Template:Ethnic groups

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Zuni girl; photograph by Edward S. Curtis, 1903 This article falls within the scope of WikiProject Ethnic groups, a WikiProject interested in improving the encyclopaedic coverage and content of articles relating to ethnic groups, nationalities, and other cultural identities. If you would like to help out, you are welcome to drop by the project page and/or leave a query at the project's talk page.
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[edit] Template documentation
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This template employs intricate features of template syntax.
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This template is the project banner for WikiProject Ethnic groups, and is added to the talk pages of articles within the Project's scope.

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[edit] Small size option

Setting the parameter |small=yes creates a more compact, right-aligned version. See Talk:Popora people for an example.

[edit] Quality scale

The first table below gives a brief, one-sentence description of possible quality scale values. Before assigning any article to a class, please take a few moments and read the full description of the Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team's assessment system.

[Also see the Other Template Parameters, in the second table below.]

Each article may also be assigned to a particular class, intended as a point-in-time assessment of its overall "quality" - relative to the criteria given in the quality scale which is detailed below. Articles for which a valid class has not yet been provided are listed by default in Category:Unassessed Ethnic groups articles.

The following values may be used for the class parameter (they should be entered exactly as given):

Class parameter values (Category:Ethnic groups articles by quality)
Value Meaning Category
class=FA Articles which are currently Featured status articles FA-Class Ethnic groups articles
class=A A-class articles; A-Class Ethnic groups articles
class=GA Articles with a current Good article status GA-Class Ethnic groups articles
class=B B-class articles; B-Class Ethnic groups articles
class=Start Start-class articles; Start-Class Ethnic groups articles
class=Stub Stub-class articles; Stub-Class Ethnic groups articles
class=NA Not applicable; ie for miscellaneous pages such as disambiguation pages, which do not require an assessment Non-article Ethnic groups pages

[edit] Importance scale

Each article may also be assigned a particular importance; for ethnic groups, we make a ver simple use of this. Articles for which a valid importance has not yet been provided are listed by default in Category:Unassigned-importance Ethnic groups articles.

The following values may be used for the importance parameter (they should be entered exactly as given):

Class parameter values (Category:Ethnic groups articles by importance)
Value Meaning Category
importance=Top Major, broad articles like ethnic group, nation Top-importance Ethnic groups articles
importance=High All actual ethnic groups and similar entities and articles on the history of any ethnic group within a particular country or region High-importance Ethnic groups articles
importance=Mid Other articles that are likely to be of general interest (for example, an article about the theatrical traditions of a particular ethnic group) Mid-importance Ethnic groups articles
importance=Low Articles that are not about individual ethnic groups and are not likely to be of general interest (for example, a building that houses an ethnic organization); also miscellaneous pages such as disambiguation pages, which do not require an assessment Low-importance Ethnic groups articles

[edit] Other template parameters

Parameter Associated category Explanation Supported values
attention Cat:Ethnic groups articles needing attention Does this article need active attention (POV issues, badly organized, unreferenced)? attention=yes
The attention value should not appear in the template, if the article does not need attention.
reassess Cat:Ethnic groups articles needing reassessment Does this article need an independent reassessment or validation of its current rating? reassess=yes
The reassess value should not appear in the template, if the article does not need be reassessed.
merge Cat:Ethnic groups articles needing merge action Should we consider merging this into another article? merge=yes
The merge value should not appear in the template, if the article does not need to be merged.
needs-infobox Cat:Ethnic groups articles needing infoboxes Is it missing the {{Infobox Ethnic group}} template? needs-infobox=yes
The needs-infobox value should not appear in the template, if the article does not need an infobox.
dab Cat:Ethnic groups disambiguation pages Is this just a disambiguation page, not a proper article? dab=yes
The dab value should not appear in the template, if the article is not a disambiguation page. The class parameter should also be set to NA (class=NA)
cat Cat:Ethnic groups categories Identifies categories for ethnic groups-related content. cat=yes
The cat parameter only to be set on category talk pages. The class parameter should also be set to NA (class=NA)
list Cat:Ethnic groups lists Identifies lists for ethnic groups-related content. list=yes
The list parameter assists in identifying articles which function essentially as lists of ethnic-group related entries (whether or not the article is entitled "List of...").