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This template has Chinese edition so please add [[zh:Template:WPBiography]] to the template.-- RekishiEJ ( talk) 18:40, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: Moved by David Fuchs ( talk · contribs). Jafeluv ( talk) 09:22, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
Template:WPBiography → Template:WikiProject Biography — Per the de facto naming convention used by almost all other WikiProject Banners. Standardisation here will bring consistancy, clarity and improved readability. Template name would also match the WikiProject name. PC78 ( talk) 00:17, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
{{WPBiography|living=no|class=c|priority=mid|s&a-work-group=yes|listas=Stephenson, George}} {{WikiProjectTrains|class=C|importance=high|UK=yes|UK-importance=Top|Scotland=yes|Scotland-importance=Top}} {{WPNEE|class=c|importance=high}}
compared with
{{WikiProject Biography|living=no|class=c|priority=mid|s&a-work-group=yes|listas=Stephenson, George}} {{WikiProject Trains|class=C|importance=high|UK=yes|UK-importance=Top|Scotland=yes|Scotland-importance=Top}} {{WikiProject North East England|class=c|importance=high}}
{{
WPBiography}}
is used on significantly more than 15,000 pages (it's presently no. 49 on
Wikipedia:Database reports/Templates transcluded on the most pages, with 874,715 transclusions), so I imagine that the server load will be considerably greater, so we really do need a broad approval. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 21:01, 6 November 2010 (UTC)
{{
WPBannerMeta}}
was chosen specifically so that it would not follow any of the formats which were in existence at the time, especially "WikiProject Foo". WPBM is not a banner, it is a meta-template for creating banners; as such it is not in the banner namespace so that it would not conflict with, or be confused with, the banner for
Wikipedia:WikiProject Meta or
Wikipedia:WikiProject Banner Meta, if by some (admittedly remote) chance such a project were to be created. The ideal name would have been
Template:WikiProject, but alas that was already in use; you could argue a case for usurpation there if you liked.
Happy‑
melon 23:08, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
Category:Biography articles with more than one work group needing priority parameter replacement seems to contain pages that are only in one work group but have |activepol=
on them. Example was
Talk:Nessa Childers but probably I fixed it for the particular case. --
Magioladitis (
talk) 20:11, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
I propose that the hyphen be removed from between "recently" and "appearing", for this template to conform to the guideline at
WP:HYPHEN, sub-subsection 3, point 4. (I am adding this template and its talk page to my watchlist, and I will watch here for a reply or replies.)
—
Wavelength (
talk) 20:28, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
|needs-persondata=
in {{
WikiProject Rugby union}} and not in {{
WikiProject Biography}}. I suggest we move it to the latter for consistency. In the past, we did the same for some pages having |living=
in other templates.|needs-persondata=
is needed anymore. --
Magioladitis (
talk) 11:22, 30 November 2010 (UTC)I suggest that we do the same for {{ WikiProject Politics of the United Kingdom}}. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 14:52, 11 December 2010 (UTC)
I cleaned ~10% of the pages having |needs-infoboxes=
(i.e. more than 3,000 pages cleaned). I guess, if we stanrardisie the Infoboxed more I'll be able to remove more out-dated requests. Any suggestions of how to clean everything more efficiently are welcome. --
Magioladitis (
talk) 19:39, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
{{
edit requested}}
If needs-photo=yes is set and baronets-work-group=yes is set the article talk page is added to Wikipedia requested photographs of peers, which is correct, but is also added to Wikipedia requested photographs of people, which is not correct. See example
Talk:Andrew Feldman, Baron Feldman of Elstree. Most other task-forces correctly add only to the specific sub-group, for example
Talk:Robert Balchin, Baron Lingfield --
Traveler100 (
talk) 12:16, 31 December 2010 (UTC)
The following appears at the beginning of the template:
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography, a collaborative effort to create, develop and organize Wikipedia's articles about people....
This is grammatically incorrect; it should say, "This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography, a collaborative effort to create, to develop and to organize Wikipedia's articles about people...." What do you guys think? — Preceding unsigned comment added by MathMaven ( talk • contribs) 21:16, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
All interested editors are invited to join the project; all interested editors contribute to the discussion.
Is there any possible chance we could somehow shorten the small-font non-free images reminder that accompanies needs-photo=yes
on BLPs? I really dislike how it disproportionately enlarges the template. --
œ
™ 16:49, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
I change the basic usage from horizontal
to vertical
for both living and not living. They now fit on the screen better.
