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

This template is used on approximately 65,000 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

WikiProject Books

(Rated NA-class)

This template is within the scope of WikiProject Books. To participate in the project, please visit its page, where you can join the project and discuss matters related to book articles. To use this banner, please refer to the documentation. For guidelines on this template's usage, see its documentation.BooksWikipedia:WikiProject BooksTemplate:WikiProject BooksBook articles NA This article has been rated as NA-Class on the project's quality scale.

Please note: This template should be transcluded ({{ WikiProject Books}}) 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.

{{WikiProject Books
|class = 
|needs-infobox = 
|needs-infobox-cover = 
|listas = 
}}

Optional parameters

• 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.
• 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:Book articles without infoboxes.
• needs-infobox-cover – set |needs-infobox-cover=yes to requested that a picture or pictures be included in this article to improve its quality.
  • This parameter populates Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of publications.
• 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 Johannes Gutenberg, use |listas=Gutenberg, Johannes so that the talk page will show up in the G's and not the J'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.
• 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.

Example 1: Basic

{{WikiProject Books}}

or

{{WikiProject Books|class=|needs-infobox=|needs-infobox-cover=|listas=}}

WikiProject Books

(Rated NA-class)

This template is within the scope of WikiProject Books. To participate in the project, please visit its page, where you can join the project and discuss matters related to book articles. To use this banner, please refer to the documentation. For guidelines on this template's usage, see its documentation.BooksWikipedia:WikiProject BooksTemplate:WikiProject BooksBook articles NA This article has been rated as NA-Class on the project's quality scale.

Example 2: Full

{{WikiProject Books
|class  = NA
|needs-infobox = yes
|needs-infobox-cover = yes
|listas = Presley, Elvis
}}

or

{{WikiProject Books|class=NA|needs-infobox=yes|needs-infobox-cover=yes|listas=Presley, Elvis}}

WikiProject Books

(Rated NA-class)

This template is within the scope of WikiProject Books. To participate in the project, please visit its page, where you can join the project and discuss matters related to book articles. To use this banner, please refer to the documentation. For guidelines on this template's usage, see its documentation.BooksWikipedia:WikiProject BooksTemplate:WikiProject BooksBook articles NA This article has been rated as NA-Class on the project's quality scale.   This article has been marked as needing an infobox. It is requested that a picture or pictures be included in this article to improve its quality.

See also

• {{ Reading}}