Template:CiteNews/doc

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Template:CiteNews invokes function newsref in Module:References using Lua.

Usage

{{CiteNews|url=|title=|newsdate=|quote=|notes=|name=}}

url

The full URL to the news post, including the https://. An archive of past news posts can be found here.

title

The title of the news post, found between the two arrow buttons at the top. If the title matches one of the pagenames in the Update namespace (and the url is also provided), it will instead link to the wiki news post as the first link, and the original news post as second.

newsdate

The date the news update was posted. Found underneath the news post title.

quote

A quote of what was said inside the news post.

author

The author of the news update. Usually this should not be changed.

Standard parameters

The following parameters are standard across all citation templates.

notes

Optional. This parameter allows you to add text beginning one space after the end of the citation. Having no formatting (meaning you will have to format it yourself), this area can be used for anything you require.

name

Optional. If you want to use this reference more than once, you must name it the first time you use it, then whenever you want to use it again, add {{NamedRef|name}} wherever you want it to re-appear.

group

Optional. This can be used to put the reference into a specific group, to separate it from other types of reference. See here for more on reference groups.

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The following information is used by extensions and applications, such as VisualEditor, to help users implement this template onto pages. Please ensure that it is up-to-date. Used to create a reference to a Old School RuneScape website newspost. Template parameters This template prefers inline formatting of parameters. Parameter Description Type Status author author The author of the newspost. This parameter should only be filled if the newspost has not been authored by the Old School team. Example String optional URL url The URL of the newspost Example https://secure.runescape.com/m=news/new-client-update-clue-scroll-helper?oldschool=1 URL required title title Newspost's title Example New Client Update: Clue Scroll Helper Line required newsdate newsdate The date the newspost was published (DD Month YYYY) Example 8 April 2020 Date required quote quote Text being quoted from the newspost. String optional name name The name of the reference (to use more than once) Example jmodtweet String optional group group The group to add the reference to Example group1 String optional