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Added a link in OP to the sidebar which shows a list of descendant projects to Computing. Comment is in 'add X to Y' format. Tule-hog (talk) 23:42, 21 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Apologies, this is a distinct request from the one below it. Here I am referring to missing subproject parameters in the primary Computing template itself (used to mark subprojects as well as their importance via <subproj>-importance={Low/Mid/High}).
Currently missing (followed by a recommended parameter name) are:
This is the only discussion I've seen - I presumed it was a default behavior for WikiProject templates and their descendants, and this was simply out-of-date.
Did not realize I had stepped into a classic WikiProject snag with this. Thank you Paine for recommending a search through the archives. Here is a list of similar past discussions:
denied council proposal - more to do tagging any two WikiProjects, but touches on issues with bots and banners.
misunderstanding? - this one seems to imply the <subproj>=yes syntax does not also add the article to the actual descendant project? This is hopefully incorrect, as the whole point of the unified banner is doing both. If it is not just added syntactic sugar for adding to a descendant project, I would oppose the proposal I'm making.
descendant-by-descendant - recommends asking each descendant project. Don't want to create unnecessary bureaucratic processes, but might be worth asking the currently included children again as well.
From browsing through these, my take-away is that a couple of bold edits created the initial banner feature, and further calls to standardize it went un-answered. The misunderstanding post is worrying, but as far as I can tell incorrect - the descendant parameters also add the article to the descendant project (e.g., Patch (computing) is correctly sorted). Tule-hog (talk) 05:49, 22 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
How is the child-parent organization of projects established. Is there a database or a list or what? In other words, what is your source for your list above of missing children? ~Kvng (talk) 15:18, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks. Clearly there are many cases where a child project has it's own WP banners. It is currently acceptable to use either these banners or parameters in the parent banner, if available. The question is whether we need to improve the "if available" situation. I guess a reasonable answer is, why not? I can't think of a reason why not. ~Kvng (talk) 15:01, 25 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Further, I believe I've seen consensus established against editors systematically altering articles to use a parent banner+child parameter, instead of multiple banners. I am having trouble finding that discussion though. Tule-hog (talk) 22:08, 25 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Edit request 21 July 2024
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Description of suggested change:
Add missing display tags to descendant WikiProject previews in banner shell.
Done. Left out the following lines (starting | omitted):
TF_13_QUALITY = yes
tf 13 importance={{{databases-importance|}}}
since it would require creating categories for the inactive project.
I have also added networking as an optional alternate name for the network (and network-importance) parameter, since the task force is called 'Networking'.
