Template:Cite newsgroup

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

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{{cite newsgroup
  | title = 
  | author = 
  | date = 
  | newsgroup = 
  | id = 
  | url = 
  | accessdate = {{CURRENTYEAR}}-{{CURRENTMONTH}}-{{CURRENTDAY2}}
 }}

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

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