Template:WikiProject Germany

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This article is within the scope of WikiProject Germany, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to articles related to Germany on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please join the project and help with our open tasks.
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This template employs intricate features of template syntax.
Please do not alter it unless you are certain to understand its setup and parser functions and are ready to repair/revert all collateral damage if results are unexpected.
Any experiments should be conducted and all improvements tested in the template sandbox, or in your user space, before applying anything here.

[edit] Usage

The {{WikiProject Germany}} 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 Germany
| small           =
| class           =
| importance      =
| attention       =
| unref           =
| mapneeded       =
| mapdetails      =
| imageneeded     =
| imagedetails    =
| Frankfurt       =
| Mainz           =
|  MainzImp       =
| Munich          =
|  MunichImp      =
}}

Template display formatting parameters:

  • small - show the normal or reduced size template; shows the reduced size template if small=yes.

Article assessment parameters:

  • class – a rating of the article's quality; see Wikipedia:WikiProject Germany/Assessment for more details. Valid values are:
    • 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 Germany stub templates.
    • NA - The page is not an article and should not be rated; it could be a template, image or category, for example.
    • Disambig or Dab - The article is a disambiguation page.
    • Template - The page is a template.
    • Category or Cat - The page is a category.
  • importance - a rating of the article's importance within the WikiProject Germany. Valid values are (case insensitive):
    • Top
    • High
    • Mid
    • Low

Project work parameters (set them to "yes" to include them):

Miscellaneous maintenance parameters (set them to "yes" to include them):

  • mapneeded - The article needs a map; adds articles to Category:Germany articles needing maps.
    • mapdetails (appears only if "mapneeded" is set to yes) - Additional details to specify the kind of map information that is needed.
  • imageneeded - The article needs an image (other than a map); adds articles to Category:Germany articles needing images.
    • imagedetails (appears only if imageneeded is set to yes) - Additional details to describe the image that is requested.

Subproject switches:

  • Frankfurt - Set to "yes" to assign the article to WikiProject Frankfurt
  • Mainz - Set to "yes" to assign the article to the Mainz task force
    • MainzImp - importance rating within the task force, valid values are:
      • Top
      • High
      • Mid
      • Low
  • Munich - Set to "yes" to assign the article to the WikiProject Munich
    • MunichImp - importance rating within the Munich project, valid values are:
      • Top
      • High
      • Mid
      • Low


To avoid needlessly cluttering up talk pages, it is usually appropriate to remove any unused parameters from the template.