Template:Metacritic album/doc

For inline prose, see Template:Metacritic album prose.

Template:Metacritic album displays an external link to a web page for a music or album title at the Metacritic website.

Usage

Unnamed parameters

{{Metacritic album | ID }}

{{Metacritic album | ID | TITLE }}

Named parameters

{{Metacritic album | id= ID }}

{{Metacritic album | id= ID | title= TITLE }}

{{Metacritic album | id= ID | title= TITLE | qid= WIKIDATA ITEM ID }}

Using Wikidata property Metacritic ID (P1712)

{{Metacritic album}}

{{Metacritic album | title= TITLE }}

Using Wikidata property Metacritic ID (P1712) with qid

{{Metacritic album | qid= WIKIDATA ITEM ID}}

{{Metacritic album | title= TITLE | qid= WIKIDATA ITEM ID}}

Instructions

1. Search on Metacritic.com for the title you want.
2. Click on the correct link to go to the album's page.
3. The page URL for an album should look like https://www.metacritic.com/music/TTTTTTT, with the TTTTTT being the album's title as used in the MetaCritic link (usually the album title in lower case with hyphens substituted for spaces).
4. Copy ONLY that text that follows https://www.metacritic.com/music/
5. Add to the external links section the text:

{{Metacritic album|id=TTTTTTT|title=Example}}

1. You may define an access date also, using the following:

{{Metacritic album|id=TTTTTTT|title=Example|accessdate=YYYY-MM-DD}}

The title field is completely optional, and will default to the Wikipedia article title if left out.

accessdate is also an optional parameter, this will simply not be shown if not supplied.

Examples

When listing in a bulleted external links section, remember to add an asterisk (*) before the template for the bullet.

Unnamed parameters

URL

https://www.metacritic.com/music/my-best-friend-is-you/kate-nash

Usage

* {{Metacritic album | my-best-friend-is-you | My Best Friend Is You }}

Output

• My Best Friend Is You at Metacritic

Named parameters

URL

https://www.metacritic.com/music/live-at-reading

Usage

* {{Metacritic album | id= live-at-reading | title= Live At Reading }}

* {{Metacritic album | title= Live At Reading | qid= Q1990678 }}

Output

• Live At Reading at Metacritic
• Live At Reading at Metacritic

No ID in template or Wikidata

Usage

* {{Metacritic album}}

Output

Tracking categories

The following are also used by {{Metacritic film}}, {{Metacritic television}} and {{Metacritic video game}}:

• Category:Metacritic ID not in Wikidata (5)
• Category:Metacritic ID different from Wikidata (3)
• Category:Metacritic ID same as Wikidata (22)

See also

• For a film, use {{Metacritic film}}
• For a television series or made-for-TV movie, use {{Metacritic television}}
• For a video game, use {{Metacritic video game}}
• {{MC ref}} to easily make standardized references to Metacritic
• {{MCalbum}} to easily make standardized text for album articles concerning Metacritic scores.