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This section contains an excessive or unencyclopedic gallery of images. Please help improve it by removing unnecessary or indiscriminate images, and by moving relevant images beside adjacent text in accordance with Wikipedia's Manual of Style. (June 2026) (Learn how and when to remove this message)
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Usage

Place this template at the top of a section that seems to form an image gallery in violation of the policy on image galleries.

This template is a self-reference. Do not subst this template.

This template can take an optional date parameter in the format {{Cleanup gallery|date = <month> <year>}}. The date is not required and is not currently used for categorization.

Example using current date

Template:

{{Cleanup gallery|date=June 2026}}

Output:

This section contains an excessive or unencyclopedic gallery of images. Please help improve it by removing unnecessary or indiscriminate images, and by moving relevant images beside adjacent text in accordance with Wikipedia's Manual of Style. (June 2026) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

To automatically include the date for when the tag was added use the following:

{{Cleanup gallery|date={{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}}}

Redirects

  • {{Excessive gallery}}
  • {{Imagefarm}}
  • {{Indiscriminate gallery}}

See also

  • {{Cleanup images}}
  • {{Cleanup image captions}}
  • {{Too many photos}}
  • {{Too many charts}}
  • {{Infobox too large}}
  • Wikipedia:Template index/Cleanup
  • Wikipedia:Responsible tagging
  • Wikipedia:Tagging pages for problems

Place this template at the top of a section that seems to form an [[WP:PIC#Galleries|image gallery]] in violation of the [[WP:IG|policy]] on image galleries.

Template parameters[Edit template data]

This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.

ParameterDescriptionTypeStatus
Datedate

An optional date parameter in the format <month> <year>. The date is not required and is not currently used for categorization. Note that this should autofill by default upon saving when using the visual editor.

Default
{{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}}}
Example
December 2019
Datesuggested
The above documentation is transcluded from Template:Cleanup gallery/doc. (edit | history)
Editors can experiment in this template's sandbox (edit | diff) and testcases (create) pages.
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