Template:WikiProject Illinois

Illinois C‑class High‑importance

Illinois portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Illinois, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Illinois on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks. C This article has been rated as C-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. High This article has been rated as High-importance on the project's importance scale. More information: /  This article has been marked as needing immediate attention. This article has been marked as needing an infobox. This article lacks sufficient references and/or adequate inline citations. An editor has requested that an image or photograph be added to this article.

This WikiProject banner template uses Module:WikiProject banner, a meta-template for easily creating and maintaining project banners. Please report any errors or feature requests to Module talk:WikiProject banner. Information or warnings about the template are below: The 4 notes in this template will automatically collapse if more than 2 of them are activated. To change this setting, set or update the |COLLAPSED= parameter. This banner template includes a link to Portal:Illinois, and the accompanying image is File:Flag of Illinois.svg. See the instructions on how to change this. Automatic parameter checking is enabled and pages with invalid parameters can be found in the tracking category.

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This template is used on approximately 40,000 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.

Shortcuts

• {{WPILLINOIS}}
• {{WP Illinois}}

Usage

To add an article to the list, place {{WikiProject Illinois|class= |importance= }} at the top of the article's talk page, adding it to Category:WikiProject Illinois articles. This template should be transcluded as {{WikiProject Illinois}} 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 thousands of pages. The template also employs several optional data field parameters as described below. For an example of how the template will appear if all parameters are active, please see: Template:WikiProject Illinois/testcases.

{{WikiProject Illinois
 |class =
 |importance =
 |attention =
 |imageneeded =
 |in =
 |imagedetails =
 |needs-infobox =
 |unref =
}}

Parameters legend

• class: Options are FA, FL, A, GA, B, Start, Stub, NA, Cat, Dab, Image, List, Portal, Redir, and Template. If blank (#default), this will default as unassessed and list the article at Category:Unassessed WikiProject Illinois articles. NA is "not applicable". Descriptions of some of the options can be found at WikiProject Illinois/Quality scale.
• importance: Top, High, Mid, Low, NA. If blank, this will default as unknown importance. Descriptions of the options can be found at WikiProject Illinois/Importance scale.
• attention: Answer yes if the page needs immediate attention. Leave blank or delete if not. Adds talk pages to Category:WikiProject Illinois articles needing attention.
• imageneeded: Answer yes to request a photograph, image, or map of the subject be added to the article. Leave blank or delete if not.
• in: Used in conjunction with the imageneeded parameter to place the image request into a specific Illinois county. Leave blank or delete if not. For example, "in=DuPage County, Illinois" will place the article talk page into Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in DuPage County, Illinois.
• imagedetails: This free-form parameter can be used in conjunction with the imageneeded parameter to add specific details about the images being requested. For example, "imagedetails=Please add a live-action shot to this sports article" will add the following: "An editor suggests the following: Please add a live-action shot to this sports article."
• needs-infobox: Answer yes if the page needs an infobox. Leave blank or delete if not. Adds talk pages to Category:Illinois articles needing infoboxes.
• unref: Answer yes if the article needs additional references or inline citations. Leave blank or delete if not. Adds talk pages to Category:Unreferenced WikiProject Illinois articles.

Notes

To avoid needlessly cluttering up talk pages, it is usually appropriate to remove any unused parameters from the template.

See also

• {{User WikiProject Illinois}}

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