"{{{title}}}" – via Instagram.
Template documentation[view] [edit] [history] [purge]A template for citing content posted on Instagram.
Usage
Copy a blank version to use. Almost all parameter names are supported only in lower case (some initialisms, such as |isbn= have upper-case aliases like |ISBN=, which are acceptable for use). Use the "|" (pipe) character between each parameter. Unused parameters may be deleted to avoid clutter in the edit window. Some samples on this documentation page may include the current date. If the date is not current, then the page.
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Note: When known, the author's real name should be specified in the |author= parameter (or |last= and |first=). If their real name is not known, then the post is probably not an acceptable usage of a self-published source.
Examples
{{Cite Instagram |user=instagram |postid=CHDzGgCs568 |date=2 November 2020 |title=Happy Halloween |access-date=9 November 2020}}
- @instagram (2 November 2020). "Happy Halloween". Retrieved 9 November 2020 – via Instagram.
Error detection
- The parameters
|user=,|postid=,|title=,|date=are required. If omitted or left blank, errors will be reported. For example:{{Cite Instagram |title=I'm an incomplete citation!}}- "I'm an incomplete citation!" – via Instagram.
{{Cite Instagram}}: Missing or empty |user= (help);{{Cite Instagram}}: Missing or empty |postid= (help);{{Cite Instagram}}: Missing or empty |date= (help)
- "I'm an incomplete citation!" – via Instagram.
- The post URL depends on
|postid=; if it is missing, the URL defaults to https://www.instagram.com/ - Templates are checked for
|ref=harv, which is an error. The|ref=parameter must use {{harvid}} in the value. - The template also checks for parameters that are unsupported (e.g. misspellings of parameter names).
- Errors are tracked in Category:Cite instagram templates with errors
TemplateData
TemplateData for Cite Instagram
A template for citing content posted on Instagram
| Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| postid | postid | Alpha-numeric ID of the post | String | required |
| username | user | Instagram account name, without the @ | String | required |
| post | title | Partial or entire content of the post, optionally including hashtags (#), at signs (@), and links. Note: double quote marks (") should be replaced with single quote marks (') because the entire title will display surrounded by double quotes. | String | required |
| First name | first | The first name of the author. | String | suggested |
| Last name | last | The last name of the author. | String | suggested |
| author | author | Author's real name, if known. If not known, then the post is probably not an acceptable usage of a self-published source (see [[WP:SPS]]) | Unknown | suggested |
| author's article | author-link authorlink | Title of existing Wikipedia article about the author | Unknown | optional |
| date | date | date of the post; do not wikilink; do not include time. | Unknown | required |
| access date | access-date accessdate | The full date when the post was accessed; do not wikilink | Unknown | optional |
| language | language | The language in which the post is written, if not in English.
| String | optional |
| location | location | The location from which a post was sent.
| String | optional |
| archive URL | archive-url archiveurl | The URL of an archived copy of a web page, if or in case the URL becomes unavailable; requires 'archive-date' | String | optional |
| archive date | archive-date archivedate | Date when the original URL was archived; do not wikilink | String | optional |
| URL status | url-status | If set to 'live', the title displays as the live link; if set to dead, the title displays as the archive link | String | optional |
| script post | script-title | For post in languages that do not use a Latin-based alphabet (Arabic, Chinese, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, etc). Prefix with two-character ISO639-1 language code followed by a colon, e.g. for Japanese use: ja:...
| Unknown | optional |
| translated post | trans-title | An English language translation, if the post cited is in a foreign language; use of 'language' parameter is recommended | Unknown | optional |
| Link to Instagram article? | link | Set to "no" to not link to the Wikipedia article for Instagram. Useful for preventing overlinking when more than one post is cited. | Unknown | optional |
| Date format | df | Valid values: dmy, dmy-all, mdy, mdy-all | Unknown | optional |