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The objective of a summary is to condense a large amount of information into a short, accessible format. It is not to reproduce the experience of reading or watching the story, nor to cover every detail. For those who have not read or seen the story, it should serve as a general overview of the major points. For those who have, it should be detailed enough to refresh their memory—no more.

This template will categorise tagged articles into Category:Wikipedia articles with plot summary needing attention. This template is a self-reference. This template should not be substituted. You can determine the lengths of television episode summaries or a film summary by running the following script.

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.; {{Self-sourcing examples}} – 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.

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Parameter		Description	Type	Status
Scope (e.g. section)	`1`	This parameter allows an editor to replace the default word "article" with another word, usually "section" or "paragraph"	Content	optional
Plural?	`plural`	Set to 'yes' if the article contains multiple plot summaries Example yes Auto value	Boolean	optional
Month and year	`date`	Month and year of tagging; e.g., 'January 2013', but not 'jan13' Auto value `{{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}`	String	suggested

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