Template:Cite tweet/doc

A template for citing tweets posted on Twitter.

Usage
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When known, the author's real name should be specified in the author parameter. If their real name is not known, then the tweet is probably not an acceptable usage of a self-published source.

Examples
 

 

 

Error detection

 * The parameters user, number, date, and title are . If omitted or left blank, errors will be reported. For example:
 * The tweet URL depends on user and number; if either or both are missing, the URL defaults to https://twitter.com/
 * The template also checks for parameters that are unsupported (e.g. misspellings of parameter names).
 * Errors are tracked in Category:Cite tweet templates with errors
 * The template also checks for parameters that are unsupported (e.g. misspellings of parameter names).
 * Errors are tracked in Category:Cite tweet templates with errors

TemplateData
{	"params": { "number": { "label": "number", "description": "Numerical ID of the tweet", "type": "number", "required": true },		"user": { "label": "username", "description": "Twitter account name, without the @", "type": "string", "required": true },		"title": { "label": "tweet", "description": "Entire content of the tweet, including hashtags (#), at signs (@), and links", "type": "string", "required": true },		"author": { "label": "author", "description": "Author's real name, if known. If not known, then the tweet is probably not an acceptable usage of a self-published source (see WP:SPS)", "suggested": true },		"author-link": { "aliases": [ "authorlink" ],			"label": "author's article", "description": "Title of existing Wikipedia article about the author" },		"retweet": { "label": "retweeted by", "description": "The reliable source who retweeted the tweet, if the original tweeter is not anyone particularly notable. May be wikilinked." },		"date": { "label": "date", "description": "date of the tweet; do not wikilink; do not include time. Note: a tweet's timestamp is in your local timezone, and may need to be adjusted to UTC.", "required": true },		"access-date": { "aliases": [ "accessdate" ],			"label": "access date", "description": "The full date when the tweet was accessed; do not wikilink" },		"language": { "label": "language", "description": "The language in which the tweet is written, if not in English.", "example": "fr", "type": "string" },		"archive-url": { "label": "archive URL", "aliases": [ "archiveurl" ],			"description": "The URL of an archived copy of a web page, if or in case the URL becomes unavailable; requires 'archive-date'", "type": "string" },		"archive-date": { "label": "archive date", "aliases": [ "archivedate" ],			"description": "Date when the original URL was archived; do not wikilink", "type": "string" },		"dead-url": { "label": "dead URL", "aliases": [ "deadurl" ],			"description": "If set to 'no', the title display is adjusted; useful for when the URL is archived preemptively but still live", "type": "string" },		"script-title": { "label": "script tweet", "description": "For tweets in languages that do not use a Latin-based alphabet (Arabic, Chinese, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, etc). Prefix with two-character ISO639-1 language code followed by a colon, e.g. for Japanese use: ja:...", "example": "ja:東京タワー" },		"trans-title": { "label": "translated tweet", "description": "An English language translation, if the tweet cited is in a foreign language; use of 'language' parameter is recommended" },		"link": { "label": "Link to Twitter article?", "description": "Set to \"no\" to not link to the Wikipedia article for Twitter. Useful for preventing overlinking when more than one tweet is cited." }	},	"description": "A template for citing tweets posted on Twitter" }

Redirects

 * 1) Cite twitter