Template:Cite tweet

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A template for citing tweets posted on Twitter.

Usage

Copy a blank version to use. All parameter names must be in lowercase. Use the "|" (pipe) character between each parameter. Delete unused parameters to avoid clutter in the edit window. Some samples may include the current date. If the date is not current, then the page.

Required parameters only, in horizontal format

{{cite tweet |user= |number= |date= |title= }}

Full parameter set in horizontal format

{{cite tweet |author= |author-link= |user= |number= |date= |title= |script-title= |trans-title= |language= |retweet= |access-date= |archive-url= |archive-date= |dead-url=}}

' When known, the author's real name should be specified in the |author= parameter. If their real name is not known, then the tweet is probably not an acceptable usage of a self-published source.

Examples

{{Cite tweet |user=Pigsonthewing |number=564068436633214977 |date = 7 February 2015 |title=This is an example tweet. Hello, Wikipedians! }}

Pigsonthewing (7 February 2015). "This is an example tweet. Hello, Wikipedians!" (Tweet). {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)

{{Cite tweet |user=Pigsonthewing |author=Andy Mabbett |number=564068436633214977 |date = 7 February 2015 |title=This is an example tweet. Hello, Wikipedians! }}

Andy Mabbett [Pigsonthewing] (7 February 2015). "This is an example tweet. Hello, Wikipedians!" (Tweet). {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)

{{Cite tweet |user=Pigsonthewing |author=Andy Mabbett |number=564068436633214977 |date = 7 February 2015 |title=This is an example tweet. Hello, Wikipedians! |retweet=Wikimedia Foundation [Wikimedia]}}

Andy Mabbett [Pigsonthewing] (7 February 2015). "This is an example tweet. Hello, Wikipedians!" (Tweet). Retweeted by Wikimedia Foundation [Wikimedia]. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)

Error detection

• The parameters |user=, |number=, |date=, and |title= are required. If omitted or left blank, errors will be reported. For example:

  {{Cite tweet|title=I'm an incomplete citation!}}

  "I'm an incomplete citation!" (Tweet). {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)

• The tweet URL depends on |user= and |number=; if either or both are missing, the URL defaults to https://twitter.com/
• The template also checks for parameters that are unsupported (e.g. misspellings of parameter names).
• Errors are tracked in Category:Cite tweet templates with errors

Parameters

This is the TemplateData documentation for this template used by VisualEditor and other tools; see the monthly parameter usage report for this template.

TemplateData for Cite tweet

<templatedata> { "params": { "number": { "label": "number", "description": "Numerical ID of the tweet", "type": "number", "required": true }, "user": { "label": "username", "description": "Twitter account name, without the @", "type": "string", "required": true }, "title": { "label": "tweet", "description": "Entire content of the tweet, including hashtags (#), at signs (@), and links", "type": "string", "required": true }, "author": { "label": "author", "description": "Author's real name, if known. If not known, then the tweet is probably not an acceptable usage of a self-published source (see WP:SPS)", "suggested": true }, "author-link": { "aliases": [ "authorlink" ], "label": "author's article", "description": "Title of existing Wikipedia article about the author" }, "retweet": { "label": "retweeted by", "description": "The reliable source who retweeted the tweet, if the original tweeter is not anyone particularly notable. May be wikilinked." }, "date": { "label": "date", "description": "date of the tweet; do not wikilink; do not include time. Note: a tweet's timestamp is in your local timezone, and may need to be adjusted to UTC.", "required": true }, "access-date": { "aliases": [ "accessdate" ], "label": "access date", "description": "The full date when the tweet was accessed; do not wikilink" }, "language": { "label": "language", "description": "The language in which the tweet is written, if not in English.", "example": "fr", "type": "string" }, "archive-url": { "label": "archive URL", "aliases": [ "archiveurl" ], "description": "The URL of an archived copy of a web page, if or in case the URL becomes unavailable; requires 'archive-date'", "type": "string" }, "archive-date": { "label": "archive date", "aliases": [ "archivedate" ], "description": "Date when the original URL was archived; do not wikilink", "type": "string" }, "dead-url": { "label": "dead URL", "aliases": [ "deadurl" ], "description": "If set to 'no', the title display is adjusted; useful for when the URL is archived preemptively but still live", "type": "string" }, "script-title": { "label": "script tweet", "description": "For tweets in languages that do not use a Latin-based alphabet (Arabic, Chinese, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, etc). Prefix with two-character ISO639-1 language code followed by a colon, e.g. for Japanese use: ja:...", "example": "ja:東京タワー" }, "trans-title": { "label": "translated tweet", "description": "An English language translation, if the tweet cited is in a foreign language; use of 'language' parameter is recommended" } }, "description": "A template for citing tweets posted on Twitter", "format": null } </templatedata>

Redirects

1. {{Cite twitter}}

See also

• {{Twitter status}}