Template:Very long/doc

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{{Long}}
{{Toobig}}
{{Toolong}}
{{Too-long}}
{{Too long}}
{{VeryLong}}

See Wikipedia:Article size for more information on this topic.

Usage

Add {{Very long|date=January 2026}} to the top of the article, below any hatnotes.

small parameter

{{Very long|small=left|date=January 2026}} generates the following smaller-sized template, a left-size box instead of a banner (which is usually only of use with |section=, below):

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=January 2026}} both render:

Readable prose size (in words)

The readable prose size in words, calculated with the help of tools like Prosesize or Shubinator's DYK tool, can be added manually to the template:

{{Very long|words=7,000}} generates the following template:

nosplit parameter: 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 WP:Notability as a stand-alone article).

Categorization: This template adds tagged articles to Category:Articles that may be too long, or one of its dated subcategories.

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. See a monthly parameter usage report for Template:Very long in articles based on its TemplateData.

TemplateData for Very long

<templatedata> {

   "description": "Use this cleanup template to indicate that an article may be too long to read and navigate comfortably.",

"format": "inline", "params": { "date": { "label": "Month and year", "description": "The month and year that the template was placed (in full). \"{{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}\" inserts the current month and year automatically.", "type": "line", "autovalue": "{{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}", "example": "January 2013", "suggested": true }, "nosplit": { "label": "Don't suggest splitting", "description": "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).", "type": "string", "autovalue": "y", "example": "y" }, "fix": { "label": "Suggested fix", "description": "Text to replace the suggested fix (\"Please consider splitting content into sub-articles, condensing it, or adding subheadings.\")", "type": "string", "example": "Please consider splitting content into sub-articles, condensing it, or adding subheadings." }, "1": { "label": "Affected area", "description": "Text to replace the word \"article\", usually \"section\"", "type": "string", "autovalue": "section", "example": "section" }, "small": { "label": "Make template small", "description": "Enter \"left\" here to make the template box small and aligned to the left. This also condenses the text and replaces \"article\" with \"section\".", "type": "string", "autovalue": "left", "example": "left" } }, "paramOrder": [ "date",

       "nosplit",
       "fix",
       "1",
       "small"

] } </templatedata>

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