Template:Cite tweet
This template can be found in the Cite menu from the Visual editor
Examples[edit source]
{{cite tweet |title=New research shows... |last=Smith | first = Karen |authorlink= |user=ksmith |date=2022-10-11
|url=https://twitter.com/ksmith/23356}}
→Karen Smith [@ksmith] (October 11, 2022). "New research shows..." (Tweet) – via Twitter.
{{cite tweet |title=Citing tweet without url... |last=Smith | first = Karen |authorlink= |user=ksmith |date=2022-10-11
|url= }}
→Karen Smith [@ksmith] (October 11, 2022). "Citing tweet without url..." (Tweet) – via Twitter. Missing or empty |url=
(help) Missing or empty |id or url= (help)
Parameters[edit source]
Parameter | Value |
---|---|
title | required |
trans-title | |
language | |
author | required unless last is set |
last, first, author-link | |
user | user's twitter handle, without the @ |
url | required |
others | Retweeted by |
date | required |
via | |
type | Tweet |
location | |
access-date | |
archive-date | |
archive-url | |
url-status |
See also[edit source]
- {{Tweet}} - displays a tweet
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Formats a citation to a tweet using the provided information such as URL and title. Used only for sources that are not correctly described by the specific citation templates for books, journals, news sources, etc.
Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
---|---|---|---|---|
URL | url URL | The URL or link where the tweet can be found. Requires schemes of the type "http://..." or maybe even the protocol relative scheme "//..."
| String | required |
Tweet title | title | Tweet title, or message for short tweets. | Line | required |
twitter username not including @ symbol | user username from | The name of the author; don't wikilink, use 'authorlink'
| Line | required |
Last name or organization | last last1 author author1 author1-last author-last surname1 author-last1 subject1 surname author-last subject | The name of the author; don't wikilink, use 'authorlink' | Line | suggested |
First name | first given author-first first1 given1 author-first1 author1-first | Given or first name, middle names, or initials of the author; don't wikilink, use 'authorlink' | Line | suggested |
Author link | authorlink author-link subjectlink subject-link authorlink1 author-link1 author1-link subjectlink1 author1link subject-link1 subject1-link subject1link | Title of existing MEpedia article about the author; can suffix with a numeral to add additional authors | Page name | suggested |
Source date | date | Full date when the tweet was sent; do not wikilink. Do not include time. | Date | required |
Quote | quote | Content of tweet, enclosed in quotes; must include terminating punctuation | String | suggested |
Publisher | publisher | Name of the publisher; may be wikilinked. Having both 'Publisher' and 'Website' is redundant in most cases.
| String | optional |
Location of publication | location | Geographical place of publication; usually not wikilinked; omit when the publication name includes place; alias of 'place' | String | optional |
At | at | May be used instead of 'page' or 'pages' where a page number is inappropriate or insufficient | String | optional |
Language | language | The language in which the source is written, if not English; use the full language name; do not use icons or templates | String | optional |
Script title | script-title | For titles 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. For Japanese use: |script-title=ja:... | String | optional |
Translated title | trans-title trans_title | An English language title, if the source cited is in a foreign language; 'language' is recommended | String | optional |
id | id | Tweet id, if url is not used | String | optional |
URL access | url-access | When set to subscription, displays '(subscription required)' to indicate an online source that requires subscription. Other values are 'registration' and 'limited'
| String | optional |
Archive URL | archive-url archiveurl | The URL of an archived copy of a web page, if or in case the URL becomes unavailable; requires 'archive-date' | String | suggested |
Archive date | archive-date archivedate | Date when the original URL was archived; do not wikilink | String | suggested |
URL status | url-status deadurl urlstatus | If set to 'dead', or 'unsurped', the title display is adjusted; useful for when the URL is archived preemptively but still live
| String | suggested |
URL access date | access-date accessdate | The full date when the original URL was accessed; do not wikilink | Date | suggested |
Published via | via | Name of the entity hosting the original copy of the work, if different from the publisher. This entity is committed not to alter the work. GitHub, SourceForge, CodePlex, YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion and Netflix are examples of service dedicated to acting on behalf of the publisher, but Archive.org, Wikimedia Commons and grc.com have done this on certain occasions.
| String | optional |
Format | format | Format of the work referred to by 'url'; examples: PDF, DOC, XLS; do not specify HTML | String | optional |
Type | type | Additional information about the media type of the source; format in sentence case | String | optional |
Ref | ref | An anchor identifier; can be made the target of wikilinks to full references; special value 'harv' generates an anchor suitable for the harv template | String | optional |