Template:WikiProject Marine life/doc

This is a documentation subpage for Template:WikiProject Marine life.
It may contain usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page.

This template is used on approximately 14,000 pages and changes may be widely noticed. Test changes in the template's /sandbox or /testcases subpages, or in your own user subpage. Consider discussing changes on the talk page before implementing them.

{{WikiProject Marine life}} is a talk page template that is used as a shortcut to other pages in the WikiProject.

{{WikiProject Marine life
|class      = 
|importance = 
|assessed   = 
|merge      = 
|COTM-nom   = 
|COTM       = 
|COTM-old   = 
|needs-image = 
|needs-taxobox = 
|listas     = 
}}

Assessment

{{WikiProject Marine life}} is also used as a way of assessing articles. You should supply the correct assessment when you add this template to a talk page.

class – valid values are listed in the custom class mask. See the project's quality scale for details. Setting an explicit value of NA is rarely necessary; for this, either leave |class= blank or omit the parameter.

An article's quality assessment is generated from the class parameter in the {{WikiProject Banner Shell}}. Articles that have the {{WikiProject Marine life}} project banner on their talk page will be added to the appropriate categories by quality.

The following values may be used for the class parameter to describe the quality of the article (see Wikipedia:Content assessment for assessment criteria):


FA (for featured articles only; adds articles to Category:FA-Class Marine life articles)		FA
A (adds articles to Category:A-Class Marine life articles)		A
GA (for good articles only; adds articles to Category:GA-Class Marine life articles)		GA
B (adds articles to Category:B-Class Marine life articles)		B
C (adds articles to Category:C-Class Marine life articles)		C
Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class Marine life articles)		Start
Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class Marine life articles)		Stub
FL (for featured lists only; adds articles to Category:FL-Class Marine life articles)		FL
List (adds articles to Category:List-Class Marine life articles)		List

For non-standard grades and non-mainspace content, the following values may be used for the class parameter:


Category (for categories; adds pages to Category:Category-Class Marine life articles)		Category
Disambig (for disambiguation pages; adds pages to Category:Disambig-Class Marine life articles)		Disambig
Draft (for drafts; adds pages to Category:Draft-Class Marine life articles)		Draft
FM (for featured media only; adds pages to Category:FM-Class Marine life articles)		FM
File (for files and timed text; adds pages to Category:File-Class Marine life articles)		File
Portal (for portal pages; adds pages to Category:Portal-Class Marine life articles)		Portal
Project (for project pages; adds pages to Category:Project-Class Marine life articles)		Project
Redirect (for redirect pages; adds pages to Category:Redirect-Class Marine life articles)		Redirect
Template (for templates and modules; adds pages to Category:Template-Class Marine life articles)		Template
NA (for any other pages where assessment is unnecessary; adds pages to Category:NA-Class Marine life articles)		NA
??? (articles for which a valid class has not yet been provided are listed in Category:Unassessed Marine life articles)		???

importance – valid values are: top, high, mid, low, na (case-insensitive). See the project's importance scale for details. Setting an explicit value of NA is rarely necessary; for this, either leave |importance= blank or omit the parameter.

An article's importance assessment is generated from the importance parameter in the {{WikiProject Marine life}} project banner on its talk page:

{{WikiProject Marine life|importance=???}}

The following values may be used for the importance parameter to describe the relative importance of the article within the project (see Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Priority of topic for assessment criteria):


Top (adds articles to Category:Top-importance Marine life articles)		Top
High (adds articles to Category:High-importance Marine life articles)		High
Mid (adds articles to Category:Mid-importance Marine life articles)		Mid
Low (adds articles to Category:Low-importance Marine life articles)		Low
NA (adds articles to Category:NA-importance Marine life articles)		NA
??? (articles for which a valid importance rating has not yet been provided are listed in Category:Unknown-importance Marine life articles)		???

assessed – set |assessed=yes if the page has been assessed by editors of the WikiProject.

COTM-nom – set |COTM-nom=yes if the page is a candidate to be the project collaboration.
COTM – set |COTM=yes if the page is currently the project collaboration.
COTM-old – set |COTM-old=yes (or any non-blank value other than "no", "n", "0" or "¬", such as the dates it was part of the collaboration) if the page was a past project collaboration.
listas – This parameter, which is the equivalent of the DEFAULTSORT sortkey that should be placed on all biographical articles, is a sortkey for the article talk page (e.g. for Jacques Cousteau, use |listas=Cousteau, Jacques so that the talk page will show up in the C's and not the J's of the various assessment and administrative categories). This is important because it is one source used by those who set DEFAULTSORT on the article; consider also setting the DEFAULTSORT for the article when setting this parameter. For more information about this, please see Wikipedia:Categorization of people § Ordering names in a category.
If the article is using {{WikiProject banner shell}} then it is preferable to add |listas= to that template instead of a project banner template. Putting the parameter on more than one template is not required.
merge – set |merge=yes if the possible merging of the page has been discussed by editors of the WikiProject.
needs-image – set |needs-image=yes to request that a picture or pictures be included in the page to improve its quality.
- This parameter populates Category:Wikipedia requested images of marine life.
needs-taxobox – set |needs-taxobox=yes to request that a taxobox be included in the page to improve its quality.
- This parameter populates Category:Missing taxobox.
category – set |category=no if, and only if, a banner is being used for demonstration or testing purposes, to prevent unnecessary or undesirable categorization. Otherwise, omit this parameter.

Aliases

The parameters |needs-photo=, |photo-needed= and |image-needed= are recognised as aliases for |needs-image=. If more than one is present, the order of precedence, from highest to lowest, is: |needs-image= → |needs-photo= → |photo-needed= → |image-needed= . Parameters with lower precedence are ignored.

The parameters |taxobox-needed=, |taxobox-requested= and |taxobox= are recognised as aliases for |needs-taxobox=. If more than one is present, the order of precedence, from highest to lowest, is: |needs-taxobox= → |taxobox-needed= → |taxobox-requested= → |taxobox= . Parameters with lower precedence are ignored.