Template:WikiProject banner shell

This template is of interest to the following WikiProjects:

Template documentation[view] [edit] [history] [purge]

This template uses TemplateStyles:

Template:WikiProject banner shell/styles.css

This template is used on approximately 2,800,000 pages, or roughly 19407% of all pages.
To avoid major disruption and server load, any changes should be tested in the template's /sandbox or /testcases subpages, or in your own user subpage. The tested changes can be added to this page in a single edit. Consider discussing changes on the talk page before implementing them.

This template is used by the standard installation of AutoWikiBrowser (AWB). If you are planning to make any major changes to this template, how it should be used, or nominate it for deletion, please notify AWB's user base and maintainers beforehand at Wikipedia talk:AWB as a courtesy.

This template is used by one or more bots.

If you intend to change this template in any significant way, move or nominate it for deletion, please inform the bot operators. Thank you. The relevant bots are: cewbot.

Usage

This template combines talk page banners into a nested shell and/or displays a general quality assessment for an article. It was designed for WikiProject banners and will only work reliably with such templates. WikiProject banner shell may be added to an article talk page with no wikiproject banners, but with a |class= quality assessment value, in which case it will populate a general category like Category:C-Class articles

WikiProject assessment bots may change shell templates per this usage guideline when the bot is editing the talk page for other reasons. If local consensus on a talk page is to not follow this guideline, please specify |collapsed=yes or |collapsed=no explicitly to override the bots.

Syntax

The |1= parameter is not optional and must be included at the end of the first line.

Basic

{{WikiProject banner shell|class=|1=
{{FirstProjectBanner}}
{{SecondProjectBanner}}
{{ThirdProjectBanner}}
…
}}

Full

{{WikiProject banner shell|class=|blp=|blpo=|activepol=|collapsed=|1=
{{FirstProjectBanner}}
{{SecondProjectBanner}}
{{ThirdProjectBanner}}
…
|header=
}}

Optional parameters

Adding a quality rating after |class= will cause the banner shell to display the quality rating for the article (e.g. Start, C, GA etc.) based on Wikipedia:Content assessment. This value will be available to the project banner templates, which may use it in forming categories like Category:Start-class Ruritania articles.
Adding |blp=yes or its alias |living=yes will display the {{BLP}} banner above the shell, detailing Wikipedia's official policies regarding biographies of living persons. This must be added for articles about living people.
Adding |blpo=yes will display the {{BLP others}} banner above the shell. This should be used for articles where {{BLP}} does not apply directly to the subject, but which nevertheless have content that directly relates to other living persons. It is mutually-exclusive with |blp=yes.
Adding |activepol=yes will display the {{Active politician}} banner above the shell.
Adding |collapsed=yes will cause the outer table to be collapsed, hiding even the project names. Explicitly adding |collapsed=no (the default) will cause the outer table to not be collapsed, showing the summary of the banners, and prevent any bots that might have logic that would cause them to assign a value of yes from doing so.
Adding |header=Custom header text allows for the replacement of the default table title text ("This {{PAGETYPE}} is of interest to the following WikiProjects:") with whatever is supplied as its value.

Limitations and bugs

Pages where expansion depth is exceeded issue: This "shell template" adds to the "expansion depth" of the page. In certain circumstances, it can cause the page to exceed the limit. If this happens, find out which enclosed template is already "near the limit" and notify the WikiProject responsible for that template that there is an issue. Include details, as some WikiProject templates only get "close to the limit" with uncommon combinations of parameters. (Example report) –davidwr (talk/contribs) 16:24, 8 January 2021 (UTC)

TemplateData

TemplateData used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools
This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. See a monthly parameter usage report for Template:WikiProject banner shell in articles based on its TemplateData. TemplateData for WikiProject banner shell INTERNAL: package.lua:75: invalid escape sequence near '""#%<>['