Template:Promotional

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For the calendar era template, see Template:CE.

This template is about articles with a promotional tone. For the template for non-free promotional images, see Template:Non-free promotional.

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Shortcuts

{{Ad Template:Ad }}
{{Advertising Template:Advertising }}
{{Advertisement Template:Advertisement }}
{{Promotion Template:Promotion }}
{{Promo Template:Promo }}

Spam warnings
{{welcomespam }} {{uw-refspam }} {{uw-spam1 }} {{uw-spam2 }} {{uw-spam3 }} {{uw-spam4 }} {{uw-spam4im }}
Advertising warnings
{{uw-advert1 }} {{uw-advert2 }} {{uw-advert3 }} {{uw-advert4 }}
Article tags
{{promotional }} {{promotional section }} {{how-to }} {{no more links }} {{spam link }} {{db-g11 }} (for listing at CSD)
Policy & Project
Wikipedia:Spam Wikipedia:External links Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam
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When to use

Add this to articles that need help from other editors because in whole or part they are written in a promotional manner. For example, they may tell readers to buy the company's product, provide price lists, give links to online sellers, or use unencyclopedic or meaningless buzzwords.

The template is for Wikipedia 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 an unfairly positive or negative light.

The issue the template addresses is the policy WP:PROMO, which forbids content that reflects:

Advocacy, propaganda, or recruitment of any kind: commercial, political, scientific, religious, national, sports-related, legal, or otherwise. An article can report objectively about such things, as long as it is from a neutral point of view.
Self-promotion. This needs to go well beyond Wikipedia editors believing that the subject created or wrote the article, and that the mere existence of the article helps the subject promote itself.
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, the template may be appropriate. This is not a {{COI }} tag. Decide whether to add the template based on the article's contents, and not based on your belief about who wrote the article. If you add the template, you should be able to identify specific, correctable content that tends to "sell" the subject.

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

How to use

Articles

Place {{Promotional|date=September 2026}} at the top of the article.
You can adjust the default "article" text with something more specific, such as: {{Promotional|article's "Controversy" section|date=September 2026}}.

Sections

To mark specific sections instead of the whole article, place {{Advert section |date=September 2026}} at the top of the section.

Remarks

To replace the text "promotional content", you may use {{Promotional|article/section|yourtext}} or {{Promotional|2=yourtext}} or {{Promotional|type=yourtext}}

TemplateData

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

TemplateData for Promotional

Template for articles with promotional content

Template parameters[Edit template data ]
This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.
Parameter		Description	Type	Status
Scope	`1`	This parameter allows an editor to replace the default word "article" with another word, usually "section" Suggested values `section` Default article Example section	Content	optional
Type	`type` `2`	To replace the text "promotional content" with another phrase Default promotional content Auto value	Content	optional
Month and year	`date`	Month and year of tagging; e.g., 'January 2013', but not 'jan13' Example January 2013 Auto value `{{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}`	String	suggested

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