Template:New York Times topic

{{{name}}} collected news and commentary at The New York Times

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Template:New York Times topic generates an external link to a topic page at The New York Times website. It is intended for use in the external links section of an article.

Usage

Unnamed parameters (old ID)

{{New York Times topic | ID }}

{{New York Times topic | ID | NAME }}

Named parameters (old ID)

{{New York Times topic | id= ID }}

{{New York Times topic | id= ID | name= NAME }}

Named parameters (new ID)

{{New York Times topic | new_id= ID }}

{{New York Times topic | new_id= ID | name= NAME }}

Using Wikidata property (P3221)

{{New York Times topic}}

{{New York Times topic | name= NAME }}

Instructions

1. Find a New York Times topic page. The URL will need to look like https://www.nytimes.com/topic/XXXXXX (formerly http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/XXXXXX/index.html) where XXXXXX is the URL directory path portion to be used. The former URL uses a different string for XXXXXX than the current URL (see examples below).
2. Provide the URL path portion as the template's first parameter. Do not include any leading or trailing slash.
3. Provide an optional name as the second parameter. If no name is provided for the second parameter, the template will use the name of the Wikipedia article.

Examples

One parameter

Former URL (redirects to current URL)

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/t/taylor_paul_dance_co/index.html

Current URL

https://www.nytimes.com/topic/organization/paul-taylor-dance-company

Usage

* {{New York Times topic | organizations/t/taylor_paul_dance_co }}

* {{New York Times topic | id= organizations/t/taylor_paul_dance_co }}

* {{New York Times topic | new_id= organization/paul-taylor-dance-company }}

Output

• New York Times topic collected news and commentary at The New York Times
• New York Times topic collected news and commentary at The New York Times
• New York Times topic collected news and commentary at The New York Times

Two parameters

Former URL (redirects to current URL)

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/r/susan_e_rice/index.html

Current URL

https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/susan-rice

Usage

* {{New York Times topic | people/r/susan_e_rice | Susan Rice }}

* {{New York Times topic | id= people/r/susan_e_rice | name= Susan Rice }}

* {{New York Times topic | new_id= person/susan-rice | name= Susan Rice }}

Output

• Susan Rice collected news and commentary at The New York Times
• Susan Rice collected news and commentary at The New York Times
• Susan Rice collected news and commentary at The New York Times

No ID in template or Wikidata

Usage

* {{New York Times topic}}

Output

• New York Times topic collected news and commentary at The New York Times

TemplateData

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 New York Times topic

<templatedata> { "description": "This template generates an external link to a topic page at The Guardian website. It is intended for use in the external links section of an article.", "params": { "id": { "label": "Old ID", "aliases" : [ "1" ], "description": "The \"id\" parameter (or unnamed parameter \"1\") may be used to specify the ID portion of the former URL (which redirects to the current URL). Example: people/r/susan_e_rice is the ID in http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/r/susan_e_rice/index.html. This parameter is optional when using the \"new_id\" parameter or if Wikidata property P3221 exists, but required if not.", "type": "string", "required": false }, "new_id": { "label": "New ID", "description": "The \"new_id\" parameter may be used to specify the ID portion of the current URL. Example: person/susan-rice is the ID in https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/susan-rice. This parameter is optional when using the \"id\" parameter or unnamed parameter \"1\" or if Wikidata property P3221 exists, but required if not.", "type": "string", "required": false, "default": "Wikidata property P3221" }, "name": { "label": "Name", "aliases" : [ "2" ], "description": "The \"name\" parameter (or unnamed parameter \"2\") may be used to specify the topic name, which is displayed in the link text. This parameter is optional; it defaults to the Wikipedia article name, without any disambiguation.", "type": "string", "required": false, "default": "New York Times topic" } }, "paramOrder": [ "id", "new_id", "name" ] } </templatedata>

Tracking categories

ID parameter does not exist

• Category:New York Times topic template missing ID and not in Wikidata (0)
• Category:New York Times topic template using Wikidata (0)

See also

• {{Guardian topic}} – topic page at The Guardian
• {{Aljazeera topic}} – topic page at Al Jazeera English
• {{Bloomberg topic}} – topic page at Bloomberg News