Template:Advert/doc

When to use
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 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 a positive or negative light.

The issue this tag 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, 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.

Articles

 * For articles needing major cleanup, place at the top of the article to alert readers.
 * You can adjust the default "article" text with something more specific, such as:.

Sections

 * To mark specific sections instead of the whole article, place at the top of the section.

Remarks

 * To replace the text "an advertisement", you may use or  or

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