Template:Promotional tone

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When to use

Add this to articles that need help from other editors because they contain promotional language or material. This tag only applies to articles that are promoting a subject (rather than advertising something).

This template should be used if the problem is described by either, or both, of the following bullet points (from WP:PROMO):

• Y Advocacy, propaganda, or recruitment of any kind: commercial, political, scientific, religious, national, sports-related, or otherwise. An article can report objectively about such things, as long as an attempt is made to describe the topic from a neutral point of view.
• Y Self-promotion.

This template should not be used in an article if the following bullet point describes the problem ({{Advert}} should be used in this case):

• N Advertising, marketing or public relations. Information about people, organizations, issues, and products must be written in an objective and unbiased style, free of puffery.

This template adds articles to Category:Articles with a promotional tone.

How to use

• Place {{Promotional tone|date=May 2024}} at the top of the article.
• You can adjust the default "article" text with something more specific, such as: {{Promotional tone|article's "Controversy" section}}.

See also

• {{Advert}} – Template with wording more suitable for articles that are advertising something (for instance, a product)
• {{Advert section}} – Same as above, but for tagging sections specifically
• {{Advert inline}} – For marking specific promotional language
• {{Essay}} – For opinion pieces
• {{External links}} – For marking sections with inappropriate use of external links
• {{Fanpov}}
• {{Like resume}} – For marking biographical articles that promote the subject
• {{List spam}} – For marking lists that contain spammy entries
• {{News release}}
• {{Peacock}}
• {{Promotion inline}} – For tagging non-advertising promotional material
• {{Promotional source}} – For tagging promotional sources that have been cited in an article
• {{Spam}} – For warning spammers on their talk pages
• {{Travel guide}}

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam
• Wikipedia:WikiProject External links
• Wikipedia:Cleanup process
• Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup

TemplateData

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

TemplateData for Promotional tone

Template for tagging articles with promotional language or material

Template parameters[Edit template data]

This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.

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" Default article	String	optional
Type	type 2	To replace the text "promotional tone" with another phrase Default promotional tone Auto value	String	optional
Month and year	date	Month and year of tagging; e.g., 'January 2013', but not 'jan13' Auto value {{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}	String	required

Acknowledgements

This documentation was adapted from the documentation for the template Advert; specifically, this revision.

The template Promotional tone was adapted from Advert; specifically, this revision.

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