Template:WikiProject Oceans

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	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Oceans, a collaborative effort to improve Wikipedia's coverage of oceans, seas, and bays. If you would like to participate, you can edit this article or you can visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks or take part in the discussion.
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This template adds Category:WikiProject Oceans articles automatically to the Talk pages of articles where it is placed. Other categories may be added depending on the parameters selected. This template is a self-reference. Please add it to the article's talk page.

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 general Template sandbox or your user space before changing anything here.

[edit] Usage

The {{WikiProject Oceans}} 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 Oceans
|nested=
|small=
|class=  
|importance=
}}

Template display formatting parameters:

• small - show the normal or reduced size template; shows the reduced size template if small=yes.
• nested - allows for the banner to be hidden with a show/hide button in conjunction with the WikiProjectBannerShell template if nested=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.
  • FL - The article has reached Featured list 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 Oceans stub templates.
  • List - Article is a list which has yet to reach FL status.
  • 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

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