitting/List|noheading=yes}}{{BattleTechWiki:Template index/Merging/List|noheading=yes}}
TemplateData
TemplateData for Very long
Use this cleanup template to indicate that an article may be too long to read and navigate comfortably.
| 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 |
| Don't suggest splitting | nosplit | Enter any text here to remove "splitting content into sub-articles" from the suggested fix, if the content would not be suitable for splitting (usually because it would fail WP:NOTABILITY as a standalone article).
| String | optional |
| Suggested fix | fix | Text to replace the suggested fix ("Please consider splitting content into sub-articles, condensing it, or adding subheadings.")
| String | optional |
| Affected area | 1 | Text to replace the word "article", usually "section"
| String | optional |
| Make template small | small | Enter "left" here to make the template box small and aligned to the left. This also condenses the text and replaces "article" with "section".
| String | optional |
See also
- A list of related cleanup templates at BattleTechWiki:Template index/Cleanup
- {{Sections}}
- {{Subsections}}
- {{Overly detailed}}
- {{Very long section}}