Template:WikiProject Marine life/doc

{{WikiProject Marine life}} is a talk page template that is used as a shortcut to other pages in the WikiProject.

{{WikiProject Marine life
|class      = 
|importance = 
|assessed   = 
|merge      = 
|COTM-nom   = 
|COTM       = 
|COTM-old   = 
|needs-image = 
|needs-taxobox = 
|listas     = 
}}

Assessment

{{WikiProject Marine life}} is also used as a way of assessing articles. You should supply the correct assessment when you add this template to a talk page.

• class – valid values are fa, a, ga, b, c, start, stub, fl, list, na (case-insensitive). See the project's quality scale for details. Setting an explicit value of NA is rarely necessary; for this, either leave |class= blank or omit the parameter.

An article's quality assessment is recorded using the |class= parameter in the {{WikiProject banner shell}}. Articles that have the {{WikiProject Marine life}} banner template on their talk page will be added to the appropriate categories by quality.

The following standard grades may be used to describe the quality of mainspace articles (see Wikipedia:Content assessment for assessment criteria):

FA	(for featured articles only; adds them to the FA-Class Marine life articles category)		FA
GA	(for good articles only; adds them to the GA-Class Marine life articles category)		GA
B	(for articles that satisfy all of the B-Class criteria; adds them to the B-Class Marine life articles category)		B
C	(for substantial articles; adds them to the C-Class Marine life articles category)		C
Start	(for developing articles; adds them to the Start-Class Marine life articles category)		Start
Stub	(for basic articles; adds them to the Stub-Class Marine life articles category)		Stub
???	(articles for which a valid class has not yet been provided are listed in the Unassessed Marine life articles category)		???

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• importance – valid values are: top, high, mid, low, na (case-insensitive). See the project's importance scale for details. Setting an explicit value of NA is rarely necessary; for this, either leave |importance= blank or omit the parameter.

An article's importance assessment is generated from the importance parameter in the {{WikiProject Marine life}} project banner on its talk page:

{{WikiProject Marine life|importance=???}}

The following values may be used for the importance parameter to describe the relative importance of the article within the project (see Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Priority of topic for assessment criteria):

Top (adds articles to Category:Top-importance Marine life articles)		Top
High (adds articles to Category:High-importance Marine life articles)		High
Mid (adds articles to Category:Mid-importance Marine life articles)		Mid
Low (adds articles to Category:Low-importance Marine life articles)		Low
NA (adds articles to Category:NA-importance Marine life articles)		NA
??? (articles for which a valid importance rating has not yet been provided are listed in Category:Unknown-importance Marine life articles)		???

• assessed – set |assessed=yes if the page has been assessed by editors of the WikiProject.

• COTM-nom – set |COTM-nom=yes if the page is a candidate to be the project collaboration.
• COTM – set |COTM=yes if the page is currently the project collaboration.
• COTM-old – set |COTM-old=yes (or any non-blank value other than "no", "n", "0" or "¬", such as the dates it was part of the collaboration) if the page was a past project collaboration.
• 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 Jacques Cousteau, use |listas=Cousteau, Jacques so that the talk page will show up in the C's and not the J'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.
• merge – set |merge=yes if the possible merging of the page has been discussed by editors of the WikiProject.
• needs-image – set |needs-image=yes to request that a picture or pictures be included in the page to improve its quality.
  • This parameter populates Category:Wikipedia requested images of marine life.
• needs-taxobox – set |needs-taxobox=yes to request that a taxobox be included in the page to improve its quality.
  • This parameter populates Category:Missing taxobox.
• 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.

Aliases

• The parameters |needs-photo=, |photo-needed= and |image-needed= are recognised as aliases for |needs-image=. If more than one is present, the order of precedence, from highest to lowest, is: |needs-image= → |needs-photo= → |photo-needed= → |image-needed= . Parameters with lower precedence are ignored.

• The parameters |taxobox-needed=, |taxobox-requested= and |taxobox= are recognised as aliases for |needs-taxobox=. If more than one is present, the order of precedence, from highest to lowest, is: |needs-taxobox= → |taxobox-needed= → |taxobox-requested= → |taxobox= . Parameters with lower precedence are ignored.