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WP:JAZZ may have something to offer in terms of improving or even maintaining the article, so it should be added to articles only with significant jazz content. |
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Do we want to set up a category, into which pages with this banner would be added? -- Gyrofrog (talk) 20:42, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
Now that the category exists, it is possible to have subgategories, too ... and they could be filled by additional flags that this template could also support ...
With album articles getting tagged for the project, maybe an "album" flag in the template would be wise that automatically puts those articles into a subcategory for album articles. BNutzer 10:25, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
(un-indent)My pleasure, you are welcome ;) Thinning out was not my orginal purpose - it was "browsability" rather, and that can be found in the subcategory. And I think it makes some sense to have the parent category contain all tagged project articles. Other projects also do that (e.g. Albums project, WPBiography musicians work group formerly known as Musicians project). What does everybody else think about that? Should articles with the album flag show only in the albums subcategory or also stay in the parent category? Another discussion for the project talk page I guess. But I have to act in the offline world for a few hours now, so no time for syntax research now. BNutzer 13:14, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
{{ WPBiography}} sets the magic word {{DEFAULTSORT}} for a talk page based on the template's listas parameter: with an empty listas= the sort key will be {{PAGENAME}}, with a listas=value, the sort key will be value. I would like to have {{ Jazz-music-project}} set the sort key for the talk page to {{PAGENAME}} if {{DEFAULTSORT}} is not set for the talk page yet (to have the talk page not be sorted under 'T'). In other words: Don't touch the default sort key, if a template or editor has already set it, otherwise do {{DEFAULTSORT:{{PAGENAME}} }}. So far, I have not yet understood how to code that. Any help or comment would be appreciated. Regards, BNutzer 13:48, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
(Cross-posted to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Jazz/Archives/2009 1#Jazz-music-project template) I noticed that the "album=" and "song=" categories had been removed from {{ Jazz-music-project}} ( [1]), which in turn led me to notice that Category:WikiProject Jazz album articles and Category:WikiProject Jazz composition articles had been blanked (i.e., removed from Category:WikiProject Jazz articles) and subsequently deleted. I'm just wondering why this occurred (I can't find any relevant discussion). -- Gyrofrog (talk) 16:56, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
And I have added an explanation to the documentation concerning the assessment classes which have been available and used since the inclusion of {{ WPBannerMeta}} (if I am not mistaken). Also, I have removed the fairly obsolete old "Usage" section from the template. BNutzer ( talk) 18:53, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
FYI: I have just tested to find out that the template also supports setting a "listas" parameter: Talk:Babik Reinhardt shows in Category:Unassessed Jazz articles under "R" after adding "listas=Reinhardt, Babik" - without that, it showed in "B". BNutzer ( talk) 20:39, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
This template should have a parameter for biographies. Roger ( talk) 20:38, 3 November 2012 (UTC)
I think the template name should be "Template:WikiProject Jazz" and we should have a fairly standard redirect at "Template:WP-Jazz". Seems standard from other projects. Not to be confused with WP:JAZZ which is a navigation template. See " Template:WikiProject Tennis", the redirect at Template:WP-Tennis (Select the "redirected from" link); then the portal template at Template:TennisPortal. -- I will wait a week to see what the project thinks. - Mjquin_id ( talk) 05:11, 4 September 2009 (UTC)
Please see the discussion archived at WT:JAZZ/Archives/2010#WP:JAZZ template and project scope regarding the suggested use of this template. Thanks, -- Gyrofrog (talk) 19:40, 18 December 2010 (UTC)
This template has a "needs-infobox=" parameter, which when set to "yes" places the article within Category:Jazz articles needing infoboxes. {{ WikiProject Biography}} also has that parameter (which places the page within Category:Biography articles without infoboxes). It seems redundant to set this to "yes" for both banners, but that's what I've been doing in order for the page to appear in the relevant categories. Recently I've seen this parameter usage replaced with {{ Infobox requested}}, which places the page within Category:Wikipedia articles with an infobox request but does not otherwise specify WP:JAZZ, WP:BIO etc.
This leads me to my question, is there a way to set up this template so that it will detect other infobox requests (whether in {{WikiProject Biography}}, {{Infobox requested}}, or elsewhere) so that the page will still be placed in "Cat:Jazz articles needing infoboxes"?
(On a related note, "Cat:Jazz articles needing infoboxes" was not a subcat of "Cat:Wikipedia articles with an infobox request" until I placed it there a moment ago.)
I'm also thinking about asking a 'bot to go through Category:Jazz and update the talk pages of articles that don't have infoboxes, but that's a discussion for another time and place. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 18:34, 5 October 2012 (UTC)