Template:Hansard/doc

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

This template employs intricate features of template syntax.

You are encouraged to familiarise yourself with its setup and parser functions before editing the template. If your edit causes unexpected problems, please undo it quickly, as this template may appear on a large number of pages.
You can conduct experiments, and should test all major changes, in either , the general template sandbox, or your user space before changing anything here.

Usage[edit]

{{Hansard|URL|Title (optional)|House (optional)|Access-date (optional)}}

This template is used for auto generating a citation when using Historic Hansard (UK Parliament) as a reference. It will determine the date from the url and generate a title from the url (both of which are stored in the url). Only part of the url needs to be entered into the parameter (from the year onwards).

Parameters[edit]

|URL=address, mandatory, defines the url portion from the year onwards (can also be specified as first parameter without the url=)
|title=TITLE, optional, specifies a manual title (default title is taken from the url)
|house=NAME, optional, defines whether it relates to commons, lords or written (default commons)

See the primary Hansard citation template for additional parameters (note that the "date" parameter is auto-generated and cannot be overwritten).

Example[edit]

If the url is https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1914/aug/07/royal-assent, only the part from "1914" should be entered. For example,

{{Hansard|url=1914/aug/07/royal-assent |access-date=1 January 2010}}

results in

"Royal Assent (1914)". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). House of Commons. 7 August 1914. Retrieved 1 January 2010.