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Usage
{{Recategorize|date=July 2026}}
Put this template on the top of articles that have too many categories (WP:OVERCAT), or where an article is in categories and their subcategories.
This template will add tagged articles to Category:Too many categories.
- This template is a self-reference.
- Please do not subst: this template.
See also
The "Category Cleanup" templates
- {{Uncategorized}}
- {{Uncategorized stub}}
- {{Check category}}
- {{Recategorize}}
- {{Improve categories}}
- {{Category diffuse}}, for use on category pages
Other common cleanup templates
- Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup
- Template:Advert
- Template:All plot
- Template:Anachronism
- Template:Autobiography
- Template:Citation style
- Template:Cleanup list
- Template:Cleanup rewrite
- Template:COI
- Template:Confusing
- Template:Connected contributor
- Template:Context
- Template:Copy edit
- Template:Expert needed
- Template:Fiction
- Template:Globalize
- Template:Incoherent
- Template:Missing information
- Template:Manual
- Template:More citations needed
- Template:Notability
- Template:Primary sources
- Template:Self-contradictory
- Template:Technical
- Template:Tone
- Template:Uncategorized
- Template:Uncited categories
- Template:Underlinked
- Template:Undisclosed paid
- Template:Unfocused
- Template:Unreferenced
