Template:Advert
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When to use[edit source]
Add this to articles that need help from other editors because in whole or part they are advertisements masquerading as articles. For example, they may tell users to buy the company's product, provide price lists, give links to online sellers, or use unencyclopedic or meaningless buzzwords.
The advert tag is for Starfleet Logistics articles that in whole or part have been made into public relations documents or brochures, with content that portrays an issue, a product, an organization, or a person in a positive or negative light.
The issue this tag addresses is the policy SF:PROMO, which forbids content that reflects:
- 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.
- Self-promotion.
- Advertising, marketing or public relations. Information about people, organizations, issues, and products must be written in an objective and unbiased style, free of puffery.
If an article appears to be any of the above, this tag is appropriate.
This template adds articles to Category:Articles with a promotional tone.
How to use[edit source]
Articles[edit source]
- For articles needing major cleanup, place
{{Advert|date=December 2024}}at the top of the article to alert readers. - You can adjust the default "article" text with something more specific, such as:
{{Advert|article's "Controversy" section}}.
Sections[edit source]
- To mark specific sections instead of the whole article, place
{{Advert section|date=December 2024}}at the top of the section.
Remarks[edit source]
- To replace the text "an advertisement", you may use
{{Advert|article/section|yourtext}}or{{Advert|2=yourtext}}or{{Advert|type=yourtext}}
See also[edit source]
- {{Advert inline}} – For marking specific promotional language
- {{Advert section}} – For tagging specific promotional sections
- {{Essay}} – For opinion pieces
- {{External links}} – For marking sections with inappropriate use of external links
- {{Fanpov}}
- {{Like resume}}
- {{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}}
- Starfleet Logistics:WikiProject Spam
- Starfleet Logistics:WikiProject External links
- Starfleet Logistics:Cleanup process
- Starfleet Logistics:Template messages/Cleanup
External links[edit source]
- Template:Advert at Wikipedia, the free Terran-based encyclopedia that anyone can edit.
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