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Please note: This template should be transcludedas{{WikiProject Biography}} and not substituted, because it employs conditional code. Transclusion also allows easy updating of all the Project's talk pages without having to edit hundreds of thousands of pages. Many of these parameters place the talk page of the article into an appropriate category. A manually generated (though sporadically updated) list of all the categories used in this template is at Template:WikiProject Biography/category list.
Place this template on the talk page of biography articles.
If the person is living:
{{WikiProject Biography
| living=yes
| class= <!--Start, Stub, etc.-->
| listas= <!--see note below -->
}}
If the person is not living:
{{WikiProject Biography
| living=no| class= <!--Start, Stub, etc.-->
| listas= <!--see note below -->
}}
|listas= parameter will be formatted as "Surname, Given Names", but this is not always true in certain cultures. See WP:NAMESORT, MOS:SURNAME, and MOS:GIVENNAME for further details.If you have a lot of time on your hands:
{{WikiProject Biography
| living = <!-- yes/no (MANDATORY FIELD) -->
| class =
| listas =
| a&e-work-group =
| a&e-priority =
| filmbio-work-group =
| filmbio-priority =
| military-work-group =
| military-priority =
| musician-work-group =
| musician-priority =
| peerage-work-group =
| peerage-priority =
| politician-work-group =
| politician-priority =
| royalty-work-group =
| royalty-priority =
| s&a-work-group =
| s&a-priority =
| sports-work-group =
| sports-priority =
| A-Class =
| activepol =
| attention =
| auto =
| blpo =
| needs-discography =
| needs-filmography =
| needs-infobox =
| needs-photo =
| past-collaboration =
| peer-review =
| old-peer-review =
}}
|living= Answer yesorno. If yes, this also affects the |needs-photo= parameter, to emphasize the fact that free images must be used. This parameter must be specified whether or not the person is living. In case of music bands or any other list of people that is under the scope of this WikiProject, the parameter should be set to "yes", if at least one of the people in that list is alive.
|living=yes, this parameter adds {{BLP}} above WikiProject Biography and populates Category:Biography articles of living people.|activepol= Answer yes, if the article is about a currently active politician, otherwise remove this line.
|living=yes.|blpo= Answer yes, if the subject of the article is not a living person, but the article contains sensitive information about other living persons, otherwise remove this line.
|living=no.Note: The {{BLP}}, {{Active politician}} and {{BLP others}} banners will not be visible if WikiProject Biography is used within {{WikiProject banner shell}}, but the relevant categories will still be added. In such cases, these banners can still be added to a talk page by using the relevant parameters in {{WikiProject banner shell}}; please refer to that template's documentation for further instruction.
Any changes to the wording of these banners should be requested on the corresponding template talk page, not here.
|class= blank or omit the parameter.
|priority= blank or omit the parameter.
|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
|a&e-work-group=yes if the article is supported by the arts and entertainment work group.
|class= parameter.|a&e-work-group=yes is set; uses the same values as |importance=) – Importance rating within the arts and entertainment work group
|filmbio-work-group=yes instead; if the article is about a musician, please use |musician-work-group=yes instead. Note: setting either |filmbio-work-group=yes or |musician-work-group=yes will cause |a&e-work-group=yes to be ignored.|filmbio-work-group=yes if the article is supported by WikiProject Actors and Filmmakers.
|class= parameter.|filmbio-work-group=yes is set; uses the same values as |importance=) – Importance rating within WikiProject Actors and Filmmakers
|military-work-group=yes if the article is supported by the military biography work group.
|class= parameter.|military-work-group=yes is set; uses the same values as |importance=) – Importance rating within the military biography work group
|musician-work-group=yes if the article is supported by WikiProject Musicians.
|class= parameter.|musician-work-group=yes is set; uses the same values as |importance=) – Importance rating within WikiProject Musicians
|peerage-work-group=yes if the article is supported by WikiProject Peerage and Baronetage.
|class= parameter.|peerage-work-group=yes is set; uses the same values as |importance=) – Importance rating within WikiProject Peerage and Baronetage
|politician-work-group=yes if the article is supported by the politics and government work group.
|class= parameter.|politician-work-group=yes is set; uses the same values as |importance=) – Importance rating within the politics and government work group
|royalty-work-group=yes if the article is supported by WikiProject Royalty and Nobility.
|class= parameter.|royalty-work-group=yes is set; uses the same values as |importance=) – Importance rating within WikiProject Royalty and Nobility
|s&a-work-group=yes if the article is supported by the science and academia work group.
|class= parameter.|s&a-work-group=yes is set; uses the same values as |importance=) – Importance rating within the science and academia work group
|sports-work-group=yes if the article is supported by the sports and games work group.
|class= parameter.|sports-work-group=yes is set; uses the same values as |importance=) – Importance rating within the sports and games work group
|attention=yes if 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.
|needs-discography= Answer yes, if the article needs a discography section, otherwise remove this line.
|musician-work-group=yes.|needs-filmography= Answer yes, if the article needs a filmography section, otherwise remove this line.
|filmbio-work-group=yes.|needs-infobox=yes if the article needs an infobox. Remember that infoboxes are not suitable for all articles, and can overwhelm short articles.
|needs-photo= Answer yes to request that a photograph or picture of the subject be added to the article, otherwise remove this line.
|past-collaboration=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.
|peer-review=yes if the article is currently undergoingapeer review, or to request that the peer review process for this page should be begun.
|old-peer-review=yes if the article has had a peer review which is now archived.
Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Peer review/{{SUBJECTPAGENAME}}, set this parameter; i.e. if the peer review page is Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Peer review/Foobar, set |title=Foobar|peer-review= |old-peer-review= and |title= will place the page in Category:Biography articles with incorrect peer review or A-Class tagging .|A-Class= Answer pass if the article has passed an A-Class review, or fail if the article has failed a review, otherwise remove this line.
|A-Class=pass populates Category:Successful requests for biography A-Class review.|A-Class=fail populates Category:Failed requests for biography A-Class review.|listas=Doe, John so that the talk page will show up in the D'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.|listas= to that template instead of a project banner template. Putting the parameter on more than one template is not required.
The following parameters should not normally be used:
|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.|core=yes if, and only if, the article is listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Core biographies.
|baronets-work-group= is recognised as an alias for |peerage-work-group=. If both |peerage-work-group= and |baronets-work-group= are present, |baronets-work-group= is ignored.|baronets-priority= is recognised as an alias for |peerage-priority=. If both |peerage-priority= and |baronets-priority= are present, |baronets-priority= is ignored.|military-task-force= is recognised as an alias for |military-work-group=. If both |military-work-group= and |military-task-force= are present, |military-task-force= is ignored.
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