I also change the incorrect definition of the sort value for {para|listas}}. It did not seem a big enough deal to require permission first. JimCubb ( talk) 21:57, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
Kretschmann then moved to Malaysia in the summer to shot his scenes for the German I think the contributor meant to type 'shoot' — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.77.57.116 ( talk) 18:42, 5 July 2011 (UTC)
I'm an old guy not good with computer stuff, so I'll leave the editing to somebody else, but the page gives his age as both 79 and 96. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.209.171.179 ( talk) 04:00, 26 August 2011 (UTC)
How should the living parameter be set for list articles (and what articles should be marked with this template if they're list articles)? If everyone on the list is deceased, I would presume "no", but what about other cases? I'm guessing "yes" if any member of the list is still living? Or "no" but mark "blpo=yes" if any member of the list is still living? In some cases, it will be somewhat impractical to go through the list regularly and check to see if all are living - perhaps something could eventually be done like putting a notation of the latest birthdate and automatically assuming "no" if that's more than 125 years ago? Or a bot to regularly check the entries for each person in the list? Thanks! Allens ( talk) 20:43, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
As well as placement in the Category:Biography articles without living parameter, could something be done to cause a message and a graphical "red flag"/similar to show up in the template itself, to encourage people to go ahead and correct this? (That category is currently backlogged badly - I'm working on it when I have time.) The message should perhaps include some sub-portion of the BLP template text, to try to ward off libel/slander suits vs Wikipedia. (This is particularly acute regarding US law for relatively obscure people who are likely considered not " public figures" - these are also the ones most likely not to have been properly labeled as "living=yes", might not be in the "living people" category, etc...) Thanks! Allens ( talk) 21:06, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
As an example the article Viet and Duc Nguyen is about a pair of conjoined twins. Viet is now dead but Duc still lives. Should we put living=yes, living=no or do we need another parameter ? Racklever ( talk) 10:08, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
This article must adhere to the biographies of living persons (BLP) policy, even if it is not a biography, because it contains material about living persons. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libellous. If such material is repeatedly inserted, or if you have other concerns, please report the issue to this noticeboard.If you are a subject of this article, or acting on behalf of one, and you need help, please see this help page. |
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I'm wondering if it would simplify things if we had just the one parameter for each workgroup, instead of the current two. For example, instead of sports-work-group=yes|sports-priority=Mid we could have (for example) sports-priority=Mid (alternatively, sports-work-group=Mid). Whichever parameter was chosen, the other could be phased out. Any non-blank value for the parameter chosen could automatically add the article into the relevant work group, and if it were a valid priority value it would also add it into the relevant priority category. I've seen something similar done for other templates, for example Template:WikiProject Football, where an article can be categorised into a task force and given an importance value for that task force, all using a single parameter. -- Jameboy ( talk) 14:36, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
Proposal: For needs-photo=yes
emit "a photograph or picture", but for needs-photo=more
, emit "more photographs or pictures". --
Lexein (
talk) 22:20, 6 September 2012 (UTC)
Is there no religion work group in which to add religious figures (e.g. priests, bishops)? Very surprised by this. -- Jameboy ( talk) 05:53, 18 September 2012 (UTC)
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I added the sports and games portal to the Sports and games work group to the template in the sandbox. Please implement. Kumioko ( talk) 23:52, 11 October 2012 (UTC)
There seems to be a general rule that categories named after people (ie Category:Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) are not themselves placed in any categories, other than hidden categories, including the category structure known as Category:Eponymous categories. I understand that one of the reasons for this is that not every article in a person's category is about that person (ie their history, beliefs, etc), but includes articles about people associated with them, their biographers, their hometown, etc. I do know that this practice of not including eponymous categories in the regular category tree is not universally cleaved to. City categories are often placed in the category for their state. I want to know if it is official WP policy to not allow eponymous categories to be placed in larger categories, and if so, what steps are being taken to stop all such activity. I sympathize with the problem here, but i feel that such eponymous categories should just be placed in the regular category tree, despite this discrepancy. if i am in the minority, so be it, but i cant determine what we are doing. any directions to policy would be appreciated. Mercurywoodrose ( talk) 06:19, 16 December 2012 (UTC)
Question about a few of the cases where the template puts pages into this category. I'm working on clearing the Category and while a page like User talk:Geo Swan/Guantanamo/Rick Schieke belongs in the category, I'm a little more hesitant about a page like Wikipedia talk:Article Incubator/Cassie Sumner or Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Jorge Manuel Miranda Dias. However the ones that have me really confused are ones like Talk:Nitrozac. I finally figured out that the template objects to being placed on the talk page for a redirect, Nitrozac redirects to The Joy of Tech.
I'm willing to fix all of these, but what should I use for the explanation for the changes on pages like Talk:Nitrozac? Naraht ( talk) 15:09, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
Now is a red link. Could someone set to Portal:Sport. -- Kasper2006 ( talk) 20:02, 21 January 2013 (UTC)
There is a module (
Module:SortName) which attempts to create a sortable name out of a page's title for use in this template's |listas=
parameter. If this code were added to the doc page—{{subst:#invoke:SortName|sortname}}
—then people copy/pasting the template code would get the |listas=
parameter filled in automatically. From the pages on which this template is transcluded, the module looks like it would output a good sortable name on about 90–95% of the articles. You can see various outputs on the module's
testcases page. The other 5–10% of articles may take a human understanding of the subject, although the module may be refined further with input from others. —
Bility (
talk) 22:18, 15 April 2013 (UTC)
I'm in the early stages of developing a Lua-based replacement for {{ WPBannerMeta}}, and I would appreciate peoples ideas for features. If there is anything that you have wanted to do with your WikiProject template, but haven't been able to due to limitations in the meta-template, I would be very interested to hear it. The discussion is over at Template talk:WPBannerMeta. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 12:23, 18 June 2013 (UTC)
The person icon for this template has remained the same since its creation in 2006 ( File:Crystal personal.svg - a faceless, peach-skinned, presumably male person in a tie). I'd like to change the icon to reflect a different skin tone, gender, or style of dress. Perhaps we can have a woman of color icon for a while. Commons has a number of other icons in Category:People_icons or a new icon could be created. Just as an example, I think the lower image on the right ( File:Etno icon.png) demonstrates how this icon could be more worldly and inclusive of different genders/ethnicities. Gobōnobō + c 19:01, 19 September 2013 (UTC)
List-class/template class should mean that no error ( Category:Biography_articles_without_living_parameter) is shown for not having a living parameter. User:GKFX talk 17:51, 22 May 2014 (UTC)
See the discussion here. RockMagnetist ( talk) 05:26, 1 June 2014 (UTC)
hello, im newbie here — Preceding unsigned comment added by 37.115.184.17 ( talk) 21:00, 6 June 2014 (UTC)
Hello,
could somebody please assess
Frank Riethmuller, as I am not really familiar with the assessment criteria (as soon as an article obviously is better than start) - is this a C, B or perhaps even A-class article?
Best wishes,
Anna reg (
talk) 11:12, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
Should the Biography template be adjusted to include the "bdp=" parameter? Lord Sjones23 ( talk - contributions) 20:18, 20 August 2014 (UTC)
What do you (or anyone) see as the benefit of announcing that? The BLP banner says, in effect, "we must be especially careful with fairness and sourcing on this article." A "BLP doesn't apply" banner would say, in effect, "we can be less careful with fairness and sourcing on this article." I suppose that is true, in a sense, but I don't see much value to emphasizing the fact. Newyorkbrad ( talk) 00:58, 27 August 2014 (UTC)
I am neutral on this subject - I can see Aoidh's point but I am also sympathetic to Racklever's suggestion about changing the wording. Can someone who is against BDP clarify what the downside of adding a BDP parameter would be, other than the fact that it may be somewhat redundant? It seems to me that disambiguating between different categories of BLPO is not necessarily a bad thing, we can always just have the BDP flag transclude BLPO for now, and if in the future we decide that we want further disambiguation, the pages where BDP applies will already be appropriately tagged. 0x0077BE [ talk/ contrib] 14:18, 3 September 2014 (UTC)
On Talk:Mary_Hallock-Greenewalt, I have this:
but, only "This template is supported by WikiProject Musicians" displays.
