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This article may contain colloquial terms, phrases or words. Articles should use literal, encyclopedic language. Please improve this article or discuss this issue on the talk page. See Wikipedia's guide to writing better articles for suggestions. (June 2026) (Learn how and when to remove this message)
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Contents

  • 1 Usage
  • 2 Template data
  • 3 Notes
  • 4 See also

Usage

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{{Colloquial|date=June 2026}}

Do not subst: this template.

See the template data section for parameters.

Template data

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This banner cleanup template is used to tag articles or sections of articles which contain colloquial or non-literal language.

Template parameters[Edit template data]

This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.

ParameterDescriptionTypeStatus
11 scope

What this template applies to. For instance, entering "section" will make the template read "This section ..."

Default
article
Stringoptional
datedate

The date this tag was added, in the format (full month name) (full year number) Example: January 2015

Auto value
{{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}
Daterequired

Notes

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This template will add tagged articles to dated subcategories of Category:Wikipedia articles with style issues by month and to Category:All articles with style issues.

See also

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{{Colloquialism}} – inline template to tag specific words or phrases which are colloquial or cannot be interpreted literally without the sentence being nonsensical

The above documentation is transcluded from Template:Colloquial/doc. (edit | history)
Editors can experiment in this template's sandbox (create | mirror) and testcases (create) pages.
Add categories to the /doc subpage. Subpages of this template.
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