If you must edit this template:  Please give a detailed edit summary to explain what you're doing.  If the changes are significant discuss it on the talk page first.  Don't mark major edits as minor.  Do the changes in a sandbox first and then paste them in in a single edit.  Template:WPBiography/sandbox can be used to carry out tests and provide code for major changes.  The template is used on over 760,000 pages and it's a big strain on the servers every time it's updated (see the job queue); please be careful when updating the template.   Usage  Please note: This template should be transcluded and not substituted because it employs conditional code, i.e.  not .  Transclusion also allows easy updating of all the Project's talk pages without having to edit hundreds of thousands of pages.  Many of these parameters put the talk page of the article into an appropriate category.  A manually generated (though sporadically updated) list of all the categories used in this template is at Template:WPBiography/category list.   Basic usage  {{WPBiography|living=|class=|listas=}}   Extended usage  {{WPBiography |living = yes/no (MANDATORY FIELD) |activepol =  |blpo =  |class =  |auto =  |a&e-work-group =  |a&e-priority =  |filmbio-work-group =  |filmbio-priority =  |musician-work-group =  |musician-priority =  |military-work-group =  |military-priority =  |peerage-work-group =  |peerage-priority =  |politician-work-group =  |politician-priority =  |royalty-work-group =  |royalty-priority =  |s&a-work-group =  |s&a-priority =  |sports-work-group =  |sports-priority =  |attention =  |needs-photo =  |needs-infobox =  |needs-persondata =  |needs-filmography =  |needs-discography =  |past-collaboration =  |peer-review =  |old-peer-review =  |A-Class =  |listas =  |small =  }}   Living people, active politicians and other BLP issues    Answer yes or no. If yes, this also affects the  parameter, to emphasize the fact that free images must be used.  This parameter must be specified whether or not the person is living.  If , this parameter adds  above WPBiography and populates :Category:Biography articles of living people.  Articles lacking this parameter are found in :Category:Biography articles without living parameter.    Answer yes if the article is about a currently active politician, otherwise remove this line.  This parameter adds  above WPBiography and populates :Category:Active politicians.  Can only be used if .    Answer yes if the subject of the article is not a living person, but the article contains sensitive information about other living persons, otherwise remove this line.  This parameter adds  above WPBiography.  Can only be used if .  Note: The ,  and  banners will not be visible if WPBiography is used within , but the relevant categories will still be added.  In such cases, these banners can still be added to a talk page by using the relevant parameters in ; please refer to that template's documentation for further instruction.  Any changes to the wording of these banners should be requested on the corresponding template talk page, not here.   Quality assessments    Options are FA, A, GA, B, C, Start, Stub, FL, List, Category, Disambig, Template or NA.  If blank, this will default as Unassessed.  Descriptions of the options can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Assessment#Quality scale.  This parameter populates the following categories: :Category:FA-Class biography articles; :Category:A-Class biography articles; :Category:GA-Class biography articles; :Category:B-Class biography articles; :Category:C-Class biography articles; :Category:Start-Class biography articles; :Category:Stub-Class biography articles; :Category:FL-Class biography articles; :Category:List-Class biography articles; :Category:Category-Class biography articles; :Category:Disambig-Class biography articles; :Category:Template-Class biography articles; :Category:NA-Class biography articles; and :Category:Unassessed biography articles.  Additional categories will be populated if one or more work groups are specified.    This parameter is for the use of bots.   indicates that an article has been assessed as Stub-Class because it has one or more stub tags.  This parameter populates :Category:Automatically assessed biography articles.  Additional categories will be populated if one or more work groups are specified.   Work group parameters     Answer yes if the article is within the scope of the arts and entertainment work group, otherwise remove this line.  If the article is about an actor or filmmaker, please use  instead; if the article is about a musician, please use  instead.   Options are Top, High, Mid, Low or NA.  If blank, this will default as Unknown.  These parameters populate the categories listed here.   } Answer yes if the article is within the scope of WikiProject Actors and Filmmakers, otherwise remove this line.   Options are Top, High, Mid, Low or NA.  If blank, this will default as Unknown.  These parameters populate the categories listed here.    Answer yes if the article is within the scope of WikiProject Musicians, otherwise remove this line.   Options are Top, High, Mid, Low or NA.  If blank, this will default as Unknown.  These parameters populate the categories listed here.    