Template:WikiProject banner shell/doc

This template combines talk page banners into a nested shell and displays a general quality assessment for an article. It was designed for WikiProject banners and will work reliably only with such templates. This template may be added to an article talk page with no WikiProject banners, but with a {{para|class}} quality assessment value, in which case it will populate a general category such as :Category:C-Class articles.

WikiProject assessment bots may change shell templates per this usage guideline when the bot is editing the talk page for other reasons. If local consensus on a talk page is to not follow this guideline, please specify {{Para|collapsed|yes}} or {{Para|collapsed|no}} explicitly to override the bots.

{{WikiProject banner shell|class=|

{{First Project Banner}}

{{Second Project Banner}}

{{Third Project Banner}}

...

}}

{{WikiProject banner shell|class=|vital=|blp=|collapsed=|listas=|

{{First Project Banner}}

{{Second Project Banner}}

{{Third Project Banner}}

...

}}

{{shortcut|WP:PIQA}}

In February 2023, the Wikipedia community expressed strong support for article quality assessments that are independent of WikiProjects.

Consensus was found for adding a {{para|class}} parameter to Template:WikiProject banner shell, which all projects would inherit. To avoid redundancy, this rating is then shown only on the banner shell. Projects can choose to opt-out of this system by adding the parameter {{para|QUALITY_CRITERIA|custom}} to their project banner template.

It is also possible to add a standalone banner shell template to an article without any WikiProjects, for example {{WikiProject banner shell|class=start}}.

Cewbot will regularly maintain {{WikiProject banner shell}}.

All parameters are optional.

{{Format TemplateData|1={

"description": "Aggregates and compresses the display of multiple, vertically-stacked WikiProject banner templates on pages in odd-numbered namespaces into a more information dense layout",

"format": "inline",

"paramOrder": [

"class",

"blp",

"collapsed",

"listas",

"1",

"vital",

"blpo",

"activepol"

],

"params": {

"class": {

"label": "class",

"description": "Display the standard quality assessment rating, e.g. Start, C, GA",

"type": "string",

"required": false,

"example": "Start",

"suggestedvalues": [

"FA",

"FL",

"A",

"GA",

"B",

"C",

"Start",

"Stub",

"List",

"FM"

],

"suggested": true

},

"blp": {

"label": "Living subject",

"description": "Triggers the display of more verbose warnings about the extra editing constraints on these articles.
Use \"yes\" for a living person.
Use \"no\" for a dead person.
Use \"other\" if the subject of the article is not a living person, but the article contains sensitive information about other living persons.
Use \"activepol\" if the article is about a currently active politician.
Leave the field blank if the subject of the article does not involve a person.",

"example": "yes",

"type": "string",

"suggestedvalues": [

"activepol",

"yes",

"other",

"no"

],

"suggested": true

},

"collapsed": {

"label": "Collapse project banners",

"description": "Load template in its collapsed state, hiding even the name, class and importance values for the individual WikiProjects contained within; set to 'yes' if desired.",

"example": "yes",

"type": "boolean",

"default": "no (collapsed=no is deprecated, do not use)"

},

"listas": {

"label": "Sort key",

"description": "Sets the default sort key for the current page",

"example": "Smith, John",

"type": "string"

},

"1": {

"label": "WikiProject banners",

"description": "Place the individual project banners here, one per line",

"type": "content",

"required": false

},

"vital": {

"description": "If set to yes, then the module will check subpages of Wikipedia:Vital articles/data to see if the article is a vital article. If so, then it will display a message and link to the relevant sublist of vital articles.",

"type": "boolean"

},

"blpo": {

"example": "yes",

"type": "boolean",

"default": "no",

"deprecated": "Please use
blp=other
instead."

},

"activepol": {

"example": "yes",

"type": "boolean",

"default": "no",

"deprecated": "Please use
blp=activepol
instead."

}

}

}}}

Pages where expansion depth is exceeded issue: This "shell template" adds to the "expansion depth" of the page. In certain circumstances, it can cause the page to exceed the limit. If this happens, find out which enclosed template is already "near the limit" and notify the WikiProject responsible for that template that there is an issue. Include details, as some WikiProject templates only get "close to the limit" with uncommon combinations of parameters. (Example report)

{{columns-start}}

• {{Category link with count|Pages using WikiProject banner shell with duplicate banner templates}}
• {{Category link with count|Pages using WikiProject banner shell with unknown parameters}}
• {{Category link with count|WikiProject banners placed outside the banner shell}}
• {{Category link with count|WikiProjects using a non-standard quality scale}}
• {{Category link with count|Wikipedia vital articles needing attention|pages}}

{{column}}

• {{Category link with count|B-Class articles with conflicting quality ratings}}
• {{Category link with count|C-Class articles with conflicting quality ratings}}
• {{Category link with count|Start-Class articles with conflicting quality ratings}}
• {{Category link with count|Stub-Class articles with conflicting quality ratings}}
• {{Category link with count|List-Class articles with conflicting quality ratings}}

{{columns-end}}

• {{Category link with count|Wikipedia non-empty soft redirected categories}} - Contains items from the recent name changes of categories ending in articles to pages.

• {{Template link general|Skip to talk}} – To skip past the many banners and templates straight to the table of contents
• {{Template link general|Talk header}} – Used at the top of some pages
• Module:WikiProject banner – the meta module for individual WikiProject banners
• :Category:Pages using WikiProject banner shell needing attention

• {{Template link general|Article history}} – For a template to condense Peer Reviews and other Good- or Featured-article history
• {{Template link general|Banner holder}}
• {{Template link general|Old XfD multi}} – For listing multiple deletion debates
• {{Template link general|Redirect category shell}} – For listing one or more redirect category templates

{{Sandbox other||

Category:Non-subject-matter-related article-talk header templates

Category:Template shell templates

Category:Templates that are not mobile friendly

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