User:Muhandes/Cite certification/doc

Usage

This template creates a {{Cite web}} citation for certification data from different regions. The citation created is as accurate as possible using the parameters given.

Fields

• artist – performing artist or group
• title – title of work
• type – album/single/video
• award – Gold/Platinum/Diamond etc.
• number – number of awards given
• certyear – year in which certification was awarded, used for linking in some cases
• certmonth – month in which certification was awarded, used for linking in some cases
• id – documented where relevant
• recent – documented where relevant
• domestic – documented where relevant
• access-date – date in which the data was accessed
• date – certification date

Usage examples

• To list all Linkin Park titles winning certification in Germany:

{{Cite certification |region=Germany |artist=Linkin Park}}

Produces

"Gold-/Platin-Datenbank (Linkin Park)" (in German). Bundesverband Musikindustrie.

• To list certifications in the United States for Coldplay's A Rush of Blood to the Head (also using access-date):

{{Cite certification |region=United States |artist=Coldplay |title=A Rush of Blood to the Head |access-date=2010-10-29}}

Produces

"American certifications – Coldplay – A Rush of Blood to the Head". Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved 2010-10-29.

• To list Australian certifications for U2's album Achtung Baby, note that although the album was released in 1991 the last certification (to date) was in 1998:

{{Cite certification |region=Australia |type=album |certyear=1998}}

Produces

"ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 1998 Albums" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association.

Supported regions

Region	Fields	Notes
Argentina	title artist type=album/video	Information for old singles and compilation albums as well as new digital downloads is unavailable
Australia	certyear type=album/single/video	Pre-1997 awards are not shown on ARIA website - these older references show text only without a URL link
Austria	title artist type	Manual search required
Belgium	certyear type
Brazil	artist type
Canada	title artist type certmonth certyear	certmonth and certyear are only used as backward compatibility if both title and artist are not supplied, in which case the old database is used (only valid from 2001)
Denmark	certyear recent id type	If recent=false will use weekly charts, which is required before 2004. In that case certyear is the chart year and id is the chart month. Otherwise just uses certyear
Europe	certyear	Albums only
Finland	artist
France	certyear award number type=album/single/video/compilation recent	if recent=false will use non-official www.infodisc.fr tables, which require manual operation, however go back more than 1994
GCC	certyear
Germany	title artist type=album/single/video/all* best=yes*/no
Greece	id type	Referenced from wayback machine archive here. id is the full 14 digit timestamp, e.g. 20070114174502
Hong Kong	certyear	Albums only
Hungary	certyear
Ireland	award number certyear	From 2005 only
Italy	type	From 2005 only
Japan	certmonth certyear digital	Setting digital uses the digital download certifications
Mexico	artist title type
Netherlands	artist type	Manual search required
New Zealand	type=album/single/compilation id recent domestic	Supports three sources: if recent=false uses Radioscope certifications which only go April 2007 to July 2011 if recent=book uses User:Muhandes/cite Scapolo and id is the ID of the chart. Otherwise uses the new website at nztop40.co.nz which has charts from 1975. In this case id is the number of the chart and setting domestic=true will use the domestic charts.
Norway	artist certyear
Poland	type=album/video award
Portugal	id recent certyear	if recent=true (from 2007) specify certyear. Otherwise id is in the format XXXXYY where XXXX is the year and YY is the week in which the title charted
Russia	certyear	Albums only
South Korea	type	From April 2018 only
Spain	type certyear week	certyear and certmonth is mandatory. certyear is the year for the certification and certmonth is the week number on which the PDF is available from the dropdown available under the week tab.
Sweden	certyear
Switzerland	title certyear	Will use title if available, certyear otherwise
United Kingdom	id	Manual search required if id not specified
United States	title artist type	You sometimes need to place the artist's name in quotes and put their surname first. Elton John for example should be written like this: artist="John, Elton"
Uruguay	certyear