Template:Guardian topic/sandbox

{{{name}}} collected news and commentary at The Guardian

This is the template sandbox page for Template:Guardian topic (diff).
See also the companion subpage for test cases.

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This template uses Lua:

Template:Guardian topic generates an external link to a topic page at The Guardian website. It is intended for use in the external links section of an article.

Usage

Unnamed parameters: {{Guardian topic | ID }}; {{Guardian topic | ID | NAME }}

Named parameters: {{Guardian topic | id= ID }}; {{Guardian topic | id= ID | name= NAME }}

Using Wikidata property Guardian topic ID (P3106): {{Guardian topic}}; {{Guardian topic | name= NAME }}

Instructions

Provide the URL path (after the first level) as the first parameter, and an optional name as the second parameter. If no ID is provided, the template will attempt to fetch the value from Wikidata. If no name is provided for the second parameter, the template will use the name of the Wikipedia article.

Examples

One parameter

URL: https://www.theguardian.com/music/aretha-franklin

Usage: * {{Guardian topic | music/aretha-franklin }}; * {{Guardian topic | id= music/aretha-franklin }}

Output

Guardian topic/sandbox collected news and commentary at The Guardian

Two parameters

URL: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/bill-gates

Usage: * {{Guardian topic | us-news/bill-gates | Bill Gates }}; * {{Guardian topic | id= us-news/bill-gates | name= Bill Gates }}

Output

Bill Gates collected news and commentary at The Guardian

No ID in template or Wikidata

Usage: * {{Guardian topic}}

Output

{{Guardian topic}} template missing ID and not present in Wikidata.

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. See a monthly parameter usage report for Template:Guardian topic in articles based on its TemplateData.

TemplateData for Guardian topic

This template generates an external link to a topic page at The Guardian website. It is intended for use in the external links section of an article.

Template parameters[Edit template data]
Parameter		Description	Type	Status
ID	`1` `id`	The "id" parameter (or unnamed parameter "1") may be used to specify the ID portion of the URL. Example: music/aretha-franklin is the ID in https://www.theguardian.com/music/aretha-franklin. This parameter is optional if Wikidata property P3106 exists, but required if not. Default Wikidata property P3106	String	optional
Name	`2` `name`	The "name" parameter (or unnamed parameter "2") may be used to specify the topic name, which is displayed in the link text. This parameter is optional; it defaults to the Wikipedia article name, without any disambiguation. Default {{PAGENAMEBASE}}	String	optional

Tracking categories

ID parameter exists

ID parameter does not exist