Template:Dead ac: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 17:46, 11 June 2016

Basic Use:

This dead ac link template is for dead links that formerly pointed to "Making-Of" articles, postmortems, and similar author commentary. The arguments in this template are the same ones found in the author commentary template (and, for that matter, the same ones found in the link and dead link templates).

If a link using the author commentary template goes dead, we can change "ac" to "dead ac" to switch to this dead ac template.

Arguments:

url (Required if "archive" argument is absent. Optional if "archive" argument is present. ) Specifies the formerly-live url of the making-of article.
archive (Required if "url" argument is absent. Optional if "url" argument is present.) Specifies an archived version of the url (for example, from the Internet Archive).
link text (Optional.) This is an unnamed argument. If this argument is omitted, the link text will show up as "Author Commentary," which may be enough for a link on an individual work page.

If the "archive" argument is specified, the link will point to the archived url. If the "archive" argument is omitted, this link will point to an Internet Archive search for the original url, and the wiki page will be automatically added to the New links wanted category.

Examples:

{{dead ac|url=http://www.intfiction.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=19268 |archive=https://web.archive.org/web/20160611014422/http://www.intfiction.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=19268}}.

appears as

Author Commentary (archived).

{{dead ac|url=http://www.intfiction.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=19268 |archive=https://web.archive.org/web/20160611014422/http://www.intfiction.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=19268|Seeking Ataraxia postmortem}} by [[GlassRat]].

appears as

Seeking Ataraxia postmortem (archived) by GlassRat.

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 ===Basic Use:===
-This '''dead ac''' link template is for dead links that formerly pointed to "Making-Of" articles, postmortems, and similar author commentary. The arguments in this template are the same ones found in the [[:Template:ac|author commentary]] link template (and, for that matter, the same ones found in the [[:Template:link|link]] and [[:Template:dead link|dead link]] templates).
+This '''dead ac''' link template is for dead links that formerly pointed to "Making-Of" articles, postmortems, and similar author commentary. The arguments in this template are the same ones found in the [[:Template:ac|author commentary template]] (and, for that matter, the same ones found in the [[:Template:link|link]] and [[:Template:dead link|dead link]] templates).
+If a link using the [[Template:ac|author commentary template]] goes dead, we can change "ac" to "dead ac" to switch to this [[:Template:dead ac|dead ac template]].
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 ===Arguments:===
-* '''url''' ''(Optional if "archive" argument is present. Required if "archive" argument is absent.)'' Should specify the formerly-live url of the making-of article.
+* '''url''' ''(Required if "archive" argument is absent. Optional if "archive" argument is present. )'' Specifies the formerly-live url of the making-of article.
-* '''link text''' ''(Optional.)'' This is an unnamed argument. If this argument is omitted, the link text will show up as Author Commentary, which may be enough for a link on an individual work page.
+* '''archive''' ''(Required if "url" argument is absent. Optional if "url" argument is present.)'' Specifies an archived version of the url (for example, from the Internet Archive).
-* '''archive''' ''(Required if "url" argument is absent. Optional if "url" argument is present.)'' This is used to store an archived version of the url (for example, from the Internet Archive).
+* '''link text''' ''(Optional.)'' This is an unnamed argument. If this argument is omitted, the link text will show up as "Author Commentary," which may be enough for a link on an individual work page.
-If a link using the author commentary template goes dead, we can change "ac" to "dead ac" to switch to the [[:Template:dead ac|dead ac template]].
 If the "archive" argument is specified, the link will point to the archived url. If the "archive" argument is omitted, this link will point to an Internet Archive search for the original url, and the wiki page will be automatically added to the [[:Category:New links wanted|New links wanted category]].