Template:WPBeatles

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  This Beatles-related article is within the scope of The Beatles WikiProject, a collaborative effort to improve and expand Wikipedia coverage of The Beatles, Apple Records, George Martin, Brian Epstein/NEMS, and related topics. You are more than welcome to join the project and/or contribute to discussion.

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This template is a self-reference. Please add it to the article's talk page, NOT the article!.

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.

About the template

This template adds article talk pages, category talk pages, template talk pages, etc (whatever it is placed on) to Category:WikiProject The Beatles articles. It is also used to track article classifications and presents readers with a current "to do" list.

Please be very careful when editing this template if you don't understand MediaWiki Parser Functions. This template is now very complicated and could easily be broken. (Note that you may find m:Magic_words and m:ParserFunctions very helpful in understanding what this does... consider consulting with User:Kingboyk or User:Lar before making any changes, please)

The usage instructions are now stored in a separate page - Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Project banner - and may be safely edited by any project member.

Usage

Please note: This template should be transcluded ({{WPBeatles}}) and not substituted (subst) because it employs conditional code. Transclusion also allows easy updating of all the Project's talk pages without having to edit hundreds of pages.

A simple way to use the template is to copy the following onto the talk page, and then optionally remove the unnecessary lines. If any further help is needed, please ask at WT:TB or ask User:Kingboyk or User:Lar.

{{WPBeatles
|living = 
|class = 
|importance = 
|apple = 
|john = 
|paul = 
|george = 
|ringo = 
|epstein = 
|martin = 
|also-beatles = 
|display = 
|album = 
|song = 
|musician = 
|arts = 
|album-importance = 
|bio-importance = 
|song-importance = 
|attention = 
|needs-infobox = 
}}

Parameters

Example 1: basic

{{WPBeatles}}

For main space articles which have not yet been assessed, simply use {{WPBeatles}}. This default places the article in Category:Unassessed Beatles articles and Category:Unassessed-importance Beatles articles, and doesn't change the wording of the template in any way.

Example 2: full

Todo: Some examples (with named articles) of how to use the new template. Or are folks happy with the above instructions?