Template:Metacritic film/doc

This template generates an external link to a page for a film title at the Metacritic website.

For a made-for-tv movie, miniseries, or television series, use {{Metacritic television}}

For a music album, use {{Metacritic album}}

For a video game, use {{Metacritic video game}}

Usage

One parameter:

{{Metacritic film | ID }}

{{Metacritic film | id= ID }}

Two parameters:

{{Metacritic film | ID | TITLE }}

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

Instructions

1. Go to Metacritic.com and search for the film title. Click on the correct link to go to the film's page. The URL should look like this:

   http://www.metacritic.com/movie/film-name

2. Copy only the portion after /movie/ and add one of the following to the External links section of the article:

   * {{Metacritic film | film-name }}

   * {{Metacritic film | id= film-name }}

   * {{Metacritic film | film-name | Film Name }}

   * {{Metacritic film | id= film-name | title= Film Name }}

   where film-name is the film's unique ID string as copied from the URL

   and Film Name is the title of the film (this is optional, if not specified it defaults to the Wikipedia article name).

Examples

http://www.metacritic.com/movie/the-terminator

One parameter:

1. {{Metacritic film | the-terminator }}

   Metacritic film/doc at Metacritic

1. {{Metacritic film | id= the-terminator }}

   Metacritic film/doc at Metacritic

Two parameters:

1. {{Metacritic film | the-terminator | The Terminator }}

   The Terminator at Metacritic

1. {{Metacritic film | id= the-terminator | title= The Terminator }}

   The Terminator at Metacritic

Template data

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TemplateData for Metacritic film

This template generates an external link to a page for a film title at the Metacritic website.

Template parameters

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
ID	id 1	ID string from the URL.	String	required
Title	title 2	Title to be used as the link text (the template automatically displays it in italics). If not specified it defaults to the article's {{PAGENAME}}, without disambiguation.	String	optional