Answer yes if the article is within the scope of the military biography work group, otherwise remove this line.   Options are Top, High, Mid, Low or NA.  If blank, this will default as Unknown.  These parameters populate the categories listed here.    Answer yes if the article is within the scope of WikiProject Peerage and Baronetage, otherwise remove this line.   Options are Top, High, Mid, Low or NA.  If blank, this will default as Unknown.  These parameters populate the categories listed here.    Answer yes if the article is within the scope of the politics and government work group, otherwise remove this line.   Options are Top, High, Mid, Low or NA.  If blank, this will default as Unknown.  These parameters populate the categories listed here.    Answer yes if the article is within the scope of WikiProject Royalty and Nobility, otherwise remove this line.   Options are Top, High, Mid, Low or NA.  If blank, this will default as Unknown.  These parameters populate the categories listed here.    Answer yes if the article is within the scope of the science and academia work group, otherwise remove this line.   Options are Top, High, Mid, Low or NA.  If blank, this will default as Unknown.  These parameters populate the categories listed here.    Answer yes if the article is in the scope of the sports and games work group, otherwise remove this line.   Options are Top, High, Mid, Low or NA.  If blank, this will default as Unknown.  These parameters populate the categories listed here.   Maintenance parameters    Answer yes if the page needs immediate attention, otherwise remove this line.  This parameter populates :Category:Biography articles needing attention.  Additional categories will be populated if one or more work groups are specified.    Answer yes to request that a photograph or picture of the subject be added to the article, otherwise remove this line.  This parameter populates :Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of people or relevant subcategories if one or more work groups are specified.    Answer yes if the article needs an infobox, otherwise remove this line.  Remember that infoboxes are not suitable for all articles, and can overwhelm short articles.  This parameter populates :Category:Biography articles without infoboxes.  Additional categories will be populated if one or more work groups are specified.    Answer yes if the article needs persondata, otherwise remove this line.  This parameter populates :Category:Biography articles without persondata.  Additional categories will be populated if one or more work groups are specified.    Answer yes if the article needs a filmography section, otherwise remove this line.  This parameter populates :Category:Actors and filmmakers work group articles needing filmographies.  Can only be used if .    Answer yes if the article needs a discography section, otherwise remove this line.  This parameter populates :Category:Musicians work group articles needing discographies.  Can only be used if .    If the article was previously a WikiProject Biography Collaboration, set this variable as a date (e.g. 1 June - 14 June 2006), otherwise remove this line.  This parameter populates :Category:Past Biography collaborations.    Answer yes if the page is currently nominated for peer review by WikiProject Biography, otherwise remove this line.  This parameter populates :Category:Requests for Biography peer review.    Answer yes if the article has received a peer review from WikiProject Biography per the option above, otherwise remove this line.  This parameter populates :Category:Old requests for Biography peer review.    Answer pass if the article has passed an A-Class review, or fail if the article has failed a review, otherwise remove this line.   populates :Category:Successful requests for biography A-Class review.   populates :Category:Failed requests for biography A-Class review.  Please note that the A-Class review department of WikiProject Biography is currently inactive.  This parameter cannot be used to request a new review.   Listas    This parameter, which is the equivalent of the DEFAULTSORT sortkey that should be placed on all biographical articles, is a sortkey for the article talk page (e.g. for Elvis Presley, , so that the talk page will show up in the P's and not the E's of the various assessment and administrative categories).  This is important because it is one source used by those who set DEFAULTSORT on the article; consider also setting the DEFAULTSORT for the article when setting this parameter.  For more information about this, please see Wikipedia:Categorization of people#Ordering names in a category.  If undefined, this parameter populates :Category:Biography articles without listas parameter.   Template layout    Answer yes to display a small version of the template aligned along the right side of the page (as opposed to at the top), otherwise remove this line.   Special  The following paramaters should not normally be used.   Answer yes if, and only if, the article is listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Core biographies.  This parameter populates the categories listed here.    Answer no if, and only if, a banner is being used for demonstration or testing purposes, to prevent unnecessary or undesirable categorization.  Category:WikiProject Biography templates