Template:Include-USGov

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This template is designed to be a meta-template, used to construct U.S. Government attribution message templates. It could be used directly in an article.

Parameters

• agency (required) - name of agency (or reference source) that produced material
• url (optional) - URL of reference
• policy (optional) - URL of re-use policy of agency or reference source
• comment (optional) - free field that produces parenthesized comment at end
• article (optional) - the title of the reference
• author (optional) - author of reference
• accessdate (optional) - date page last checked
• source (optional) - free field at end at shuts off most other arguments: useful for inline use of {{cite web}}

Usage

Code	Produces	Comments
{{Include-USGov |agency=United States Department}}	This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the United States Department.	Minimal usage: templates that call this one should pass in optional arguments.
{{Include-USGov |agency=United States Department |policy=http://www.agency.gov/policy.html}}	This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the United States Department.	Replace internal wikilink about generic re-use to specific agency policy
{{Include-USGov |agency=United States government |comment=comment can have [[link]]s}}	This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the United States government (comment can have links).	comment is a free field that produces a parenthesized comment at end, agency should auto-wikilink
{{Include-USGov |agency=United States Department |url=http://www.agency.gov/}}	This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the United States Department.	Agency name becomes external link
{{Include-USGov |agency=United States Department |article=Reference document}}	This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Department document "Reference document".	With article argument, template refers to specific document
{{Include-USGov |agency=United States Department |article=Reference document |url=http://www.agency.gov/doc.html}}	This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Department document "Reference document".	With article argument, url becomes external link to specific document
{{Include-USGov |agency=United States Department |article=Reference document |url=http://www.agency.gov/doc.html |author=John Q. Public}}	This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Department document "Reference document" by John Q. Public.	Author can be added for use in inline citation
{{Include-USGov |agency=United States Department |article=Reference document |url=http://www.agency.gov/doc.html |accessdate=2008-08-08}}	This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Department document "Reference document" (retrieved on 2008-08-08).	Accessdate can be added, also
{{Include-USGov |agency=United States Department |policy=http://www.agency.gov/policy.html |article=Reference document |url=http://www.agency.gov/doc.html |author=John Q. Public |accessdate=2008-08-08 |comment=comment can have [[link]]s}}	This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Department document "Reference document" by John Q. Public (retrieved on 2008-08-08) (comment can have links).	All parameters can work together
{{Include-USGov |agency=United States government |policy=http://www.whitehouse.gov |author=Arglebargle IV |article=On Boggies |accessdate=Third Age |source=Use cite template here}}	This article incorporates public domain material from the United States government document: Use cite template here	Source parameter shuts down most arguments, leaves free field at end for citation template
{{Include-USGov |agency=United States Department |source={{cite book|first=John |last=Smith |title=Battle of Hastings}} }}	This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Department document: Smith, John. Battle of Hastings.	Example of source usage

Related pages

• Sandbox for experimental edits
• Test to see if experiments worked

Templates created using Include-USGov

• {{AFHRA}} –  This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the Air Force Historical Research Agency.
• {{Bioguide}} – This article incorporates facts obtained from the public domain Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.

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