When I remove
then "This template is supported by the arts and entertainment work group" displays.
Is this a bug? Any suggestions or work-arounds so it will display both?
Peaceray ( talk) 20:46, 7 December 2014 (UTC)
|filmbio-work-group=yes
or |musician-work-group=yes
is present, |a&e-work-group=
and |a&e-priority=
are ignored. There are several threads on the matter in the archives, the earliest is
Template talk:WikiProject Biography/Archive 2#musicians override arts and entertainment? and the latest
Template talk:WikiProject Biography/Archive 5#Workgroups are mutually exclusive?. It's covered by the first bullet at
Template:WikiProject Biography#Work groups, although it doesn't actually say that they're mutually exclusive. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 23:47, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
|filmbio-work-group=yes
& |musician-work-group=yes
over |a&e-work-group
is not spelled out at
Template:WikiProject Biography#Work groups. It just says that if the article is about an actor or filmmaker, to use those work groups instead. I cannot agree that being a musician or a filmmaker disqualifies one as an artist, at least as far as work groups are concerned. I just heard Joni Mitchell on the radio today saying that she considers herself a painter who does music, & Jean Cocteau & Man Ray did both art & film. I don't agree, but at least I now understand the situation.#ifexpr
code in the template, it looks like the only workgroup that is overidden is the arts and entertainment work group if either the filmbio-work-group or the musician-work-group (or both) equals yes. I will add something to the documentation to note that when I get a chance.|a&e-work-group=
changed needs a discussion involving many more than two of us, considering that it was set up that way several years ago. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 00:31, 10 December 2014 (UTC)Persondata has been deprecated by this RfC, in favour of Wikidata. The related parameter should now be removed from this template. I've already proposed the category that that sets for deletion. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:45, 1 June 2015 (UTC)
I have a few questions questions:
|class=
parameter indicates the quality of the article, not the number of subtopics. Only the values shown in the first column of
this table are valid; for regular articles they are fa/a/ga/b/c/start/stub (note that if the page is in mainspace but is not a true article, the special values |class=fl
|class=list
or |class=dab
may be used).|living=no
. If any one or more of them are still alive, |living=yes
.This profile is missing out one of the most important elements of this director's career - his theatre direction. Also someone keeps on changing essential pieces of information. There is also inaccurate information. regards Chris Pender — Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.237.121.36 ( talk) 13:32, 12 August 2015 (UTC)
{{
WikiProject Biography}}
. Please make your comments at
Talk:Robert Chuter. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 15:19, 12 August 2015 (UTC)There is a discussion at WT:WPBM#Very commendable guideline being virtually ignored about whether banner templates (particularly this one) should use the word "priority" rather than "importance" to describe articles. Please contribute over there. — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 10:52, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
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Since the Free Image Search Tool has moved to Labs, could someone please update this template to change the link from http://toolserver.org/~magnus/fist.php...
to https://tools.wmflabs.org/fist/fist.php...
? I have made the proposed change in
the sandbox. Thanks!
GoingBatty (
talk) 02:35, 30 August 2015 (UTC)
I shall preface this by saying I am not remotely technically inclined; however, we are beginning a new WikiProject and as part of it, it has been suggested that we have a |woman=yes
/|women=yes
implemented in {{
WP Biography}}. I have no idea what to do exactly, and was advised here
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Women#Roadmap to ask
Template talk:WPBannerMeta, but they suggested that I ask you.
Template talk:WPBannerMeta#women banner. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
SusunW (
talk) 22:30, 12 September 2015 (UTC)
{{
WikiProject Biography}}
is not difficult (
here are four that I did a few months ago at {{
WikiProject Brazil}}
); but WikiProject Biography has a huge scope - possibly the biggest of all the WikiProjects - so the impact could be great (it could affect half of the 1.3 million articles using this banner); therefore, before proceeding, we need to know that there is consensus for the addition. We can then discuss details. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 23:14, 12 September 2015 (UTC)
Is it possible to break out Category:NA-Class biography articles with the addition of classes for Drafts, files, and redirects? Eliminating redirects from there would clean that category up. The files listed are largely signatures I think. It would be really helpful to have Category:Draft-Class biography articles to put sandbox and userspace drafts to check potential biographies for BLP issues or other things. -- Ricky81682 ( talk) 00:26, 12 August 2015 (UTC)
|draft=yes
|file=yes
|redirect=yes
Well, no takers at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Biography#NA-class_articles. Maybe an RFC or something more to get an idea on whether there's supporters? -- Ricky81682 ( talk) 20:20, 31 August 2015 (UTC)
This template is used on the talk pages of hundreds of articles like Baron Norton or even List of people on the postage stamps of Portugal that are not about individuals. If we are going to use it that way, then the "living" parameter probably needs to have a "not an individual" or "not applicable" option; as it stands, these pages end up inappropriately in Category:Biography articles without living parameter. - Jmabel | Talk 04:12, 13 November 2015 (UTC)
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As part of a nearly-completed shift to distinguish requests for photos from requests for images in general, it is requested that this template be modified to place talk pages in "Wikipedia requested images of..." categories, rather than the old "Wikipedia requested photographs of..." categories. As such, please supplement all references to "photo(s) of..." and "photograph(s) of..." with "image(s) of..." in both the template and its documentation, while maintaining backwards compatibility for the old "photo" parameters. In particular, change "photograph or picture" to simply "image". Note that the "Wikipedia requested images of..." categories have already been created. Thank you! — s w p b T 15:22, 7 December 2015 (UTC)
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I have added a great deal to the entry on Franklin Rhoda based on extensive research including old diaries in my personal possession. Franklin Rhoda is my Great Grandfather. In recently updating my family tree and reading Franklin Rhoda's diaries I thought there should be an entry in Wikipedia for him. I went to Wikipedia and found that there was already an entry. But this entry was essentially limited to his work during three summers as a topographer in the Rockies. Given that he accomplished a great deal during the other part of his life, I decided to amend the entry drawing heavily on research of others especially historian Dr. Mike Foster who published many articles about Franklin Rhoda. But as Franklin's Great Grandson I admit that I must be biased. I welcome the edits, corrections, deletions and other input on the current entry on Franklin Rhoda. Thank you.
