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Strange thing with project links

There's something odd going on with the project links in this template and its children: when a template links to WikiProject {{{PROJECT}}}, it's showing up in the Whatlinkshere for the article named "PROJECT".

For instance, Template:WikiProject Science Fiction links to Wikipedia:WikiProject Science Fiction, but it also appears in Special:Whatlinkshere/Science Fiction. Another example, Template:WikiProject Health and fitness links to Wikipedia:WikiProject Health and fitness, but it also appears in Special:Whatlinkshere/Health and fitness. (And there is no article Health and fitness, so it ended up being listed for Red Link Recovery, which is how I came to notice.)

I'm not up to wading through the code for this template to figure out what's going on – can somebody look into it? —Paul A (talk) 06:33, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

Well, the science fiction banner has a link to Science Fiction in the banner text which is why it shows up in Special:Whatlinkshere/Science Fiction. For the Health and fitness banner, if no |MAIN_TEXT= or |MAIN_ARTICLE= is specified then the banner code does an ifexists check on the value of the PROJECT parameter to see if that should be linked to or not which is why it's showing up in the Whatlinkshere. I've now set a MAIN_ARTICLE on that banner without any link so Whatlinkshere should clear out in a while. -- WOSlinker (talk) 06:45, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

I see. (Let me try that with another template that's been listed for Red Link Recovery – yes.) Thanks! —Paul A (talk) 08:46, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

...but it doesn't seem to be the reason why Template:WikiProject Amateur radio is appearing on Special:WhatLinksHere/Suomen_Radioamatooriliitto. Any suggestions? —Paul A (talk) 09:01, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

Never mind. It's because it transcludes Wikipedia:WikiProject Amateur radio/To Do List. —Paul A (talk) 09:03, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

SHOW?

The hook {{WPBannerMeta/hooks/priorityscale}} has a SHOW option, but I don't see what it does. I've set it to No, but I didn't see a change. Due to confusion regarding "importance", we're trying to transition to "priority", but would also like to hide the priority if no priority is defined. Morphh ^(talk) 12:19, 09 July 2009 (UTC)

It's an internal parameter, which shouldn't have been exposed. I'm not sure why you'd want to hide the scale if it's not been set (it automatically hides itself on non-articles, but surely if no priority has been assigned, that's an issue that needs to be resolved?); but you can achieve it with something like this:

|HOOK_ASSESS   = {{#if: {{WPBannerMeta/importance|{{{priority|}}}|{{{class|}}}}}
                   |{{WPBannerMeta/hooks/priorityscale
                      ...
                    }}
                   |{{WPBannerMeta/hooks/cats
                      |category={{{category|¬}}}
                      |cat 1 = yes
                      |CAT_1 = Unknown-priority Tulips articles
                    }}
                 }}

That will display the priority rating if one is set, or just add the category otherwise. Hope this helps, Happy‑melon 12:36, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. I'm going to get clarification on what the project wants to do with the hiding as you make a very good point. Perhaps they want to hide it after it is assigned. Editors are getting into too many disputes over the "importance" of an article, so we're trying to make it more apparent that this is only a project priority. Morphh ^(talk) 12:58, 09 July 2009 (UTC)

qualimpintersect

This quality / importance intersect template {{WPBannerMeta/hooks/qualimpintersect}} does not have the ability to configure it for "Priority". Perhaps someone could fix. Thanks, Morphh ^(talk) 1:56, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

It does, although the docs don't quite show it. Just set |IMPN=priority -- WOSlinker (talk) 05:36, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

Ok, this worked on the article itself, but for some reason none of the articles are updating the categories. For example, if you go to Talk:Economics, which shows Category:B-Class, Top-priority Economics articles at the bottom, but when you click it, it is not in that category. It's still in the Category:B-Class, Top-importance Economics articles. I've waited approx 24 hours, thinking maybe a bot would move it, but nothing has changed. They only seem to move if someone edits the talk page of the article. Morphh ^(talk) 11:58, 11 July 2009 (UTC)

You'll just have to wait for the job queue to catch up. Yes, any edit to the page (including a null edit) will force recategorisation. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 13:30, 11 July 2009 (UTC)