Wikipedia:WikiProject Germany/Project banner

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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.


[edit] 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}}.

[edit] 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

[edit] 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?

[edit] Project work parameters (set them to "yes" to include them)


[edit] Miscellaneous maintenance parameters (set them to "yes" to include them)

[edit] Subproject switches

[edit] 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".