Template:WikiProject Germany

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Germany Portal
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.
You are encouraged to familiarise yourself with its setup and parser functions before editing the template. If your edit causes unexpected problems, please undo it quickly, as this template may appear on a large number of pages.
Remember that you can conduct experiments, and should test all improvements, in either the local /test or your user space before changing anything here.

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           =
| nested          =
| class           = 
| importance      =
| attention       =
| unref           =
| mapneeded       =
|  mapdetails     =
| imageneeded     =
|  imagedetails   =
| needs-infobox   =
| Frankfurt       =
| Mainz           =
| Munich          =
|  MunichImp      =
| B-Class-1       =
| B-Class-2       =
| B-Class-3       =
| B-Class-4       =
| B-Class-5       =
| portal1-name    =
| portal1-link    =
| portal2-name    =
| portal2-link    =
| portal3-name    =
| portal3-link    =
| portal4-name    =
| portal4-link    =
| portal5-name    =
| portal5-link    =
}}

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


Template display formatting parameters

  • small – show the normal or reduced size template; shows the reduced size template if small=yes.
  • nested – "yes" if the banner is being used in conjunction with {{WikiProjectBannerShell}}.

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: Top, High, Mid and Low

B-Class checklist

This is available only for unrated articles and articles rated as "Stub-Class", "Start-Class", or "B-Class". See the assessment department for more details.

With any of these classes, the banner will automatically display directions on how to use these parameters.

For an article to qualify for B-class it must meet 5 points. Each one of these points has a corresponding banner variable. For each of these points, assign "yes" if the standards are met, and "no" if not. Leave blank if uncertain.

  • B-Class-1 – Is the article suitably referenced, and are all major points appropriately cited?
  • B-Class-2 – Does the article reasonably cover the topic, and not contain major omissions or inaccuracies?
  • B-Class-3 – Does the article have a defined structure, including a lead section and one or more sections of content?
  • B-Class-4 – Is the article free from major grammatical errors?
  • B-Class-5 – Does the article contain appropriate supporting materials, such as an infobox, images, or diagrams?

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


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

Subproject switches

Portals

Up to five different portals may be specified, via the parameters portal1-name through portal5-name.

  • portalX-name – if the article has been selected for use on a portal, the name of that portal. The name should be given without any formatting or namespace prefixes.
  • portalX-link – the portal subpage location where the article may be found on the corresponding portal. This should be given as a pure unlinked subpage name.
  • For example, Carl Friedrich Gauss was featured on the Germany portal during February 2007. Therefore the paramters would be "|portal1-name=Germany|portal1-link=Selected article/2007/February".