Rhodarick ( talk) 15:03, 28 July 2017 (UTC) Richard Rhoda PhD Rhodarick ( talk) 15:03, 28 July 2017 (UTC)
My name is John Truscott. I am English and trained as an actor at the Central School of Speech and Drama, London. I acted in two films: The Spy Who Loved Me and Taxandria. I notice that in your biography of John Truscott the Australian designer you have attributed my filmography to him. This is distressing to me. Please note that Taxandria was made in 1994, the year after the designer John Truscott died. Will you please alter your biography of the designer? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jaytruscott ( talk • contribs) 11:29, 15 November 2017 (UTC)
There are a lot of Televisions directors and TV hosts. I can't use the WikiProject film, cause they don't work in the cinema industry. ~~ CherryPie94 🍒🥧 ( talk) 00:05, 1 June 2018 (UTC)
|a&e-work-group=
with |a&e-priority=
. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 16:43, 1 June 2018 (UTC)Currently the template for
List of Grateful Dead members has |listas=List of Grateful Dead members
. Should this, and the hundreds of other similar cases, be re-arranged as such: |listas=Grateful Dead members, List of
? --
LukeSurl
t
c 14:00, 22 August 2018 (UTC)
Your feedback would be appreciated at Talk:Adrienne Rich#Merge discussion. Thanks, Mathglot ( talk) 19:07, 16 May 2019 (UTC)
Bad JSON format. You can cancel this operation so you can correct it, delete the current
<templatedata>
tags and try again, or continue to replace the current TemplateData with a new one.
@
Christian75, I'm getting the above error when I attempt to edit TemplateData via the edit page button. Do you want to try to resolve the error rather than reverting the changes you made in late May? (not
watching, please {{
ping}}
as needed)
czar 09:52, 9 June 2019 (UTC)
Hello. I've noticed that Category:Old requests for Biography peer review has been deleted since 2011, but still part of the Template:WikiProject Biography per the |old-peer-review= switch. Is there a reason for this inconsistency? Thanks! -- MrLinkinPark333 ( talk) 17:23, 3 August 2019 (UTC)
{{
possibly empty category}}
. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 18:33, 3 August 2019 (UTC)Category:User-Class biography articles is showing up in the Special:WantedCategories backlog because User:Auric has tagged a couple of articles such as User talk:Geo Swan/Abdul Hafiz (Guantanamo captive 1030) as "User" class after they were moved to user space. Per WP: REDNOT Auric should not have made an edit that left a page with red links to a category, but per WP:USERNOCAT this template shouldn't be creating categories when it's in user space anyway. I don't know how often bio articles get moved to user pages, but would it be worth doing some user space detection that disables categories on user pages? Le Deluge ( talk) 12:56, 30 December 2019 (UTC)
We have had the same icon of the little white guy with a tie forever. I've tried to start a conversation about changing it before, but maybe it is best to just be bold. I'm not particularly attached to the cowboy-Inuit-geisha trio, so any suggestions would be welcome.
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Please change the value of IMAGE_LEFT from File:Crystal personal.svg to File:Etno icon.png and change the value of IMAGE_LEFT_LARGE to 80px. Thank you, gobonobo + c 09:06, 8 June 2020 (UTC)
{{
edit template-protected}}
template. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 20:08, 8 June 2020 (UTC)Template:WikiProject Musicians has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Redrose64 🌹 ( talk) 07:35, 27 July 2020 (UTC)
The link to the Free Image Search Tool generated by this template generates a 404 error. Is this something that can be fixed? Thanks! GoingBatty ( talk) 04:44, 28 July 2020 (UTC)
Can I ask, would it not be easier that instead of using "military-work-group" (for example) for the work group coding, we just use "military" or "sports" for ease of access and brevity? The C of E God Save the Queen! ( talk) 08:07, 14 September 2020 (UTC)
I'm not quite sure how or when it happened (an accidental side-effect of MSGJ's recent edits perhaps?), but this template is now putting hundreds of articles into deleted categories such as Category:Biography articles with incorrect peer review or A-Class tagging, Category:Requests for Biography peer review, Category:Successful requests for biography A-Class review and Category:Failed requests for biography A-Class review, which are showing up in the backlog at Special:WantedCategories. I assume this was not intended as the cats were deleted over a year ago, could somebody investigate? Le Deluge ( talk) 19:04, 25 November 2020 (UTC)
I propose to stop populating Category:Biography articles without listas parameter because the listas parameter can now be moved to the banner shell template so it is no longer required on this template — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 21:15, 18 May 2023 (UTC)
|listas=
on biographical articles? --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 17:59, 19 May 2023 (UTC)
The redirect Template:BIO has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2023 May 25 § Template:BIO until a consensus is reached. Estopedist1 ( talk) 05:47, 25 May 2023 (UTC)
The redirect Template:Bio has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2023 May 25 § Template:Bio until a consensus is reached. Estopedist1 ( talk) 16:19, 25 May 2023 (UTC)
Can this be set to auto-collapse, or at least have an option to collapse to hide the numerous projects? Having a massive block of projects listed at the top (some of which are only of tangential connection to the subject) is time consuming and tiresome. Some are the entire height of a screen on a desktop, and it's just annoying. I've tried what seem like they might be logical (hide=, collapse(d)=, etc) but nothing obvious seems to work. - SchroCat ( talk) 19:50, 14 November 2023 (UTC)
