Template:Cite newsgroup

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Error on call to Template:Cite newsgroup: parameter title required.

Parameters are taken mostly from the message header fields (see RFC 2822, RFC 1036) as follows:

  • title, from Subject header field (required)
  • author, from From header field (or from signature block)
  • date, from Date header field (or from NNTP-Posting-Date field)
  • newsgroup, from Newsgroups header field
  • id, from Message-ID header field
  • url (on Google Groups or other newsgroup archive, if possible)
    • accessdate for the above URL


[edit] Usage summary

Horizontal format

{{cite newsgroup |title= |author= |date= |newsgroup= |id= |url= |accessdate= 2008-06-12 }}

Vertical format
{{cite newsgroup 
 | title = 
 | author = 
 | date = 
 | newsgroup = 
 | id = 
 | url = 
 | accessdate = 2008-06-12
}}

[edit] Examples

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