Template:Academic booster
 | This article contains academic boosterism which primarily serves to praise or promote the subject and may be a sign of a conflict of interest. |
| Template documentation follows |
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Usage
This template is intended to be used on academic articles which require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's neutral point of view and/or conflict of interest policies. When applying this template to an article, editors should note specific reasons on the article's talk page. The template is primarily intended for articles about academic institutions (schools, colleges, universities), although it can also be applied to articles about academic programs, buildings, sports teams, media, traditions, administrators, faculty, etc. This template should only be used in the main (article) namespace. Do not place this template on talk pages, user pages, policies and guidelines, or other similar pages.
Parameters
This template refers to an article by default. It can be adjusted for use in sections of an article or for lists with the "what" parameter. Example for a section:
{{Booster|what=section}}
Syntax for current month:
{{Booster|date=October 2026}}
Pasteable text for any month (automatically inserted):
{{Booster|
{{subst:DATE}}}}
TemplateData
No description.
| Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| what | what | no description | Unknown | optional |
| date | date | no description
| Date | optional |
Notes
- This template will categorize tagged articles into Category:Articles with a promotional tone and Category:Wikipedia articles with possible conflicts of interest.
- This template is a self-reference.
- Please do not subst: this template.
Redirects
- {{Academic boosterism}}
- {{BOOSTER}}
- {{Boosterism}}
- {{Prestigious}}
See also
- {{Academic-administrator-stub}}
- {{Academic-bio-stub}}
- {{Academic-journal-stub}}
- {{Academic degrees}}
- {{Academic publishing}}
Other common cleanup templates
- Wikipedia:Template index/Cleanup
- {{All plot}}
- {{Anachronism}}
- {{Autobiography}}
- {{Citation style}}
- {{Cleanup image}}
- {{Cleanup list}}
- {{Cleanup merge}}
- {{Cleanup reorganize}}
- {{Cleanup rewrite}}
- {{COI}}
- {{Confusing}}
- {{Connected contributor}}
- {{Context}}
- {{Copy edit}}
- {{Expert needed}}
- {{Fiction}}
- {{Globalize}}
- {{How-to}}
- {{Missing information}}
- {{More citations needed}}
- {{Notability}}
- {{Paid contributions}}
- {{Primary sources}}
- {{Promotional}}
- {{Self-contradictory}}
- {{Technical}}
- {{Tone}}
- {{Too many see alsos}}
- {{Uncategorized}}
- {{Unreferenced category}}
- {{Underlinked}}
- {{Undisclosed paid}}
- {{Unfocused}}
- {{Unreferenced}}