Template:Citation Style documentation/url: Difference between revisions

** <b id="csdoc_accessdate">access-date</b>: Full date when the content pointed to by '''url''' was last verified to support the text in the article; do not wikilink; requires '''url'''; use the same format as other access and archive dates in the citations.{{r|date|group=date}} ''Not required for linked documents that do not change.'' For example, '''access-date''' is required for online sources, such as personal websites, that do not have a publication date; see [[WP:CITEWEB]]. Access dates are not required for links to published research papers, published books, or news articles with publication dates. Note that '''access-date''' is the date that the URL was found to be working and to support the text being cited. Can be [[Help:Citation Style 1/accessdate|hidden or styled]] by registered editors. Alias: '''accessdate'''.

** <b id="csdoc_archiveurl">archive-url</b>: The URL of an [[Web archiving|archived]] copy of a web page if the original URL is no longer available. Typically used to refer to services such as [[WebCite]] {{crossref|(see [[Wikipedia:Using WebCite]])}} and [[Internet Archive]] {{crossref|(see [[Wikipedia:Using the Wayback Machine]])}}; requires '''archive-date''' and '''url'''. By default (overridden by {{para|dead-url|no}}) the archived link is displayed first, with the original link at the end. Alias: '''archiveurl'''.

*** <b id="csdoc_deadurl">dead-url</b>: the default value of this optional parameter, if omitted, is {{para|dead-url|yes}}. Equivalent values are <var>y</var> or <var>true</var>. When the URL is still live, but pre-emptively archived, then set {{para|dead-url|no}}; this changes the display order, with the title retaining the original link and the archive linked at the end. When the original URL has been usurped for the purposes of spam, advertising, or is otherwise unsuitable, setting {{para|dead-url|unfit}} or {{para|dead-url|usurped}} suppresses display of the original URL (but {{para|url}} is still required). Alias: '''deadurl'''.

** <b id="csdoc_template doc demo">template-doc-demo</b>: The archive parameters will be error-checked to ensure that all the required parameters are included, or else {{tl|citation error}} is invoked. With errors, main, help and template pages are placed into one of the subcategories of [[:Category:Articles with incorrect citation syntax]]. Set {{para|template-doc-demo|true}} to disable categorization; mainly used for documentation where the error is demonstrated. Alias: '''no-cat'''.