Template talk:WikiProject Geology

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[edit] needs-infobox parameter broken

The Infoboxneeded template was deleted per this discussion, but this project banner still includes it. The needs-infobox parameter should either be ignored or the functionality fixed. {{WPMILHIST}} uses a category to implment the same concept. --J Clear 16:16, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

Converted it to a category and updated the project's page to reflect that. --J Clear 16:57, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Update undone

Hi,

I've just undone a standardisation of this template to the "Wikipedia standard" as it removes the subcategorisation functionality I've just coded into it. Feel free to re-standardise it once the main template also has this feature.

Verisimilus T 14:11, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

I certainly wouldn't want functionality to be unnecessarily lost. What, exactly, was removed that you need? Happy‑melon 15:18, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

Ok, I see what you've done. To be honest, I can't see the usefulness of manually creating category intersections like this. It would just multiply by three (or seven for project using the extended quality scale) the number of subcategories in cats like Category:Start-Class articles, while providing minimal extra functionality (especially given that CategoryIntersection (through something like this is (perpetually) just around the corner). It might also be causing errors in summaries like these (the number of FAs is wrong, so there is definitely a systematic error somewhere). However, if you want to include the functionality in this project banner, don't let me stop you: it's as simple as adding the extra categorisation code below the WPBannerMeta code - there's no reason why the template has to just consist of a call to {{WPBannerMeta}}. I've restored the meta code with this extra categorisation, which should resolve the issue. Let me know if there is any more important functionality that I've inadvertantly removed. Happy‑melon 15:36, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

Ah, yes, of course - I should have realised that. Great stuff, thanks. I think the intersection categories are incredibly useful; combined with this template they make it very easy to identify which articles are in most urgent need of improvement. I think the problem with the statistics is that it takes some time for the pages in each category to be updated if the category is generated by a template (e.g. this template; the error has a half-life of about a day as correct categorisation steadily trickles through!)

Anyway, thanks for your help and efforts here! Verisimilus T 16:40, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

One small hitch with the standardisation of the template has appeared now that User:Pageview bot has been run. The {{viewcount}} template needs adding in a slightly different way; it appears as at Talk:Accretionary wedge whereas it should appear like it does on Talk:Accolade. Any easy way of fixing this? Thanks. Verisimilus T 21:32, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] List-class articles not working

FYI, List-class articles like at Talk:List of impact craters in Africa are not showing up. At the same time, those are appearing the bizarre Category:Na-importance List-Class Geology articles. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 02:05, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Where aren't they showing up? And they appear in that category because their importance has been set to "NA". If you chose to rate their importance (I don't see why you shouldn't!), they'll fall into the right category.

Verisimilus T 07:43, 25 April 2008 (UTC)