{{
WikiProject banner shell}}
is probably what you want. —
SMcCandlish
☏
¢ 😼 20:06, 14 November 2023 (UTC)
This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Archive 1 | ← | Archive 4 | Archive 5 | Archive 6 |
This template has Chinese edition so please add [[zh:Template:WPBiography]] to the template.-- RekishiEJ ( talk) 18:40, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: Moved by David Fuchs ( talk · contribs). Jafeluv ( talk) 09:22, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
Template:WPBiography → Template:WikiProject Biography — Per the de facto naming convention used by almost all other WikiProject Banners. Standardisation here will bring consistancy, clarity and improved readability. Template name would also match the WikiProject name. PC78 ( talk) 00:17, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
{{WPBiography|living=no|class=c|priority=mid|s&a-work-group=yes|listas=Stephenson, George}} {{WikiProjectTrains|class=C|importance=high|UK=yes|UK-importance=Top|Scotland=yes|Scotland-importance=Top}} {{WPNEE|class=c|importance=high}}
compared with
{{WikiProject Biography|living=no|class=c|priority=mid|s&a-work-group=yes|listas=Stephenson, George}} {{WikiProject Trains|class=C|importance=high|UK=yes|UK-importance=Top|Scotland=yes|Scotland-importance=Top}} {{WikiProject North East England|class=c|importance=high}}
{{
WPBiography}}
is used on significantly more than 15,000 pages (it's presently no. 49 on
Wikipedia:Database reports/Templates transcluded on the most pages, with 874,715 transclusions), so I imagine that the server load will be considerably greater, so we really do need a broad approval. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 21:01, 6 November 2010 (UTC)
{{
WPBannerMeta}}
was chosen specifically so that it would not follow any of the formats which were in existence at the time, especially "WikiProject Foo". WPBM is not a banner, it is a meta-template for creating banners; as such it is not in the banner namespace so that it would not conflict with, or be confused with, the banner for
Wikipedia:WikiProject Meta or
Wikipedia:WikiProject Banner Meta, if by some (admittedly remote) chance such a project were to be created. The ideal name would have been
Template:WikiProject, but alas that was already in use; you could argue a case for usurpation there if you liked.
Happy‑
melon 23:08, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
Category:Biography articles with more than one work group needing priority parameter replacement seems to contain pages that are only in one work group but have |activepol=
on them. Example was
Talk:Nessa Childers but probably I fixed it for the particular case. --
Magioladitis (
talk) 20:11, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
I propose that the hyphen be removed from between "recently" and "appearing", for this template to conform to the guideline at
WP:HYPHEN, sub-subsection 3, point 4. (I am adding this template and its talk page to my watchlist, and I will watch here for a reply or replies.)
—
Wavelength (
talk) 20:28, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
|needs-persondata=
in {{
WikiProject Rugby union}} and not in {{
WikiProject Biography}}. I suggest we move it to the latter for consistency. In the past, we did the same for some pages having |living=
in other templates.|needs-persondata=
is needed anymore. --
Magioladitis (
talk) 11:22, 30 November 2010 (UTC)I suggest that we do the same for {{ WikiProject Politics of the United Kingdom}}. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 14:52, 11 December 2010 (UTC)
I cleaned ~10% of the pages having |needs-infoboxes=
(i.e. more than 3,000 pages cleaned). I guess, if we stanrardisie the Infoboxed more I'll be able to remove more out-dated requests. Any suggestions of how to clean everything more efficiently are welcome. --
Magioladitis (
talk) 19:39, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
{{
edit requested}}
If needs-photo=yes is set and baronets-work-group=yes is set the article talk page is added to Wikipedia requested photographs of peers, which is correct, but is also added to Wikipedia requested photographs of people, which is not correct. See example
Talk:Andrew Feldman, Baron Feldman of Elstree. Most other task-forces correctly add only to the specific sub-group, for example
Talk:Robert Balchin, Baron Lingfield --
Traveler100 (
talk) 12:16, 31 December 2010 (UTC)
The following appears at the beginning of the template:
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography, a collaborative effort to create, develop and organize Wikipedia's articles about people....
This is grammatically incorrect; it should say, "This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography, a collaborative effort to create, to develop and to organize Wikipedia's articles about people...." What do you guys think? — Preceding unsigned comment added by MathMaven ( talk • contribs) 21:16, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
All interested editors are invited to join the project; all interested editors contribute to the discussion.
Is there any possible chance we could somehow shorten the small-font non-free images reminder that accompanies needs-photo=yes
on BLPs? I really dislike how it disproportionately enlarges the template. --
œ
™ 16:49, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
I change the basic usage from horizontal
to vertical
for both living and not living. They now fit on the screen better.
