This template is part of WikiProject Alternative music, a group of Wikipedians interested in improving the encyclopedic coverage of articles relating to Alternative rock. 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.Alternative musicWikipedia:WikiProject Alternative musicTemplate:WikiProject Alternative musicAlternative music articles
This WikiProject banner template uses Module:WikiProject banner, a meta-template for easily creating and maintaining project banners. Please report any errors or feature requests to Module talk:WikiProject banner. Information or warnings about the template are below:
Automatic parameter checking is enabled. Create the tracking category to track invalid parameters.
Some of the assessment categories required for Pixies taskforce do not currently exist, and should to be created to avoid redlinks appearing on talk pages. Alternatively, you may need to set or update the |TF_1_ASSESSMENT_CAT= parameter in this template.
Some of the assessment categories required for Nirvana taskforce do not currently exist, and should to be created to avoid redlinks appearing on talk pages. Alternatively, you may need to set or update the |TF_2_ASSESSMENT_CAT= parameter in this template.
Some of the assessment categories required for The Smashing Pumpkins taskforce do not currently exist, and should to be created to avoid redlinks appearing on talk pages. Alternatively, you may need to set or update the |TF_3_ASSESSMENT_CAT= parameter in this template.
The following categories are required for the banner to work correctly. Please either create these categories or adjust the banner so that they are not required.
The template is to be placed on talk pages (only) of the articles identified as being within the Project's scope (at or near the top of the talkpage).
This template automatically assigns the category Category:WikiProject Alternative music articles to the articles' talk pages. This category and other associated Project categories are used in various ways by the Project in the overall management of the Project's workload.
This template contains optional parameters, details of usage are given below.
General syntax options for this template are as follows:
{{WikiProject Alternative music|class=|importance=|pixies-taskforce=|nirvana-taskforce=|pumpkins-taskforce=|listas=}}
The parameters are named, and (if used) must be entered exactly as-is (note, all are lowercase).
The class and importance parameters are associated with the Project's article assessment and rating scheme. These parameters add a category to the talkpage, which category depends on the values chosen.
class – valid values are listed in the custom class mask. 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.
importance – valid values are: top, high, mid, low, na (case-insensitive). See the project's importance scale for details. Setting an explicit value of NA is rarely necessary; for this, either leave |importance= blank or omit the parameter.
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 Kurt Cobain, use |listas=Cobain, Kurt so that the talk page will show up in the C's and not the K'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. If the article is using {{WikiProject banner shell}} then it is preferable to add |listas= to that template instead of a project banner template. Putting the parameter on more than one template is not required.
nirvana-taskforce – set |nirvana-taskforce =yes if the article is supported by Nirvana taskforce.
pixies-taskforce – set |pixies-taskforce=yes if the article is supported by Pixies taskforce.
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.
