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Project banner
The {{WikiProject Water polo}} project banner template transcludes {{WikiProject Swimming}} with the parameter water-polo=yes.
This template should be added (not subst:ed) to the talk page of every article within the scope of the WikiProject on Water polo. Use of the template populates Category:Water polo articles.
Parameters
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:
Basic parameters
The following parameters are important to the project:
- class – valid values are: fa, a, ga, b, c, start, stub, fl, list, category, disambig, draft, file, portal, project, template, na (case-insensitive). See the project's quality assessment department for details.
- The relevant subcategory of Category:Water polo articles by quality based upon the
|class=parameter.
- The relevant subcategory of Category:Water polo articles by quality based upon the
- importance – valid values are: top, high, mid, low, na (case-insensitive). For a detailed explanation with lots of examples, see the project's importance assessment department.
- This importance rating populates the relevant subcategory of Category:Water polo articles by importance.
Other parameters
Some of the following parameters populate the relevant subcategories of Category:WikiProject Swimming articles:
- attention – set
|attention=yesif the article needs immediate attention from experienced editors. Use only if another parameter does not cover the need for attention; this should be used sparingly. It is strongly encouraged to also add a section to the talk page explaining what needs attention.- This parameter populates Category:Swimming articles needing attention.
- audio-file – set
|audio-file=yesif an audio file has been created of this article.- This parameter populates Category:Swimming articles with audio files.
- 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 Matthew Webb, use
|listas=Webb, Matthewso that the talk page will show up in the W's and not the M's of the various assessment and administrative categories). 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.
If the article is using {{WikiProject banner shell}} then it is preferable to add|listas=to that template instead of a project banner template. Putting the parameter on more than one template is not required. - needs-infobox – set
|needs-infobox=yesif the article needs an infobox. Remember that infoboxes are not suitable for all articles, and can overwhelm short articles.- This parameter populates Category:Swimming articles without infoboxes.
- needs-photo – set
|needs-photo=yesto mark the page as needing a photograph.- This parameter populates Category:Swimming articles needing photographs.
- auto – This parameter is for the use of bots and indicates that the article has been automatically rated:
|auto=length– based on the length of the article|auto=inherit– because one or more other projects use this class|auto=yes(or|auto=stub), in conjunction with|class=stub– as Stub-Class because it uses a stub template- Use of the above values (or value combinations) with this parameter populates Category:Automatically assessed swimming articles.
- category – set
|category=noif, and only if, a banner is being used for demonstration or testing purposes, to prevent unnecessary or undesirable categorization. Otherwise, omit this parameter.
Notes
To avoid needlessly cluttering up talk pages, it is usually appropriate to remove any unused parameters from the template. A common initial configuration for the template includes the following basic parameters:
{{WikiProject Water polo|class=|importance=}}