I also change the incorrect definition of the sort value for {para|listas}}. It did not seem a big enough deal to require permission first. JimCubb ( talk) 21:57, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
Kretschmann then moved to Malaysia in the summer to shot his scenes for the German I think the contributor meant to type 'shoot' — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.77.57.116 ( talk) 18:42, 5 July 2011 (UTC)
I'm an old guy not good with computer stuff, so I'll leave the editing to somebody else, but the page gives his age as both 79 and 96. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.209.171.179 ( talk) 04:00, 26 August 2011 (UTC)
How should the living parameter be set for list articles (and what articles should be marked with this template if they're list articles)? If everyone on the list is deceased, I would presume "no", but what about other cases? I'm guessing "yes" if any member of the list is still living? Or "no" but mark "blpo=yes" if any member of the list is still living? In some cases, it will be somewhat impractical to go through the list regularly and check to see if all are living - perhaps something could eventually be done like putting a notation of the latest birthdate and automatically assuming "no" if that's more than 125 years ago? Or a bot to regularly check the entries for each person in the list? Thanks! Allens ( talk) 20:43, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
As well as placement in the Category:Biography articles without living parameter, could something be done to cause a message and a graphical "red flag"/similar to show up in the template itself, to encourage people to go ahead and correct this? (That category is currently backlogged badly - I'm working on it when I have time.) The message should perhaps include some sub-portion of the BLP template text, to try to ward off libel/slander suits vs Wikipedia. (This is particularly acute regarding US law for relatively obscure people who are likely considered not " public figures" - these are also the ones most likely not to have been properly labeled as "living=yes", might not be in the "living people" category, etc...) Thanks! Allens ( talk) 21:06, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
As an example the article Viet and Duc Nguyen is about a pair of conjoined twins. Viet is now dead but Duc still lives. Should we put living=yes, living=no or do we need another parameter ? Racklever ( talk) 10:08, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
This article must adhere to the biographies of living persons (BLP) policy, even if it is not a biography, because it contains material about living persons. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libellous. If such material is repeatedly inserted, or if you have other concerns, please report the issue to this noticeboard.If you are a subject of this article, or acting on behalf of one, and you need help, please see this help page. |
Biography Template‑class | |||||||
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I'm wondering if it would simplify things if we had just the one parameter for each workgroup, instead of the current two. For example, instead of sports-work-group=yes|sports-priority=Mid we could have (for example) sports-priority=Mid (alternatively, sports-work-group=Mid). Whichever parameter was chosen, the other could be phased out. Any non-blank value for the parameter chosen could automatically add the article into the relevant work group, and if it were a valid priority value it would also add it into the relevant priority category. I've seen something similar done for other templates, for example Template:WikiProject Football, where an article can be categorised into a task force and given an importance value for that task force, all using a single parameter. -- Jameboy ( talk) 14:36, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
Proposal: For needs-photo=yes
emit "a photograph or picture", but for needs-photo=more
, emit "more photographs or pictures". --
Lexein (
talk) 22:20, 6 September 2012 (UTC)
Is there no religion work group in which to add religious figures (e.g. priests, bishops)? Very surprised by this. -- Jameboy ( talk) 05:53, 18 September 2012 (UTC)
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I added the sports and games portal to the Sports and games work group to the template in the sandbox. Please implement. Kumioko ( talk) 23:52, 11 October 2012 (UTC)
There seems to be a general rule that categories named after people (ie Category:Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) are not themselves placed in any categories, other than hidden categories, including the category structure known as Category:Eponymous categories. I understand that one of the reasons for this is that not every article in a person's category is about that person (ie their history, beliefs, etc), but includes articles about people associated with them, their biographers, their hometown, etc. I do know that this practice of not including eponymous categories in the regular category tree is not universally cleaved to. City categories are often placed in the category for their state. I want to know if it is official WP policy to not allow eponymous categories to be placed in larger categories, and if so, what steps are being taken to stop all such activity. I sympathize with the problem here, but i feel that such eponymous categories should just be placed in the regular category tree, despite this discrepancy. if i am in the minority, so be it, but i cant determine what we are doing. any directions to policy would be appreciated. Mercurywoodrose ( talk) 06:19, 16 December 2012 (UTC)
Question about a few of the cases where the template puts pages into this category. I'm working on clearing the Category and while a page like User talk:Geo Swan/Guantanamo/Rick Schieke belongs in the category, I'm a little more hesitant about a page like Wikipedia talk:Article Incubator/Cassie Sumner or Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Jorge Manuel Miranda Dias. However the ones that have me really confused are ones like Talk:Nitrozac. I finally figured out that the template objects to being placed on the talk page for a redirect, Nitrozac redirects to The Joy of Tech.
I'm willing to fix all of these, but what should I use for the explanation for the changes on pages like Talk:Nitrozac? Naraht ( talk) 15:09, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
Now is a red link. Could someone set to Portal:Sport. -- Kasper2006 ( talk) 20:02, 21 January 2013 (UTC)
There is a module (
Module:SortName) which attempts to create a sortable name out of a page's title for use in this template's |listas=
parameter. If this code were added to the doc page—{{subst:#invoke:SortName|sortname}}
—then people copy/pasting the template code would get the |listas=
parameter filled in automatically. From the pages on which this template is transcluded, the module looks like it would output a good sortable name on about 90–95% of the articles. You can see various outputs on the module's
testcases page. The other 5–10% of articles may take a human understanding of the subject, although the module may be refined further with input from others. —
Bility (
talk) 22:18, 15 April 2013 (UTC)
I'm in the early stages of developing a Lua-based replacement for {{ WPBannerMeta}}, and I would appreciate peoples ideas for features. If there is anything that you have wanted to do with your WikiProject template, but haven't been able to due to limitations in the meta-template, I would be very interested to hear it. The discussion is over at Template talk:WPBannerMeta. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 12:23, 18 June 2013 (UTC)
The person icon for this template has remained the same since its creation in 2006 ( File:Crystal personal.svg - a faceless, peach-skinned, presumably male person in a tie). I'd like to change the icon to reflect a different skin tone, gender, or style of dress. Perhaps we can have a woman of color icon for a while. Commons has a number of other icons in Category:People_icons or a new icon could be created. Just as an example, I think the lower image on the right ( File:Etno icon.png) demonstrates how this icon could be more worldly and inclusive of different genders/ethnicities. Gobōnobō + c 19:01, 19 September 2013 (UTC)
List-class/template class should mean that no error ( Category:Biography_articles_without_living_parameter) is shown for not having a living parameter. User:GKFX talk 17:51, 22 May 2014 (UTC)
See the discussion here. RockMagnetist ( talk) 05:26, 1 June 2014 (UTC)
hello, im newbie here — Preceding unsigned comment added by 37.115.184.17 ( talk) 21:00, 6 June 2014 (UTC)
Hello,
could somebody please assess
Frank Riethmuller, as I am not really familiar with the assessment criteria (as soon as an article obviously is better than start) - is this a C, B or perhaps even A-class article?
Best wishes,
Anna reg (
talk) 11:12, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
Should the Biography template be adjusted to include the "bdp=" parameter? Lord Sjones23 ( talk - contributions) 20:18, 20 August 2014 (UTC)
What do you (or anyone) see as the benefit of announcing that? The BLP banner says, in effect, "we must be especially careful with fairness and sourcing on this article." A "BLP doesn't apply" banner would say, in effect, "we can be less careful with fairness and sourcing on this article." I suppose that is true, in a sense, but I don't see much value to emphasizing the fact. Newyorkbrad ( talk) 00:58, 27 August 2014 (UTC)
I am neutral on this subject - I can see Aoidh's point but I am also sympathetic to Racklever's suggestion about changing the wording. Can someone who is against BDP clarify what the downside of adding a BDP parameter would be, other than the fact that it may be somewhat redundant? It seems to me that disambiguating between different categories of BLPO is not necessarily a bad thing, we can always just have the BDP flag transclude BLPO for now, and if in the future we decide that we want further disambiguation, the pages where BDP applies will already be appropriately tagged. 0x0077BE [ talk/ contrib] 14:18, 3 September 2014 (UTC)
On Talk:Mary_Hallock-Greenewalt, I have this:
but, only "This template is supported by WikiProject Musicians" displays.
