Template:Wikipedia Help Project

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This is the project banner for the Help Project, a centralized discussion area for improving and maintaining Wikipedia's help system, including the introduction and tutorial pages. It automatically adds pages to Category:Wikipedia Help Project pages.

Usage

This is the basic version of the meta template, all one needs to do is place {{Wikipedia Help Project}} on a page's talk. However you can additionally classify the page's quality class and importance:

Optional parameters

• class – valid values are listed in the custom class mask. See the project's quality scale for details.
  • Note that there is no Stub-class
• importance – valid values are listed in the custom importance mask. See the project's importance scale for details.
• 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 A quick guide to templates, use |listas=Quick guide to templates, A so that the talk page will show up in the Q's and not the A'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.
  It is not required if another WikiProject template on the same page has its own |listas= set, since it not only affects categories used by the banner in which it is set, but it also affects the sortkey of all other banners and templates.
• small – this parameter is no longer supported and can safely be removed from the template.
• 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.

Known issues

There are some minor issues because the assessment system was originally designed for articles:

• The template may display "This page does not require a rating on the project's quality scale." for pages which could use a quality rating. Please ignore the message and rate them anyway!
• Categories end in "articles" e.g. Category:A-Class Help articles despite pages being in other namespaces.

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. Click here to see a monthly parameter usage report for this template based on this TemplateData. TemplateData for Wikipedia Help Project No description. Template parameters Parameter Description Type Status Small version small Set to "yes" to display a small version of the template aligned along the right side of the page (as opposed to at the top).This parameter does not work as expected if the banner template is enclosed in WikiProject banner shell or any of its redirects. ['yes', 'no'] Auto value no Unknown optional List as listas A sortkey for the article talk page. consider also setting the DEFAULTSORT for the article when setting this parameter. It is not required if another WikiProject template on the same page has its own |listas= set. Unknown suggested Class class ['A', 'B', 'C', 'Start', 'File', 'Category', 'Template', 'NA'] Unknown suggested Importance importance ['NA', 'Bottom', 'Low', 'Mid', 'High', 'Top'] Unknown suggested

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