Template:WikiProject Finance

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 This article is part of WikiProject Finance, an attempt to better organize information in articles related to Finance. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.
??? This article has not yet received a rating on the project's quality scale. Please rate the article and then leave a short summary here to explain the ratings and/or to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the article.
This template employs intricate features of template syntax.
You are encouraged to familiarise yourself with its setup and parser functions before editing the template. If your edit causes unexpected problems, please undo it quickly, as this template may appear on a large number of pages.
Remember that you can conduct experiments, and should test all improvements, in either the general Template sandbox or your user space before changing anything here.

[edit] Usage

The {{WikiProject Finance}} project banner template should be added (not subst:ed) to the talk page of every article within the scope of the project. While the template does not require any additional parameters, it has a number of optional ones that add various extra features to the banner. The full syntax is as follows:

[edit] Syntax

{{WikiProject Finance
|class=
|attention=
|peer-review=
|old-peer-review=
|needs-infobox=
}}

[edit] Use in practice

{{WikiProject Finance
|class=A                                 <!-- FA, A, GA, B, Start, Stub, Dab, Cat and Template-->
|attention=yes                           <!-- Immediate attention required. Needed by some bots. -->
                                         <!-- More information available at -->
                                         <!-- "Category:Finance articles needing attention" -->
|peer-review=yes                         <!-- Need more input on your article? -->
                                         <!-- Ask others to comment on it -->
|old-peer-review=yes                     <!-- If this procedure has already taken place -->
|needs-infobox=yes                       <!-- Self explanatory. -->
}}

General parameters:

  • class – a rating of the article's quality; see Wikipedia:WikiProject Finance/Assessment for more details. Valid values are:
    • FA - The article has reached Featured article status.
    • A - Could be submitted as a Featured article candidate; probably could use some small updates to make it Featured quality.
    • GA - The article has reached Good article status.
    • B - Could be submitted as a Good article nominee; probably could use some updates or may lack some features from the Good article criteria, but it presents a good overview of the subject.
    • Start - The article is more than a stub, but may lack some important aspects of the topic's discussion.
    • Stub - The article is a stub; it likely contains one of the Finance stub templates or Economics and finance stub templates.
    • List - The article is a list.
    • Dab - The page is a disambiguation page.
    • Cat - The page is a category.
    • Template - The page is a template.
    • Needed - The article is needed.


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