When I remove
then "This template is supported by the arts and entertainment work group" displays.
Is this a bug? Any suggestions or work-arounds so it will display both?
Peaceray ( talk) 20:46, 7 December 2014 (UTC)
|filmbio-work-group=yes
or |musician-work-group=yes
is present, |a&e-work-group=
and |a&e-priority=
are ignored. There are several threads on the matter in the archives, the earliest is
Template talk:WikiProject Biography/Archive 2#musicians override arts and entertainment? and the latest
Template talk:WikiProject Biography/Archive 5#Workgroups are mutually exclusive?. It's covered by the first bullet at
Template:WikiProject Biography#Work groups, although it doesn't actually say that they're mutually exclusive. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 23:47, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
|filmbio-work-group=yes
& |musician-work-group=yes
over |a&e-work-group
is not spelled out at
Template:WikiProject Biography#Work groups. It just says that if the article is about an actor or filmmaker, to use those work groups instead. I cannot agree that being a musician or a filmmaker disqualifies one as an artist, at least as far as work groups are concerned. I just heard Joni Mitchell on the radio today saying that she considers herself a painter who does music, & Jean Cocteau & Man Ray did both art & film. I don't agree, but at least I now understand the situation.#ifexpr
code in the template, it looks like the only workgroup that is overidden is the arts and entertainment work group if either the filmbio-work-group or the musician-work-group (or both) equals yes. I will add something to the documentation to note that when I get a chance.|a&e-work-group=
changed needs a discussion involving many more than two of us, considering that it was set up that way several years ago. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 00:31, 10 December 2014 (UTC)Persondata has been deprecated by this RfC, in favour of Wikidata. The related parameter should now be removed from this template. I've already proposed the category that that sets for deletion. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:45, 1 June 2015 (UTC)
I have a few questions questions:
|class=
parameter indicates the quality of the article, not the number of subtopics. Only the values shown in the first column of
this table are valid; for regular articles they are fa/a/ga/b/c/start/stub (note that if the page is in mainspace but is not a true article, the special values |class=fl
|class=list
or |class=dab
may be used).|living=no
. If any one or more of them are still alive, |living=yes
.This profile is missing out one of the most important elements of this director's career - his theatre direction. Also someone keeps on changing essential pieces of information. There is also inaccurate information. regards Chris Pender — Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.237.121.36 ( talk) 13:32, 12 August 2015 (UTC)
{{
WikiProject Biography}}
. Please make your comments at
Talk:Robert Chuter. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 15:19, 12 August 2015 (UTC)There is a discussion at WT:WPBM#Very commendable guideline being virtually ignored about whether banner templates (particularly this one) should use the word "priority" rather than "importance" to describe articles. Please contribute over there. — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 10:52, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
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Since the Free Image Search Tool has moved to Labs, could someone please update this template to change the link from http://toolserver.org/~magnus/fist.php...
to https://tools.wmflabs.org/fist/fist.php...
? I have made the proposed change in
the sandbox. Thanks!
GoingBatty (
talk) 02:35, 30 August 2015 (UTC)
I shall preface this by saying I am not remotely technically inclined; however, we are beginning a new WikiProject and as part of it, it has been suggested that we have a |woman=yes
/|women=yes
implemented in {{
WP Biography}}. I have no idea what to do exactly, and was advised here
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Women#Roadmap to ask
Template talk:WPBannerMeta, but they suggested that I ask you.
Template talk:WPBannerMeta#women banner. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
SusunW (
talk) 22:30, 12 September 2015 (UTC)
{{
WikiProject Biography}}
is not difficult (
here are four that I did a few months ago at {{
WikiProject Brazil}}
); but WikiProject Biography has a huge scope - possibly the biggest of all the WikiProjects - so the impact could be great (it could affect half of the 1.3 million articles using this banner); therefore, before proceeding, we need to know that there is consensus for the addition. We can then discuss details. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 23:14, 12 September 2015 (UTC)
Is it possible to break out Category:NA-Class biography articles with the addition of classes for Drafts, files, and redirects? Eliminating redirects from there would clean that category up. The files listed are largely signatures I think. It would be really helpful to have Category:Draft-Class biography articles to put sandbox and userspace drafts to check potential biographies for BLP issues or other things. -- Ricky81682 ( talk) 00:26, 12 August 2015 (UTC)
|draft=yes
|file=yes
|redirect=yes
Well, no takers at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Biography#NA-class_articles. Maybe an RFC or something more to get an idea on whether there's supporters? -- Ricky81682 ( talk) 20:20, 31 August 2015 (UTC)
This template is used on the talk pages of hundreds of articles like Baron Norton or even List of people on the postage stamps of Portugal that are not about individuals. If we are going to use it that way, then the "living" parameter probably needs to have a "not an individual" or "not applicable" option; as it stands, these pages end up inappropriately in Category:Biography articles without living parameter. - Jmabel | Talk 04:12, 13 November 2015 (UTC)
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As part of a nearly-completed shift to distinguish requests for photos from requests for images in general, it is requested that this template be modified to place talk pages in "Wikipedia requested images of..." categories, rather than the old "Wikipedia requested photographs of..." categories. As such, please supplement all references to "photo(s) of..." and "photograph(s) of..." with "image(s) of..." in both the template and its documentation, while maintaining backwards compatibility for the old "photo" parameters. In particular, change "photograph or picture" to simply "image". Note that the "Wikipedia requested images of..." categories have already been created. Thank you! — s w p b T 15:22, 7 December 2015 (UTC)
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I have added a great deal to the entry on Franklin Rhoda based on extensive research including old diaries in my personal possession. Franklin Rhoda is my Great Grandfather. In recently updating my family tree and reading Franklin Rhoda's diaries I thought there should be an entry in Wikipedia for him. I went to Wikipedia and found that there was already an entry. But this entry was essentially limited to his work during three summers as a topographer in the Rockies. Given that he accomplished a great deal during the other part of his life, I decided to amend the entry drawing heavily on research of others especially historian Dr. Mike Foster who published many articles about Franklin Rhoda. But as Franklin's Great Grandson I admit that I must be biased. I welcome the edits, corrections, deletions and other input on the current entry on Franklin Rhoda. Thank you.
