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The ((WikiProject Japan)) project banner template should be added (notsubst: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.
Usage
Syntax
The full syntax is as follows (please remove any unused parameters):
((WikiProject Japan|class=|importance=|needs-attention=|needs-infobox=|listas=|pref-photo=|pref-photo-2=|pref-photo-3=|pref-photo-4=|pref-photo-5=|pref-photo-6=|pref-photo-7=|pref-photo-8=|person-photo=|photo=|ainu=|baseball=|bibliography=|biography=|business=|car=|cinema=|CJKV=|culture=|dist-muni=|education=|fauna= OR |flora=|food= OR |drink=|gaijin=|geography=|history=|infrastructure=|law=|milhist=|music=|myth=|owarai=|phototf=|politics=|prefectures=|religion=|royalty=|science=|shinto=|sport=|trains=|transwiki=|tokyo=|update=))
If a field name is listed in the Prerequisites column, it is a prerequisite for the field to the left.
Parameters
class – a rating of the article's quality; see the assessment department for more details. Categories and Templates are automatically assessed by this template, and therefore do not need to have the class specified. Options are:
needs-attention - "yes" if the article needs immediate attention for one reason or another. It is strongly encouraged to also add a section to the talk page explaining what needs attention.
needs-infobox - "yes" if the article needs an infobox added to it.
listas - fill in if the article needs to be sorted in categories some way other than using the article title. For example, Talk:Izumi Takemoto would have this parameter completed using Takemoto, Izumi because the article should be sorted by the family name.
Up to eight prefectures can be specified for locations where a photo might be obtained:
pref-photo and pref-photo-2 through pref-photo-8 - Enter the name of the prefecture (e.g., |pref-photo=Hiroshima) to indicate a photo is requested for this location in Hiroshima Prefecture. Be sure to use correct capitalization (i.e., "Hiroshima" not "hiroshima"). Options include: Aichi, Akita, Aomori, Chiba, Ehime, Fukui, Fukuoka, Fukushima, Gifu, Gunma, Hiroshima, Hokkaido, Hyōgo, Ibaraki, Ishikawa, Iwate, Kagawa, Kagoshima, Kanagawa, Kōchi, Kumamoto, Kyoto, Mie, Miyagi, Miyazaki, Nagano, Nagasaki, Nara, Niigata, Ōita, Okayama, Okinawa, Osaka, Saga, Saitama, Shiga, Shimane, Shizuoka, Tochigi, Tokushima, Tokyo, Tottori, Toyama, Wakayama, Yamagata, Yamaguchi, or Yamanashi.
You can also specify a person or group of people needing a photo, or a generic need for a photo for an article which is not about a person/group or a specific location:
person-photo - "yes" if the article about a person or group of people needs a photo.
photo - "yes" if the article needs a photo, but the article is not about a specific location or a person (or persons in the case of a group)
Task forces
ainu - "yes" if the article falls under the Ainu task force
baseball - "yes" if the article falls under the Baseball task force
bibliography - "yes" if the article falls under the Bibliography task force
biography - "yes" if the article falls under the Biography task force
