Template:WikiProject Death

Template documentation

This is the WikiProject banner template used by WikiProject Death to keep track of articles within its scope.

Basic usage

Place this on the talk page of relevant articles:

{{WikiProject Death |class= |importance= }}

Full usage

It is usual to remove any unused parameters from the template call.

{{WikiProject Death |category= |listas= |class= |importance= |auto= |attention= |suicide= }}

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

• auto – this parameter is for the use of bots and indicates that the article has been automatically rated:
  • length – based on the length of the article;
  • inherit – because one or more other projects use this class;
  • yes or stub (in conjunction with |class=stub) – as Stub-Class because it uses a stub template.
  Use of the above values with this parameter populates Category:Automatically assessed Death articles.
• attention – set |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. This parameter populates Category:Death articles needing attention.

Task forces

• suicide – set |suicide=yes if the article is supported by the Suicide task force. This parameter populates Category:Suicide articles. This parameter populates the relevant subcategory of Category:Suicide articles by quality based on the |class= parameter. This parameter uses |suicide-importance= to populate the relevant subcategory of Category:Suicide articles by importance.

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 Death articles	105
A		A	Category:A-Class Death articles	1
GA		GA	Category:GA-Class Death articles	304
B		B	Category:B-Class Death articles	1,645
C		C	Category:C-Class Death articles	4,638
Start		Start	Category:Start-Class Death articles	8,700
Stub		Stub	Category:Stub-Class Death articles	1,477
FL		FL	Category:FL-Class Death articles	12
List		List	Category:List-Class Death articles	1,729
NA		NA	Category:NA-Class Death articles	1,454
File		File	Category:File-Class Death articles	141
Draft		Draft	Category:Draft-Class Death articles	44
Category		Category	Category:Category-Class Death articles	29,257
Disambig		Disambig	Category:Disambig-Class Death articles	101
Portal		Portal	Category:Portal-Class Death articles	1
Template		Template	Category:Template-Class Death articles	196

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 Death articles.
• Disambiguation pages will automatically be classified as Disambig-class and placed in Category:Disambig-Class Death 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 Death articles	1,454
Project talk
Help talk
MediaWiki talk
File talk		File	Category:File-Class Death articles	141
TimedText talk
Category talk		Category	Category:Category-Class Death articles	29,257
Portal talk		Portal	Category:Portal-Class Death articles	1
Template talk		Template	Category:Template-Class Death articles	196
Module talk
Draft talk		Draft	Category:Draft-Class Death articles	44

In all other circumstances, articles will be classed as Unassessed and placed in Category:Unassessed Death 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 Death articles	52
High	High	Category:High-importance Death articles	384
Mid	Mid	Category:Mid-importance Death articles	2,163
Low	Low	Category:Low-importance Death articles	16,013
NA	NA	Category:NA-importance Death articles	31,243

TemplateData

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

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
auto	auto	Indicates that the article has been automatically assessed by a bot or other tool. Example yes	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
suicide	suicide	Triggers the Suicide task force in the banner. Suggested values yes no Example yes	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
attention	attention	Indicates that the article needs immediate attention from experienced editors. Example yes	Line	optional

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