Template:WikiProject Film/doc

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

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WikiProject Film
General information ( v t e ) Main project page + talk → Discussion archives Style guidelines talk → Multimedia talk → Naming conventions talk → Copy-editing essentials talk Notability guidelines talk Announcements and open tasks talk → Article alerts → Cleanup listing → New articles talk → Nominations for deletion talk → Popular pages → Requests talk Spotlight talk Film portal talk Fiction noticeboard talk
Project organization Coordinators talk Participants talk Project banner talk Project category talk
Departments Assessment talk → B-Class → Instructions Categorization talk Core talk Outreach talk Resources talk Review talk Spotlight talk → Spotlight cleanup listing Topic workshop talk
Task forces General topics Film awards talk Film festivals talk Film finance talk Filmmaking talk Silent films talk Genre Animated films talk Christian films talk Comic book films talk Documentary films talk Marvel Cinematic Universe talk Skydance Media talk War films talk Avant-garde and experimental films talk National and regional American cinema talk Argentine cinema talk Australian cinema talk Baltic cinema talk British cinema talk Canadian cinema talk Chinese cinema talk French cinema talk German cinema talk Indian cinema talk Italian cinema talk Japanese cinema talk Korean cinema talk Mexican cinema talk New Zealand cinema talk Nordic cinema talk Pakistani cinema talk Persian cinema talk Southeast Asian cinema talk Soviet and post-Soviet cinema talk Spanish cinema talk Uruguayan cinema talk Venezuelan cinema talk
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The {{WikiProject Film}} project banner template should be added (never 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.

Basic usage

An article's quality assessment is generated from the class parameter in the {{WikiProject Film}} project banner on its talk page:

The following values may be used for the class parameter to describe the quality of the article (see Wikipedia:Content assessment for assessment criteria):

FA (for featured articles only; adds articles to Category:FA-Class film articles)		FA
A (adds articles to Category:A-Class film articles)		A
GA (for good articles only; adds articles to Category:GA-Class film articles)		GA
B (adds articles to Category:B-Class film articles)		B
C (adds articles to Category:C-Class film articles)		C
Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class film articles)		Start
Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class film articles)		Stub
FL (for featured lists only; adds articles to Category:FL-Class film articles)		FL
List (adds articles to Category:List-Class film articles)		List

For non-standard grades and non-mainspace content, the following values may be used for the class parameter:

Category (for categories; adds pages to Category:Category-Class film articles)		Category
Disambig (for disambiguation pages; adds pages to Category:Disambig-Class film articles)		Disambig
Draft (for drafts; adds pages to Category:Draft-Class film articles)		Draft
FM (for featured media only; adds pages to Category:FM-Class film articles)		FM
File (for files and timed text; adds pages to Category:File-Class film articles)		File
Portal (for portal pages; adds pages to Category:Portal-Class film articles)		Portal
Project (for project pages; adds pages to Category:Project-Class film articles)		Project
Redirect (for redirect pages; adds pages to Category:Redirect-Class film articles)		Redirect
Template (for templates and modules; adds pages to Category:Template-Class film articles)		Template
NA (for any other pages where assessment is unnecessary; adds pages to Category:NA-Class film articles)		NA
??? (articles for which a valid class has not yet been provided are listed in Category:Unassessed film articles)		???

Optional parameters

General

• listas – a sortkey to produce a correct ordering of pages within a category, e.g. for The Fifth Element set |listas=Fifth Element, The
• needs-image - set |needs-image=yes if the article needs an image, such as a poster or on-set photo
• needs-infobox – set |needs-infobox=yes if the article needs an infobox, e.g. {{Infobox film}}

National and Regional task forces

• American – set |American=yes if the article is supported by the American cinema task force
• Argentine – set |Argentine=yes if the article is supported by the Argentine cinema task force
• Australian – set |Australian=yes if the article is supported by the Australian cinema task force
• Baltic – set |Baltic=yes if the article is supported by the Baltic cinema task force
• British – set |British=yes if the article is supported by the British cinema task force
• Canadian – set |Canadian=yes if the article is supported by the Canadian cinema task force
• Chinese – set |Chinese=yes if the article is supported by the Chinese cinema task force
• French – set |French=yes if the article is supported by the French cinema task force
• German – set |German=yes if the article is supported by the German cinema task force
• Indian – set |Indian=yes if the article is supported by the Indian cinema task force
• Italian – set |Italian=yes if the article is supported by the Italian cinema task force
• Japanese – set |Japanese=yes if the article is supported by the Japanese cinema task force
• Korean – set |Korean=yes if the article is supported by the Korean cinema task force
• Mexican – set |Mexican=yes if the article is supported by the Mexican cinema task force
• NZ – set |NZ=yes if the article is supported by the New Zealand cinema task force
• Nordic – set |Nordic=yes if the article is supported by the Nordic cinema task force
• Pakistani – set |Pakistani=yes if the article is supported by the Pakistani cinema task force
• Paraguayan – set |Paraguayan=yes if the article is supported by the Paraguayan cinema task force
• Persian – set |Persian=yes if the article is supported by the Persian cinema task force
• Southeast – set |Southeast=yes if the article is supported by the Southeast Asian cinema task force
• Soviet – set |Soviet=yes if the article is supported by the Soviet and post-Soviet cinema task force
• Spanish – set |Spanish=yes if the article is supported by the Spanish cinema task force
• Venezuelan — set |Venezuelan-cinema-task-force=yes if the article is supported by the Venezuelan cinema task force

General task forces

• Awards – set |Awards=yes if the article is supported by the Film awards task force
• Festival – set |Festival=yes if the article is supported by the Film festivals task force
• Filmmaking – set |Filmmaking=yes if the article is supported by the Filmmaking task force
• Silent – set |Silent=yes if the article is supported by the Silent films task force

Genre task forces

• Animated – set |Animated=yes if the article is supported by the Animated films task force
• Christian – set |Christian=yes if the article is supported by the Christian films task force
• Comics – set |Comics=yes if the article is supported by the Comic book films task force
• Documentary – set |Documentary=yes if the article is supported by the Documentary films task force
• MCU – set |MCU=yes if the article is supported by the Marvel Cinematic Universe task force
• War – set |War=yes if the article is supported by the War films task force

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

Tracking categories

• Category:WikiProject Film banner templates with categories disabled (0)
• Category:Pages using WikiProject Film with unknown parameters (0)