Template:Metacritic album
This template uses the Wikidata property:
Metacritic ID (P1712) (see uses)
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Template:Metacritic album displays an external link to a web page for a music or album title at the Metacritic website.
Usage
- Unnamed parameters
{{Metacritic album | ID }}{{Metacritic album | ID | TITLE }}
- Named parameters
{{Metacritic album | id= ID }}{{Metacritic album | id= ID | title= TITLE }}{{Metacritic album | id= ID | title= TITLE | qid= WIKIDATA ITEM ID }}
- Using Wikidata property Metacritic ID (P1712)
{{Metacritic album}}{{Metacritic album | title= TITLE }}
- Using Wikidata property Metacritic ID (P1712) with qid
{{Metacritic album | qid= WIKIDATA ITEM ID}}{{Metacritic album | title= TITLE | qid= WIKIDATA ITEM ID}}
Instructions
- Search on Metacritic.com for the title you want.
- Click on the correct link to go to the album's page.
- The page URL for an album should look like https://www.metacritic.com/music/TTTTTTT, with the TTTTTT being the album's title as used in the MetaCritic link (usually the album title in lower case with hyphens substituted for spaces).
- Copy ONLY that text that follows https://www.metacritic.com/music/
- Add to the external links section the text:
{{Metacritic album|id=TTTTTTT|title=Example}}
- You may define an access date also, using the following:
{{Metacritic album|id=TTTTTTT|title=Example|accessdate=YYYY-MM-DD}}- The title field is completely optional, and will default to the Wikipedia article title if left out.
- accessdate is also an optional parameter, this will simply not be shown if not supplied.
Examples
When listing in a bulleted external links section, remember to add an asterisk (*) before the template for the bullet.
Unnamed parameters
- Usage
* {{Metacritic album | my-best-friend-is-you | My Best Friend Is You }}
- Output
Named parameters
- Usage
* {{Metacritic album | id= live-at-reading | title= Live At Reading }}* {{Metacritic album | title= Live At Reading | qid= Q1990678 }}
- Output
No ID in template or Wikidata
- Usage
* {{Metacritic album}}
- Output
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- {{Metacritic album}} template missing ID and not present in Wikidata.
Tracking categories
The following are also used by {{Metacritic film}}, {{Metacritic television}} and {{Metacritic video game}}:
- Category:Metacritic ID not in Wikidata (0)
- Category:Metacritic ID different from Wikidata (0)
- Category:Metacritic ID same as Wikidata (0)
See also
- For a film, use {{Metacritic film}}
- For a television series or made-for-TV movie, use {{Metacritic television}}
- For a video game, use {{Metacritic video game}}
- {{MC ref}} to easily make standardized references to Metacritic
- {{MCalbum}} to easily make standardized text for album articles concerning Metacritic scores.