Rhodarick ( talk) 15:03, 28 July 2017 (UTC) Richard Rhoda PhD Rhodarick ( talk) 15:03, 28 July 2017 (UTC)
My name is John Truscott. I am English and trained as an actor at the Central School of Speech and Drama, London. I acted in two films: The Spy Who Loved Me and Taxandria. I notice that in your biography of John Truscott the Australian designer you have attributed my filmography to him. This is distressing to me. Please note that Taxandria was made in 1994, the year after the designer John Truscott died. Will you please alter your biography of the designer? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jaytruscott ( talk • contribs) 11:29, 15 November 2017 (UTC)
There are a lot of Televisions directors and TV hosts. I can't use the WikiProject film, cause they don't work in the cinema industry. ~~ CherryPie94 🍒🥧 ( talk) 00:05, 1 June 2018 (UTC)
|a&e-work-group=
with |a&e-priority=
. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 16:43, 1 June 2018 (UTC)Currently the template for
List of Grateful Dead members has |listas=List of Grateful Dead members
. Should this, and the hundreds of other similar cases, be re-arranged as such: |listas=Grateful Dead members, List of
? --
LukeSurl
t
c 14:00, 22 August 2018 (UTC)
Your feedback would be appreciated at Talk:Adrienne Rich#Merge discussion. Thanks, Mathglot ( talk) 19:07, 16 May 2019 (UTC)
Bad JSON format. You can cancel this operation so you can correct it, delete the current
<templatedata>
tags and try again, or continue to replace the current TemplateData with a new one.
@
Christian75, I'm getting the above error when I attempt to edit TemplateData via the edit page button. Do you want to try to resolve the error rather than reverting the changes you made in late May? (not
watching, please {{
ping}}
as needed)
czar 09:52, 9 June 2019 (UTC)
Hello. I've noticed that Category:Old requests for Biography peer review has been deleted since 2011, but still part of the Template:WikiProject Biography per the |old-peer-review= switch. Is there a reason for this inconsistency? Thanks! -- MrLinkinPark333 ( talk) 17:23, 3 August 2019 (UTC)
{{
possibly empty category}}
. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 18:33, 3 August 2019 (UTC)Category:User-Class biography articles is showing up in the Special:WantedCategories backlog because User:Auric has tagged a couple of articles such as User talk:Geo Swan/Abdul Hafiz (Guantanamo captive 1030) as "User" class after they were moved to user space. Per WP: REDNOT Auric should not have made an edit that left a page with red links to a category, but per WP:USERNOCAT this template shouldn't be creating categories when it's in user space anyway. I don't know how often bio articles get moved to user pages, but would it be worth doing some user space detection that disables categories on user pages? Le Deluge ( talk) 12:56, 30 December 2019 (UTC)
We have had the same icon of the little white guy with a tie forever. I've tried to start a conversation about changing it before, but maybe it is best to just be bold. I'm not particularly attached to the cowboy-Inuit-geisha trio, so any suggestions would be welcome.
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Please change the value of IMAGE_LEFT from File:Crystal personal.svg to File:Etno icon.png and change the value of IMAGE_LEFT_LARGE to 80px. Thank you, gobonobo + c 09:06, 8 June 2020 (UTC)
{{
edit template-protected}}
template. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 20:08, 8 June 2020 (UTC)Template:WikiProject Musicians has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Redrose64 🌹 ( talk) 07:35, 27 July 2020 (UTC)
The link to the Free Image Search Tool generated by this template generates a 404 error. Is this something that can be fixed? Thanks! GoingBatty ( talk) 04:44, 28 July 2020 (UTC)
Can I ask, would it not be easier that instead of using "military-work-group" (for example) for the work group coding, we just use "military" or "sports" for ease of access and brevity? The C of E God Save the Queen! ( talk) 08:07, 14 September 2020 (UTC)
I'm not quite sure how or when it happened (an accidental side-effect of MSGJ's recent edits perhaps?), but this template is now putting hundreds of articles into deleted categories such as Category:Biography articles with incorrect peer review or A-Class tagging, Category:Requests for Biography peer review, Category:Successful requests for biography A-Class review and Category:Failed requests for biography A-Class review, which are showing up in the backlog at Special:WantedCategories. I assume this was not intended as the cats were deleted over a year ago, could somebody investigate? Le Deluge ( talk) 19:04, 25 November 2020 (UTC)
I propose to stop populating Category:Biography articles without listas parameter because the listas parameter can now be moved to the banner shell template so it is no longer required on this template — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 21:15, 18 May 2023 (UTC)
|listas=
on biographical articles? --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 17:59, 19 May 2023 (UTC)
The redirect Template:BIO has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2023 May 25 § Template:BIO until a consensus is reached. Estopedist1 ( talk) 05:47, 25 May 2023 (UTC)
The redirect Template:Bio has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2023 May 25 § Template:Bio until a consensus is reached. Estopedist1 ( talk) 16:19, 25 May 2023 (UTC)
Can this be set to auto-collapse, or at least have an option to collapse to hide the numerous projects? Having a massive block of projects listed at the top (some of which are only of tangential connection to the subject) is time consuming and tiresome. Some are the entire height of a screen on a desktop, and it's just annoying. I've tried what seem like they might be logical (hide=, collapse(d)=, etc) but nothing obvious seems to work. - SchroCat ( talk) 19:50, 14 November 2023 (UTC)
{{
WikiProject banner shell}}
is probably what you want. —
SMcCandlish
☏
¢ 😼 20:06, 14 November 2023 (UTC)