Template:Guardian topic/doc

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/doc 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

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

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

• Category:Guardian topic ID not in Wikidata (5)
• Category:Guardian topic ID different from Wikidata (0)
• Category:Guardian topic ID same as Wikidata (22)

ID parameter does not exist

• Category:Guardian topic template missing ID and not in Wikidata (0)
• Category:Guardian topic template using Wikidata (181)

See also

• {{New York Times topic}} – topic page at The New York Times
• {{Bloomberg topic}} – topic page at Bloomberg News
• {{Aljazeera topic}} – topic page at Al Jazeera English