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This is a documentation subpage for Template:WikiProject Genetics (see that page for the template itself).
It contains usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page.

[edit] Usage

This template {{WikiProject Genetics}} adds articles to subcategories of Category:WikiProject Genetics and is a self-reference. Please add it to talk pages of relevant articles and non-article pages.

This template should be transcluded as {{WikiProject Genetics}} and not substituted {{subst:}} because it employs conditional code. Transclusion also allows easy updating of all the WikiProject's talk pages without having to edit thousands of pages individually. For examples of how the template will appear under various parameter scenarios, please see Template:WikiProject Genetics/Examples.

The template also employs several optional data field parameters as described below. The full syntax is as follows:

{{WikiProject Genetics
|class=
|importance=
|imageneeded=
|imagedetails=
|unref=
|nested=
|past-collaboration=
|past-selected-article=
|past-selected-biography=
|past-selected-picture=
|peer-review=
|old-peer-review=
|attention=
|small=
}}

[edit] General parameters

  • class: Enter FA, FL, A, GA, B, Start, Stub, List, NA, Cat, Dab, Image, Portal, Project, Redirect, Template, or leave blank. NA is "non article", which includes categories, disambiguous pages, images, portals, project namespace (e.g., prefix Wikipedia: also called the Wikipedia namespace), redirects, and templates. Some of the option descriptions may be found at WikiProject Genetics/Quality scale.
  • importance: Enter Top, High, Mid, Low, NA, or leave blank. Some of the option descriptions may be found at WikiProject Genetics/Importance scale.
  • imageneeded: Answer yes to request that a photograph, map, drawing, diagram, equation, or other image be added to the page. Leave blank or delete if not.
  • imagedetails: This free-form parameter can be used in conjunction with the imageneeded parameter to add specific details about the images being requested. For example, "imagedetails=Please add a ray-traced PyMol image of the macromolecular complex." will add the following to the template display: "An editor suggests the following: Please add a ray-traced PyMol image of the macromolecular complex."
  • unref: Answer yes if the page needs additional references or inline citations. Leave blank or delete if not.
  • nested: Answer yes to nest the template, such as under {{WikiProjectBannerShell}}. Leave blank if not yet.

[edit] Future parameters

The current template also contains parameters that, while not applicable now, can be used once the WikiProject expands.

  • past-collaboration: Enter Month Year (e.g., "past-collaboration=February 2007") if the page previously was selected as the WikiProject's collaboration of the week/month. Leave blank or delete if not.
  • past-selected-article: Enter Month Year (e.g., "past-selected-article=March 2007") if the article previously was selected as the Genetics Portal's article of the month. Leave blank or delete if not.
  • past-selected-biography: Enter Month Year (e.g., "past-selected-biography=June 2006") if the biography article previously was selected as the Genetics Portal's biography of the month. Leave blank or delete if not.
  • past-selected-picture: Enter Month Year (e.g., "past-selected-picture=March 2008") if the image previously was selected as the Genetics Portal's picture of the month. Leave blank or delete if not.
  • peer-review: Enter yes if the page currently being peer reviewed.
  • old-peer-review: Enter yes if the page has had a peer reviewed.

[edit] Other parameters

These parameters can also appear on the template display.

  • attention: Answer yes if the page needs immediate attention. Leave blank or delete if not.
  • small: Answer yes to make the template smaller and lined up vertically on the right side of the talk page.
  • auto: This parameter is set to yes by bots that automatically assess a page as Stub-class if the page uses a stub template.

[edit] Notes

To avoid needlessly cluttering up talk pages, it is usually appropriate to remove any unused parameters from the template. A common initial configuration for the template includes the following basic parameters:

{{WikiProject Genetics|class=|importance=|imageneeded=|imagedetails=|unref=|nested=}}