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	<includeonly><div class="toclimit-{{{1\|2}}}"}}>__TOC__</div></includeonly><noinclude>Sometimes the length of a table of contents (TOC) is excessive because of the number of lower-level sections (=== and below). This template allows you to remove those lower headers from the TOC. To see how this can be useful, try previewing an edit of the [[OBD:Data types]] page after removing the call to this template, and you'll see that there are a distracting number of minor subheaders which the reader doesn't need to see; he probably only will care about clicking on a major type of data, then reading about where the various subtypes are used.		<includeonly><div class="toclimit-{{{1\|2}}}">__TOC__</div></includeonly><noinclude>Sometimes the length of a table of contents (TOC) is excessive because of the number of lower-level sections (=== and below). This template allows you to remove those lower headers from the TOC. To see how this can be useful, try previewing an edit of the [[OBD:Data types]] page after removing the call to this template, and you'll see that there are a distracting number of minor subheaders which the reader doesn't need to see; he probably only will care about clicking on a major type of data, then reading about where the various subtypes are used.

	On the other hand, if you simply have a lot of top-level sections (==) or you feel that the lower-level sections <u>should</u> be in the TOC, then you might want to look at the [[Template:TOCfloat\|TOCfloat]] template, which will cause the article text to wrap around the TOC rather than starting after the TOC. TOCfloat also offers the same limit feature as this TOClimit template, so you can can use it to both shorten the TOC and wrap text around it.		On the other hand, if you simply have a lot of top-level sections (==) or you feel that the lower-level sections <u>should</u> be in the TOC, then you might want to look at the [[Template:TOCfloat\|TOCfloat]] template, which will cause the article text to wrap around the TOC rather than starting after the TOC. TOCfloat also offers the same limit feature as this TOClimit template, so you can can use it to both shorten the TOC and wrap text around it.