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Usage
Project banner
The {{WikiProject China}} project banner template should be added (not subst:ed) to the talk page of every article within the scope of the project. While the template does not require any additional parameters, it has a number of optional ones that add various extra features to the banner. The full syntax is as follows:
{{WikiProject China |small= |class= |importance= |portal= |attention= |collaboration-candidate= |past-collaboration= |failed-collaboration= |peer-review= |old-peer-review= |orphan= |needs-infobox= |auto= |map-needed= |image-needed= |portaldykdate= |portal-picture= |assess-date= <!-- Portal specific tags --> |group-portal1=Portal Name 1 |group-portal2=(Portal Name 2) |group-portal3=(Portal Name 3) |group-portal4=(Portal Name 4) |group-portal5=(Portal Name 5) |group-portal-picture1=Portal selected picture name 1 |group-portal-picture2=(Portal selected picture name 2) |group-portal-picture3=(Portal selected picture name 3) |group-portal-picture4=(Portal selected picture name 4) |group-portal-picture5=(Portal selected picture name 5) <!-- Wikiproject geography specific tags --> |maps= |cities= |provinces= |tibet= <!-- Wikiproject topic specific tags --> |politics= |history= |cinema= }} Template display formatting parameters:
- small - show the normal or reduced size template; shows the reduced size template if small=yes.
General parameters:
- class – a rating of the article's quality; see the assessment department for more details.
- FA - The article has reached Featured article status.
- FL - The article has reached Featured list status.
- A - Could be submitted as a Featured article candidate; probably could use some small updates to make it Featured quality.
- GA - The article has reached Good article status.
- B - Could be submitted as a Good article nominee; probably could use some updates or may lack some features from the Good article criteria, but it presents a good overview of the subject.
- C - More than a start, but needs a bit more work to become a B-class.
- Start - The article is more than a stub, but may lack some important aspects of the topic's discussion.
- Stub - The article is a stub; it likely contains one of the China stub templates.
- Needed - The article does not yet exist but has been identified as a subject that should be covered.
- Disambig or Dab - The article is a disambiguation page.
- Redirect or Redir - The article is a redirect page.
- Template - The page is a template.
- Category or Cat - The page is a category.
- Image or Img - The page is an image.
- List - The page is a list.
- Portal - The page is a portal.
- NA - The page is another type of non-article page on which assessment is unnecessary.
- importance – a rating of the article's importance; see the assessment department for more details.
- portal – if the article is used in the selected article queue of the China Portal, the subpage number of its entry.
- portal-picture – if the image is used in the selected picture queue of the China Portal, the subpage number of its entry.
- attention – "yes" if the article requires immediate attention; this should be used sparingly.
- collaboration-candidate – "yes" if the article is currently a candidate for the project's Collaboration of the week.
- past-collaboration – week of <date> the article was previously a Collaboration of the week, the dash-separated dates of the collaboration period; must be left blank otherwise.
- failed-collaboration – <date> the article was nominated for the Collaboration of the week, but failed to quality; must be left blank otherwise.
- peer-review – "yes" if the article is currently listed on the project's peer review department.
- old-peer-review – "yes" if the article was previously listed on the project's peer review department.
- orphan – "yes" if the article is not currently supported by an Chinese WikiProject.
- needs-infobox – "yes" if the article lacks an infobox, otherwise remove this line.
- auto – "yes" This parameter is for bot-use.
- map-needed – "yes" if the article needs a map, otherwise remove this line.
- image-needed – "yes" if the article needs pictures, otherwise remove this line. It adds articles to Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in China.
- portaldykdate – Date on which the article was displayed on the DYK section of the China portal. Format: [[Month]] [[day]], [[Year]].
- assess-date - Date last assessed. Example: assess-date={{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}
Portal specific parameters
- group-portal(1-5): Can list selected articles of up to 5 portals
- group-portal-list(1-5): Can list selected lists of up to 5 portals
- group-portal-picture(1-5): Can list selected pictures of up to 5 portals
Wikiproject specific parameters
- Geography
- Others
To avoid needlessly cluttering up talk pages, it is usually appropriate to remove any unused parameters from the template.
See also
Template documentation
