Template:WikiProject South Africa

Template documentation

This is the WikiProject banner template used by WikiProject South Africa to keep track of articles within its scope. All articles are categorised into Category:WikiProject South Africa articles.

Basic usage

Place this on the talk page of relevant articles:

{{WikiProject South Africa |class= |importance= }}

Full usage

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

{{WikiProject South Africa |category= |listas= |class= |importance= |attention= |needs-infobox= |image-needed= |image-details= |Municipalities= |Protected areas= |Protected areas-importance= |Military history= |Politics= |PSPSA= |PSPSA-importance= }}

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

• 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:South Africa articles needing attention.
• 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:South Africa articles needing infoboxes.
• image-needed – to request that an image or photograph be added to the page.
• image-details – additional text to insert before the words "be added to this article" to describe the subject or type of image that is requested.

Task forces

• Municipalities – set |Municipalities=yes if the article is supported by the municipalities task force. This parameter populates Category:South African municipalities task force articles.
• Protected areas – set |Protected areas=yes if the article is supported by the African protected areas task force. This parameter populates Category:African protected areas task force articles. This parameter populates the relevant subcategory of Category:African protected areas articles by quality based on the |class= parameter.
• Protected areas-importance – This parameter sets the importance of the article according to the African protected areas task force. It populates the relevant subcategory of Category:African protected areas articles by importance. See #Importance assessment for valid values.
• Military history – set |Military history=yes if the article is supported by the African military history task force. This parameter populates Category:African military history task force articles. This parameter populates the relevant subcategory of Category:African military history articles by quality based on the |class= parameter.
• Politics – set |Politics=yes if the article is supported by the South African politics task force. This parameter populates Category:South African politics task force articles. This parameter populates the relevant subcategory of Category:South African politics articles by quality based on the |class= parameter.
• PSPSA – set |PSPSA=yes if the article is supported by Wikipedia Primary School project. This parameter populates Category:Wikipedia Primary School articles. This parameter populates the relevant subcategory of Category:PSP SA articles by quality based on the |class= parameter.
• PSPSA-importance – This parameter sets the importance of the article according to Wikipedia Primary School project. It populates the relevant subcategory of Category:PSP SA articles by importance. See #Importance assessment for valid values.

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 South Africa articles	17
A		A	Category:A-Class South Africa articles	3
GA		GA	Category:GA-Class South Africa articles	105
B		B	Category:B-Class South Africa articles	584
C		C	Category:C-Class South Africa articles	2,997
Start		Start	Category:Start-Class South Africa articles	9,829
Stub		Stub	Category:Stub-Class South Africa articles	13,000
FL		FL	Category:FL-Class South Africa articles	13
List		List	Category:List-Class South Africa articles	1,053
NA		NA	Category:NA-Class South Africa articles	41
File		File	Category:File-Class South Africa articles	134
Draft		Draft	Category:Draft-Class South Africa articles	85
Category		Category	Category:Category-Class South Africa articles	9,814
Disambig		Disambig	Category:Disambig-Class South Africa articles	46
Portal		Portal	Category:Portal-Class South Africa articles	91
Redirect		Redirect	Category:Redirect-Class South Africa articles	1,482
Template		Template	Category:Template-Class South Africa articles	783

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 Redirect-class and placed in Category:Redirect-Class South Africa articles.
• Disambiguation pages will automatically be classified as Disambig-class and placed in Category:Disambig-Class South Africa 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 South Africa articles	41
Project talk
Help talk
MediaWiki talk
File talk		File	Category:File-Class South Africa articles	134
TimedText talk
Category talk		Category	Category:Category-Class South Africa articles	9,814
Portal talk		Portal	Category:Portal-Class South Africa articles	91
Template talk		Template	Category:Template-Class South Africa articles	783
Module talk
Draft talk		Draft	Category:Draft-Class South Africa articles	85

In all other circumstances, articles will be classed as Unassessed and placed in Category:Unassessed South Africa 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 South Africa articles	132
High	High	Category:High-importance South Africa articles	527
Mid	Mid	Category:Mid-importance South Africa articles	5,804
Low	Low	Category:Low-importance South Africa articles	14,549
NA	NA	Category:NA-importance South Africa articles	12,540

TemplateData

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

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
Politics	Politics	Triggers the South African politics task force in the banner. Suggested values yes no Example yes	Line	optional
Protected areas	Protected areas	Triggers the African protected areas task force in the banner. Suggested values yes no Example yes	Line	optional
needs-infobox	needs-infobox	Indicates that the article needs an infobox. 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
image-needed	image-needed	no description	Line	optional
image-details	image-details	no description	Line	optional
PSPSA	PSPSA	Triggers Wikipedia Primary School project in the banner. Suggested values yes no Example yes	Line	optional
Military history	Military history	Triggers the African military history task force in the banner. Suggested values yes no Example yes	Line	optional
PSPSA-importance	PSPSA-importance	Set the importance for Wikipedia Primary School project Suggested values top high mid low NA Example low	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
Protected areas-importance	Protected areas-importance	Set the importance for the African protected areas task force Suggested values top high mid low NA Example low	Line	optional
Municipalities	Municipalities	Triggers the municipalities task force in the banner. Suggested values yes no Example yes	Line	optional
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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