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Error on call to Template:Cite newsgroup: parameter title required.
Parameters are taken mostly from the message header fields (see RFC 2822, RFC 1036) as follows:
- title, from Subject header field (required)
- author, from From header field (or from signature block)
- date, from Date header field (or from NNTP-Posting-Date field)
- newsgroup, from Newsgroups header field
- id, from Message-ID header field
- url (on Google Groups or other newsgroup archive, if possible)
- accessdate for the above URL
Usage summary
- Horizontal format
{{cite newsgroup |title= |author= |date= |newsgroup= |id= |url= |accessdate= 2025-01-05 }}
- Vertical format
{{cite newsgroup
| title =
| author =
| date =
| newsgroup =
| id =
| url =
| accessdate = 2025-01-05
}}
Examples
Note
 | This template employs intricate features of template syntax.
You are encouraged to familiarise yourself with its setup and parser functions before editing the template. If your edit causes unexpected problems, please undo it quickly, as this template may appear on a large number of pages. You can conduct experiments, and should test all major changes, in either this template's sandbox, the general template sandbox, or your user space before changing anything here. |