Template talk:WikiProject Lists

This project requires a full Quality Scale
Currently, this project uses the Version 1.0 Editorial Team bot for article statistics. This requires our Project Template to have a Full Quality scale. However, it is appropriate for this Project to limit the classes used and monitored by the Assessment Department. Therefore it has become necessary for the project create a Custom mask for Quality class. The Custom mask for WikiProject Lists limits class to FL, List, and Stub for articles, uses all appropriate predefined Quality classes for articles in the Namespace, updates BLANK classes to the List class, and automatically changes incorrect Quality class codes. Prapsnot (talk) 23:23, 19 July 2009 (UTC)

Assessment Cat
In 2007 User:BetacommandBot began creating Categories for this project using the word List. The unfortunate result is that our Assessment_Cat code does not say |ASSESSMENT_CAT= WikiProject Lists articles as in other projects. Instead it says |ASSESSMENT_CAT= List articles. So our assessment page follows suit and is titled List/Assessment as a work-around. This should be fixed in the future, and Categories renamed and redirected; but too tired now. Prapsnot (talk) 08:23, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

Questions and suggestions
Why is the yes parameter required for this banner? All the parameter actually does is display a message if an article is rated Stub-Class to say that it has been assessed by a bot; this doesn't seem particuarly useful or relevant in the context of this banner.

Also, any thoughts on using SL-Class (i.e. "Stub List") as opposed to Stub-Class? This little-known assessment grade is used by at least one other project and would seem to be rather apt for this project. PC78 (talk) 12:38, 19 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Another thing: the assessment page for this project states, "This Project includes Image, Template, Portal, Disambiguation, Category and Project classes when appropriate". With the exception of Disambig-Class, this is not true. There is no support for these other classes in the banner's custom mask, so they all default to List-Class. PC78 (talk) 12:45, 19 September 2009 (UTC)
 * This last point has been resolved. PC78 (talk) 15:50, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

The auto parameter is invoking Template:Auto, which is a redirect to Template:WikiProject Automobiles. However, it could be that it only shows while the page is being previewed. It appears that Template:WikiProject Animation had a similar problem. Senator2029 “let's talk”  17:13, 8 November 2012 (UTC)

What can I do to fix I to where I can see what has been sent to me by email when it says I can't access it because of http error 403
I need know how to fix it and what it means Keneatha Erb (talk) 10:07, 8 August 2018 (UTC)
 * this is the talk page for discussing improvements to the template . From what you have written, I suggest that you try the help desk. -- Red rose64 &#x1f339; (talk) 16:06, 8 August 2018 (UTC)

Default class
Shouldn't the default class value be 'List'? After all, this tag is for list articles. Lordtobi ( &#9993; ) 13:28, 15 August 2019 (UTC)
 * No; as with all other WikiProject banners, the default is (and should be) Unassessed. Valid values that are not autodetected are: stub; fl; list; dab. -- Red rose64 &#x1f339; (talk) 17:00, 15 August 2019 (UTC)

Edit request
Can someone please fix the dablink to Lists? Thanks, BEANS X2 (talk) 22:54, 19 December 2019 (UTC)
 * I have made a formal request below. The Edit template-protected template is needed to get a template-editor's attention, and detailed instructions of what to change the wording to are needed so he can make the change quickly.  The sandbox and testcase weren't strictly speaking necessary, but they are frequently helpful when asking for an edit to a protected template.  davidwr/  (talk)/(contribs)  22:20, 4 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks for letting me know. It seems to have been fixed now, thanks!  12:15, 7 March 2020 (UTC)

Requested edit
Please change Lists to Stand-alone lists in the MAIN_TEXT line of WPBannerMeta). I have already made the change in the sandbox (diff). I've also created generic test cases so you can see the difference. davidwr/  (talk)/(contribs)  22:17, 4 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done – Jonesey95 (talk) 00:21, 5 March 2020 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 24 May 2020
To improve categorization of lists into categories of the WikiProject Lists please apply Special:Diff/943982596/958638472. —⁠andrybak (talk) 22:45, 24 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done for now: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the template. Let me show you the documentation for that parameter:
 * Notice the last sentence in particular. If there are no other WikiProject banners on a page, it's fine; if there are other WikiProject banners on a page but none of them set listas, it's also fine; but if there is at least one that sets listas there may be a conflict, giving an error message like Warning: Default sort key "Formula One circuits" overrides earlier default sort key "Formula One circuits, List of". and the page will be put in to . -- Red rose64 &#x1f339; (talk) 07:27, 25 May 2020 (UTC)
 * , after looking at source code of Template:WPBannerMeta/core it is obvious that these approach won't work, since talk pages might have several WikiProject banners on them, and adding automatic to one of them would cause issues. But it is a bit surprising that  is not passed to internals (like Template:WPBannerMeta/qualityscale) alongside the category parameters   to enable sorting on a category-by-category basis. —⁠andrybak (talk) 09:14, 25 May 2020 (UTC)
 * No, it doesn't need to be in the individual cats, because it's used to set up a  which applies to all categories (see WP:SORTKEY item 11). If you have more than one on the same page, all must have the same value otherwise you get the error message that I described. -- Red rose64 &#x1f339; (talk) 19:45, 25 May 2020 (UTC)
 * No, it doesn't need to be in the individual cats, because it's used to set up a  which applies to all categories (see WP:SORTKEY item 11). If you have more than one on the same page, all must have the same value otherwise you get the error message that I described. -- Red rose64 &#x1f339; (talk) 19:45, 25 May 2020 (UTC)

WPBS error
Hi all, I was wondering if there was an error/bug with this template's corroboration with template:WPBS, the |class= parameter on the WPBS doesn't indicate the class within the WP List template. I'm not sure if the parameter is classified per the respective category but I can't find an explanation as to why this happens to be the case, I'm certain I've used the WPBS with this template many times and its worked fine. See this example below (|cat=no).

Now when you open the [show] icon next to the WP list template, it says that the article is classed as a template (this is on the template talk page so makes sense), but because it is in the WPBS, the |class parameter should override this auto-cat as class it as a list. If this were to be used on a regular article talk page, the List template will have ??? as if it weren't classed yet, but the WPBS says otherwise. This is shown in the WPBS this article's talk page. When you open the WP list template, it says that the article has not yet received a rating, when it has clearly been rated in the WPBS. I'd really appreciate it if someone could clarify why this is the case, is something wrong? Am I doing something wrong? Cheers Idiosincrático (talk) 15:48, 6 October 2023 (UTC)


 * I also ran into this on another talk page but looking at the docs of this template, it appears to be intended: "This project is using a non-standard scale and has opted out of project-independent quality assessments." - so it appears it wouldn't inherit the class from the banner shell and one needs to explicitly specify the |class. See also WikiProject_Lists. Simeon (talk) 19:07, 11 October 2023 (UTC)
 * This causes an issue of you have the very rare case like 2001, which is technically in WikiProject Lists but due to being an article it was promoted to GA status. Lists doesn't assess anything as GA/GL, so it is stuck as 'unassessed'. Recon  rabbit  03:51, 1 February 2024 (UTC)