Template:WikiProject History of Science/doc
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This template is the project banner for WikiProject History of Science.
The template is to be placed on talk pages (only) of the articles identified as being within the Project's scope (basically anything to do with the histories of science, technology, and medicine, as well as science studies, STS, etc.).
This template automatically assigns the category Category:WikiProject History of Science articles to the articles' talk pages. This category and other associated WikiProject 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.
Usage instructions
[edit]General syntax options for this template are as follows:
{{WikiProject History of Science
|importance=
}}
The parameters are named, and (if used) must be entered exactly as-is (note, all are lowercase).
Class
[edit]- class – This WikiProject follows Project-Independent Quality Assessment. Please add valid
|class=values to {{WikiProject banner shell}} instead of this WikiProject. Valid class values can be found at Wikipedia:Content assessment.
Importance
[edit]An article's importance assessment is generated from the importance parameter in the {{WikiProject History of Science}} project banner on its talk page:
The following values may be used for the importance parameter to describe the relative importance of the article within the project (see Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Priority of topic for assessment criteria):
| Top (adds articles to Category:Top-importance history of science articles) | Top | |
| High (adds articles to Category:High-importance history of science articles) | High | |
| Mid (adds articles to Category:Mid-importance history of science articles) | Mid | |
| Low (adds articles to Category:Low-importance history of science articles) | Low | |
| NA (adds pages to Category:NA-importance history of science pages) | NA | |
| ??? (articles for which a valid importance rating has not yet been provided are listed in Category:Unknown-importance history of science articles) | ??? |