Wikipedia:WikiProject India/Project banner

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[edit] Project banner

The {{WP India}} 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:

{{WP India
|small=
|pre=
|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-list1=Portal selected list name 1
|group-portal-list2=(Portal selected list name 2)
|group-portal-list3=(Portal selected list name 3)
|group-portal-list4=(Portal selected list name 4)
|group-portal-list5=(Portal selected list 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 -->
|cities=
|districts=
|maps=
|states=
<!-- Wikiproject Indian states specific tags -->
|andhra=
|bengal=
|goa=
|karnataka=
|kerala=
|maharashtra=
|tamilnadu=
<!-- Wikiproject topic specific tags -->
|politics=
|history=
|cinema=
|tamil=
}}

Template display formatting parameters:

  • small - show the normal or reduced size template; shows the reduced size template if small=yes.
  • pre - for pre-independence articles; changes flag image to a map of sub-continent if pre=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.
    • 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.
    • 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 India 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 a image.
    • List - The page is a list.
    • Portal - The page is a portal.
    • NA - The page is not an article and should not be rated; it could be a template, image or category, for example.
  • importance – a rating of the article's importance; see the assessment department for more details.
    • Top
    • High
    • Mid
    • Low
  • portal – if the article is used in the selected article queue of the India Portal, the subpage number of its entry.
  • portal-picture – if the image is used in the selected picture queue of the India 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 Indian WikiProject.
  • needs-infobox – "yes" if the article lacks an infobox, otherwise remove this line.
  • auto – "yes" This parameter is for bot-use. It calls the {{stubclass}} template.
  • 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:India articles needing images.
  • portaldykdate – Date on which the article was displayed on the DYK section of the India 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 upto 5 portals
  • group-portal-list(1-5): Can list selected lists of upto 5 portals
  • group-portal-picture(1-5): Can list selected pictures of upto 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.