Template:WikiProject Arctic/doc

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{{WPARCTIC}}

The {{WikiProject Arctic}} 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:

Usage

Arctic C‑class High‑importance

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Arctic, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Arctic on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Arcticwikipedia:WikiProject ArcticTemplate:WikiProject ArcticArctic articles
C	This article has been rated as C-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
High	This article has been rated as High-importance on the project's importance scale.
	This article has been marked as needing immediate attention.

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:

This project banner specifies a non-existent assessment page Wikipedia:WikiProject Arctic/Assessment. Please update or remove the |ASSESSMENT_LINK= parameter to fix this problem.
Automatic parameter checking is enabled. Create the tracking category to track invalid parameters.

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Article assessment parameters:

class – a rating of the article's quality; see Wikipedia:WikiProject Arctic/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.
- C - Needs more improvement, expansion, factchecking, etc. before an upgrade to B-class.
- 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 Arctic stub templates.
- NA - The page is not an article and should not be rated; it could be a template, image or category, for example.
- Disambig or Dab - The article is a disambiguation page.
- Template - The page is a template.
- Category or Cat - The page is a category.
importance - a rating of the article's importance within the Wikipedia:WikiProject Arctic. Valid values are (case insensitive):
- Top
- High
- Mid
- Low

Project work parameters (set them to "yes" to include them):

attention - the article needs immediate attention; adds articles to Category:Arctic articles needing attention