User:Psychless/WPBiography

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[edit] Usage

Please note: This template should be transcluded ({{WPBiography}}) (right here!) and not substituted (subst) because it employs conditional code. Transclusion also allows easy updating of all the Project's talk pages without having to edit hundreds of thousands of pages. Many of these parameters put the talk page of the article into an appropriate category. A manually generated, sporadically updated, list of all the categories used in this template is at Template:WPBiography/Categories.

{{WPBiography
|small = 
|nested = 
|living = 
|class = 
|priority = 
|core = 
|attention = 
|past-collaboration = 
|peer-review = 
|old-peer-review = 
|needs-infobox = 
|needs-persondata =
|activepol = 
|a&e-work-group = 
|politician-work-group = 
|british-royalty = 
|royalty-work-group = 
|military-work-group = 
|sports-work-group = 
|s&a-work-group = 
|musician-work-group = 
|peerage-work-group = 
|baronets-work-group = 
|filmbio-work-group = 
|non-bio = 
|removal = 
|listas = 
|needs-photo = 
}}

[edit] Template layout

  • small: Answer yes to make the template small and along the right side of the page (as opposed to at the top.)
  • nested: yes when the template is nested inside {{WikiProjectBannerShell}}

[edit] Living people

  • living: If yes, the box at {{blp}} will be included above the WPBiography box. This also affects the requested photo box, to emphasize the fact that free images must be used. Either this parameter should be specified or {{blp}} should be included if the person is living. This does not support the small or nested parameters.

[edit] Assessment, priority and type classes

[edit] Core workgroup

[edit] Maintenance parameters

  • attention: Answer yes if the page needs immediate attention, otherwise remove this line.
  • past-collaboration: If the article is or was previously a "Collaboration", set this variable as a date (e.g. 1 June - 14 June 2006), otherwise remove this line.
  • peer-review: Answer yes if the page is currently nominated for Peer review by WikiProject Biography, otherwise remove this line.
  • old-peer-review: Answer yes if the article has received a peer review from WikiProject Biography per the option above, otherwise remove this line.
  • needs-infobox: Answer yes if the article needs an infobox, otherwise remove this line. Remember that infoboxes are not suitable for all articles, and can overwhelm short articles.
    • This box does not support nested.
  • needs-persondata: Answer yes if the article needs persondata, otherwise remove this line.
    • This box does not support nested.
  • activepol: Answer yes if the article is about an active politician, otherwise remove this line.

[edit] Other workgroup parameters

The following parameters populate the subcategories of Category:Biography articles by work group.

  • a&e-work-group: Answer yes if the article is in the scope of the Biography Arts and Entertainment work group, otherwise remove this line. (If the article is about a musician, please use musician-work-group=yes instead)
  • politician-work-group: Answer yes if the article is in the scope of the Biography Politics and Government work group, otherwise remove this line.
  • british-royalty:Answer yes if the article is in the scope of WikiProject British Royalty, otherwise remove this line.
  • royalty-work-group: Answer yes if the article is in the scope of the Biography Royalty and Nobility work group, otherwise remove this line. (If the article is about British royalty please use british-royalty=yes instead)
  • military-work-group: Answer yes if the article is in the scope of the Biography Military work group, otherwise remove this line.
  • sports-work-group: Answer yes if the article is in the scope of the Biography Sports and Games work group, otherwise remove this line.
  • s&a-work-group: Answer yes if the article is in the scope of the Biography Science and Academia work group, otherwise remove this line.
  • musician-work-group: Answer yes if the article is in the scope of the Biography Musicians work group, otherwise remove this line.
  • peerage-work-group: Answer yes if the article is within the scope of WikiProject Peerage, otherwise remove this line. (If the article is about a baronet please use baronets-work-group=yes instead)
  • baronets-work-group: Answer yes if the article is within the scope of WikiProject Baronetcies, otherwise remove this line.
  • filmbio-work-group: Answer yes if the article is within the scope of WikiProject Actors and Filmmakers, otherwise remove this line.

[edit] Other

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