Template:Rotten Tomatoes/sandbox
{{{title}}} at Rotten Tomatoes
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Template:Rotten Tomatoes displays an external link to a page at the Rotten Tomatoes website. It is intended for use in the external links section of an article.
Usage change
Unnamed parameters:
{{Rotten Tomatoes | ID }}{{Rotten Tomatoes | ID | TITLE or NAME }}
Named parameters:
{{Rotten Tomatoes | id= ID }}{{Rotten Tomatoes | id= ID | title= TITLE }}{{Rotten Tomatoes | id= ID | name= NAME }}
Using Wikidata property P1258:
{{Rotten Tomatoes}}{{Rotten Tomatoes | title= TITLE }}{{Rotten Tomatoes | name= NAME }}
Instructions change
- Go to RottenTomatoes.com and search for a title or person. On the results page, click the appropriate link.
- The page for a movie review should have a URL (shown in your browser's address bar) like this:
- https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/<ID>
- where
m/<ID>is Rotten Tomatoes' ID for this page. For instance, the page for The Time Travelers (1964) is:- https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1021517-time_travelers
- Note however, that the ID for many movies will simply be their complete title in all-lowercase, without punctuation, and with underscores replacing spaces. For instance, the page for To Kill A Mockingbird (1962) is:
- https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/to_kill_a_mockingbird
- Add the following text to the "External links" section of your movie article:
- * {{Rotten Tomatoes|m/<ID>|<TITLE>}}
- replacing <ID> with the ID you found and <TITLE> with the title as you wish it to appear. For example:
- * {{Rotten Tomatoes|m/incredibles|The Incredibles}}
- will result in the following:
- See the examples below for links to Rotten Tomatoes web pages about TV series, franchises, celebrities, and critics.
Examples change
- Movie or film (ID without prefix, retained for compatibility)
- https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1021517_time_travelers
* {{Rotten Tomatoes | 1021517-time_travelers | The Time Travelers }}
- Movie or film (ID with m/ prefix)
- https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/xmen
* {{Rotten Tomatoes | m/xmen | X-Men }}
- TV series (ID with tv/ prefix)
- https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/legion
* {{Rotten Tomatoes | tv/legion | Legion }}
- Franchise (ID with franchise/ prefix)
- https://www.rottentomatoes.com/franchise/x-men
* {{Rotten Tomatoes | franchise/x-men | X-Men: Movies and TV Shows }}
- Movie/TV person (ID with celebrity/ prefix)
- https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/luc_besson
* {{Rotten Tomatoes | celebrity/luc_besson | Luc Besson }}
- Movie/TV critic (ID with critic/ prefix)
- https://www.rottentomatoes.com/critic/richard-brody
* {{Rotten Tomatoes | critic/richard-brody | Richard Brody }}
TemplateData change
TemplateData for Rotten Tomatoes
This template generates an external link to a page for a film title at the Rotten Tomatoes website.
| Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID | 1 id | The ID portion of the URL. Examples: 1021517_time_travelers or m/1021517_time_travelers, tv/legion, franchise/x-men, celebrity/luc_besson, critic/richard-brody. This parameter is optional if Wikidata property P1258 exists, but required if not.
| String | optional |
| Title or name | 2 title name | Title of movie/film or TV series, or name of person, used as the link text. The template uses italic type for titles (IDs with m/, tv/, franchise/ prefix) and non-italic for people (IDs with celebrity/ or critic/ prefix). This parameter is optional; it defaults to the Wikipedia article name, without any disambiguation such as "(film)" or "(director)".
| String | optional |