Template:WikiProject Ecology

Template documentation

This is the WikiProject banner template used by WikiProject Ecology to keep track of articles within its scope. All articles are categorised into Category:WikiProject Ecology articles.

Basic usage

Place this on the talk page of relevant articles:
{{WikiProject Ecology |class= |importance= }}

Full usage

It is usual to remove any unused parameters from the template call.
{{WikiProject Ecology |category= |listas= |class= |importance= |needs-image= }}

Parameters

• category – set |category=no if, and only if, a banner is being used for demonstration or testing purposes, to prevent unnecessary or undesirable categorization. Otherwise, omit this parameter.
• listas – this parameter, which is the equivalent of the DEFAULTSORT sortkey that should be placed on all biographical articles, is a sortkey for the article talk page (e.g. for John Smith, use |listas=Smith, John so that the talk page will show up in the Smith's and not the John's of the various assessment and administrative categories. Similarly, for topics with titles beginning with an article such as "the" or "a" - e.g. for The Matrix, use |listas=Matrix, The so that the talk page will show up in the Matrix's. This is important because it is one source used by those who set DEFAULTSORT on the article; consider also setting the DEFAULTSORT for the article when setting this parameter. For more information about this, please see Wikipedia:Categorization of people#Ordering names in a category. It is not required if another WikiProject template on the same page has its own {{para|listas}} set, since it affects the sortkey of all banners and templates.
• class – see #Quality assessment below.
• importance – see #Importance assessment below.

Notes and alerts

• needs-image – set |needs-image=yes or any non-blank value other than "no", "n" or "0". The following message will be displayed: "It is requested that a picture or pictures be included in this article to improve its quality." This will populate Category:Wikipedia requested images of biology.

Quality assessment

This project uses Wikipedia's content assessment scale. Valid values are shown below.

Classification based on class parameter

Input (not case sensitive)	Icon	Class	Category	Population
FA		FA	Category:FA-Class Ecology articles	5
A		A	Category:A-Class Ecology articles	0
GA		GA	Category:GA-Class Ecology articles	44
B		B	Category:B-Class Ecology articles	189
C		C	Category:C-Class Ecology articles	661
Start		Start	Category:Start-Class Ecology articles	1,070
Stub		Stub	Category:Stub-Class Ecology articles	594
FL		FL	Category:FL-Class Ecology articles	1
List		List	Category:List-Class Ecology articles	144
NA		NA	Category:NA-Class Ecology articles	851

Classification of redirects and disambiguation pages

If the |class= parameter is not defined and the WikiProject banner is placed on the talk page of a redirect (in any namespace) or disambigation page then it will automatically be classified as follows:

• Redirects will automatically be classified as NA-class and placed in Category:NA-Class Ecology articles.
• Disambiguation pages will automatically be classified as NA-class and placed in Category:NA-Class Ecology articles.

Classification based on namespace

In addition, if |class= is empty, undefined or unrecognized, then the class will be deduced from the namespace of the page when possible.

Namespace	Icon	Class	Category	Population
User talk		NA	Category:NA-Class Ecology articles	851
File talk
TimedText talk
Category talk
Portal talk
Template talk
Module talk
Project talk
Draft talk
Help talk
MediaWiki talk

In all other circumstances, articles will be classed as Unassessed and placed in Category:Unassessed Ecology articles.

Importance assessment

This project uses the standard importance scale. Valid values are shown below.

Input (not case sensitive)	Importance	Category	Population
Top	Top	Category:Top-importance Ecology articles	19
High	High	Category:High-importance Ecology articles	172
Mid	Mid	Category:Mid-importance Ecology articles	448
Low	Low	Category:Low-importance Ecology articles	1,484
NA	NA	Category:NA-importance Ecology articles	811

TemplateData

This template identifies the article as being within scope of WikiProject Ecology.

Template parameters

This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
listas	listas	Define a sort key, mainly for biographical articles, so that the page is sorted under the surname rather than the first name. Example Smith, John	Line	optional
category	category	Set to no to display the banner without any categories. For testing or demo purposes; should not be used in articles. Suggested values no	Line	optional
class	class	Assess the quality of the article. Please add this parameter to the banner shell instead. Suggested values Stub Start C B A List GA FA FL Example C	Line	deprecated
importance	importance	Assess the importance or priority of the article to the WikiProject Suggested values Low Mid High Top NA Example low	Line	suggested
needs-image	needs-image	Triggers a custom note in the banner. Suggested values yes no Example yes	Line	optional

Editors can experiment in this template's sandbox (create | mirror) and testcases (create) pages.
Subpages of this template.