Template:WikiProject Psychology/doc

This is a documentation subpage for Template:WikiProject Psychology.
It may contain usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page.

This template is used on approximately 20,000 pages and changes may be widely noticed. Test changes in the template's /sandbox or /testcases subpages, or in your own user subpage. Consider discussing changes on the talk page before implementing them.

Usage

Please note: This template categorizes pages using assessment grades and importance through built-in transclusion. An article's assessment is generated from the class and importance parameters in the {{WikiProject Psychology |class= |importance=}} banner on its talk page. This template should be transcluded and not substituted (subst:) because it employs conditional code. Transclusion also allows easy updating of all the Project's talk pages without having to edit hundreds of pages.

Full code

{{WikiProject Psychology
|class=
|importance= <!-- or |imp= -->
|attention=
|needs-infobox=
|category=
|listas=
}}

Quality

An article's quality assessment is generated from the class parameter in the {{WikiProject Banner Shell}}. Articles that have the {{WikiProject Psychology}} project banner on their talk page will be added to the appropriate categories by quality.

The following values may be used for the class parameter to describe the quality of the article (see Wikipedia:Content assessment for assessment criteria):


FA (for featured articles only; adds articles to Category:FA-Class psychology articles)		FA
A (adds articles to Category:A-Class psychology articles)		A
GA (for good articles only; adds articles to Category:GA-Class psychology articles)		GA
B (adds articles to Category:B-Class psychology articles)		B
C (adds articles to Category:C-Class psychology articles)		C
Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class psychology articles)		Start
Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class psychology articles)		Stub
FL (for featured lists only; adds articles to Category:FL-Class psychology articles)		FL
List (adds articles to Category:List-Class psychology articles)		List

For non-standard grades and non-mainspace content, the following values may be used for the class parameter:


Category (for categories; adds pages to Category:Category-Class psychology articles)		Category
Disambig (for disambiguation pages; adds pages to Category:Disambig-Class psychology articles)		Disambig
Draft (for drafts; adds pages to Category:Draft-Class psychology articles)		Draft
File (for files and timed text; adds pages to Category:File-Class psychology articles)		File
Portal (for portal pages; adds pages to Category:Portal-Class psychology articles)		Portal
Project (for project pages; adds pages to Category:Project-Class psychology articles)		Project
Template (for templates and modules; adds pages to Category:Template-Class psychology articles)		Template
NA (for any other pages where assessment is unnecessary; adds pages to Category:NA-Class psychology articles)		NA
??? (articles for which a valid class has not yet been provided are listed in Category:Unassessed psychology articles)		???

Importance

An article's importance assessment is generated from the importance parameter in the {{WikiProject Psychology}} project banner on its talk page:

{{WikiProject Psychology|importance=???}}

The following values may be used for the importance parameter to describe the relative importance of the article within the project (see Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Priority of topic for assessment criteria):


Top (adds articles to Category:Top-importance psychology articles)		Top
High (adds articles to Category:High-importance psychology articles)		High
Mid (adds articles to Category:Mid-importance psychology articles)		Mid
Low (adds articles to Category:Low-importance psychology articles)		Low
NA (adds articles to Category:NA-importance psychology articles)		NA
??? (articles for which a valid importance rating has not yet been provided are listed in Category:Unknown-importance psychology articles)		???

Optional parameters

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:Psychology articles needing attention.
class – valid values are fa, a, ga, b, c, start, stub, fl, list, category, disambig, draft, file, portal, project, template, na (case-insensitive). See the project's quality scale for details. Setting an explicit value of NA is rarely necessary; for this, either leave |class= blank or omit the parameter.
importance – valid values are: top, high, mid, low, na (case-insensitive). See the project's importance scale for details. Setting an explicit value of NA is rarely necessary; for this, either leave |importance= blank or omit the parameter.
- |imp= can be used in place of |importance=
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 Sigmund Freud, use |listas=Freud, Sigmund so that the talk page will show up in the F's and not the S'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.
needs-infobox – set |needs-infobox=yes if the article needs an infobox. Remember that infoboxes are not suitable for all articles, and can overwhelm short articles.
- This parameter populates Category:Psychology articles needing infoboxes.
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.

TemplateData

The banner for WikiProject Psychology

Template parameters
This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.
Parameter		Description	Type	Status
class	`class`	The article's quality rating. Suggested values `FA` `FL` `GA` `B` `C` `Start` `Stub` `List`	String	required
importance	`importance` `imp`	How important the article is for WikiProject Psychology. Suggested values `Top` `NA` `High` `Low` `Mid`	String	suggested
category	`category`	no description	Unknown	optional
listas	`listas`	no description	Unknown	optional
attention	`attention`	Whether the article requires immediate attention from WikiProject Psychology.	Unknown	optional
needs-infobox	`needs-infobox`	Whether the article requires an infobox	Unknown	optional