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Contents 1 Documentation 1.1 Purpose 1.2 Usage 2 Discussion 2.1 Distributor 2.2 Optional fields 2.3 New parameter names 2.4 Use for audio too? 2.5 Television series 2.6 Citing episodes 2.7 extra info for url

[edit] Documentation

[edit] Purpose

Template to cite videos, films and documentaries based on APA style guide 5 using this as a reference. pamri 14:36, July 28, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Usage

See →template page.

[edit] Discussion

[edit] Distributor

Thank you, I'll put the template in Wikipedia:Cite sources. But one question: where did you get the Distributor location and the Distributors name of that documentary? CG 14:30, July 29, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Optional fields

This template currently requires all fields; could most be made optional? jareha ^(comments) 19:21, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] New parameter names

I'm going to migrate all calls to the new parameter names per Trödel's proposal (note that I additionaly did lowercase names for all params). Currently the old param names still work, but I will remove them once all calls have been migrated to the new param names. This shouldn't be such a big deal because this template has not such a high use count. --Ligulem 12:19, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Done. --Ligulem 18:22, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Use for audio too?

This template would be appropriate for audio recordings too. [1] Would adding a Template:cite audio that redirects here be the right thing to do, or is there something like that already hiding somewhere? --iMeowbot~Meow 05:09, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Television series

I've changed "TV-Series" to "Television series", per the example here. I think it looks more encyclopedic to avoid the colloquialism "TV" anyway. —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 09:13, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Citing episodes

It would be great if this template could be modified so that individual episodes of a television series can be cited properly. Template:Cite episode does exist, but appears not to be very close to APA format (see here for an example of what it should be, I think). Either this template or that one should be able to produce something like the example at the link. I don't know anything about template syntax, so I can't do it myself. —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 09:50, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] extra info for url

If you allow a url parameter, you should also allow an accessdate parameter and a format parameter. --Arctic Gnome 23:58, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Nevermind, I figured out how to add them. --Arctic Gnome 00:15, 30 November 2006 (UTC)