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Template:WikiProject Fishes

Fishes C‑class High‑importance

This article is part of WikiProject Fishes, an attempt to organise a detailed guide to all topics related to Fish taxa. To participate, you can edit the attached article, or contribute further at WikiProject Fishes. This project is an offshoot of the WikiProject Tree of Life.FishesWikipedia:WikiProject FishesTemplate:WikiProject FishesFishes articles C This article has been rated as C-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. High This article has been rated as High-importance on the project's importance scale. More information: /  This article has been marked as needing immediate attention. This article has been marked as needing an infobox. This article lacks sufficient references and/or adequate inline citations. This article was WikiProject Fishes's article of the month on the Fishes Portal. This article was WikiProject Fishes's picture of the month on the Fishes Portal. Wikipedia additionally has featured pictures of fish. An editor has requested that an imageorphotographbeadded to this article.

This WikiProject banner template uses Module:WikiProject banner, a meta-template for easily creating and maintaining project banners. Please report any errors or feature requests to Module talk:WikiProject banner. Information or warnings about the template are below: The 6 notes in this template will automatically collapse if more than 2 of them are activated. To change this setting, set or update the |COLLAPSED= parameter. This banner template includes a link to Portal:Fish, and the accompanying image is File:Antennarius striatus.jpg. See the instructions on how to change this. Automatic parameter checking is enabled and pages with invalid parameters can be found in the tracking category.

Usage

This template {{WikiProject Fishes}} adds articles to subcategoriesofCategory:WikiProject Fishes articles and is a self-reference. Please add it to talk pages of relevant articles and non-article pages.

This template should be transcludedas{{WikiProject Fishes}} and not substituted {{subst:}} because it employs conditional code. Transclusion also allows easy updating of all the WikiProject's talk pages without having to edit thousands of pages individually. For examples of how the template will appear under various parameter scenarios, please see Template:WikiProject Fishes/testcases.

A common initial configuration for the template includes the following basic parameters:

{{WikiProject Fishes|class=|importance=|needs-photo=|imagedetails=|in=|unref=}}

The template also employs several optional data field parameters as described below. The full syntax is as follows:

{{WikiProject Fishes
|class=
|importance=
|attention=
|needs-infobox=
|past-selected-fish=
|past-selected-picture=
|needs-photo=
|imagedetails=
|in=
|unref=
|peer-review=
|old-peer-review=
|category=
|listas=
}}

Parameters legend

• class: FA, A, GA, B, C, Start, Stub, FL, List, Cat, Dab, File, Portal, Project, Template, and blank (#default), and NA. NA is "non article", which includes redirects and user talk pages. Some of the option descriptions may be found at WikiProject Fishes/Quality scale.
• importance: Top, High, Mid, Low, NA, and blank (#default). Some of the option descriptions may be found at WikiProject Fishes/Importance scale.
• needs-photo: Answer yes to request that a photograph, map, drawing, diagram, equation, or other image be added to the page. Leave blank or delete if not.
• in: Used in conjunction with the needs-photo=yes parameter to place the image request into a specific location, such as a Fishes county. For example, "in=Los Angeles County, California" will place the article talk page into Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Los Angeles County, California. Leave blank or delete if not.
• imagedetails: This free-form parameter can be used in conjunction with the needs-photo parameter to add specific details about the images being requested. For example, |imagedetails=Please add an action shot to this article. will add the following to the template display: "An editor suggests the following: Please add a live-action shot to this sports article."
• unref: Answer yes if the page needs additional references or inline citations. Leave blank or delete if not.
• past-selected-fish: Enter Month Year (e.g., "past-selected-fish=June 2006") if the fish article previously was selected as the Fishes Portal's fish of the month. Leave blank or delete if not.
• past-selected-picture: Enter Month Year (e.g., "past-selected-picture=March 2008") if the image previously was selected as the Fishes Portal's picture of the month. Leave blank or delete if not.
• attention: Answer yes if the page needs immediate attention. Leave blank or delete if not.
• needs-infobox: Answer yes if the page needs an infobox. Leave blank or delete if not.
• 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 given name surname, use |listas=Surname, given name so that the talk page will show up in the S's and not the g'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.

Aliases

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

Notes

To avoid needlessly cluttering up talk pages, it is usually appropriate to remove any unused parameters from the template.