Template:Cite newsgroup/doc

This is a documentation subpage for Template:Cite newsgroup.
It contains usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page.

{{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