Template:Ac

[{{{url}}} Author Commentary]

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Basic Use

The author commentary template is for links to "Making-Of" articles, post-mortems, and the like which are written by authors about a work of their own. A page that uses this template will automatically be added to the author commentary category so that readers in search of these craft articles can find them.

Author commentary links that appear on a work page should go under the Spoilers heading in the Links section. When author commentary links appear on a competition page, they should go under an Author Commentary heading in the Links section, and preferably be put in order by author surname.

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Arguments

At a minimum, this template requires the url argument for the link to the making-of article:

{{ac|url=http://www.the-making-of-my-game.com}}.

On the wiki page, the link will be labeled "Author Commentary" by default. (This may be enough information if the link appears on an individual work page.)

To use different link text, we can optionally put the text in an unlabeled argument in the template (and of course we can always add more information outside the template if we want to include crosslinks):

{{ac|url=http://www.the-making-of-my-game.com|How I Made My Amazing Game}} - [[Petunia Q. Author]] on [[Amazing Game]].

The optional archive argument can be used to store an archived version of the url (for example, from the Internet Archive), just as in the link and dead link templates:

{{ac|url=http://www.making-of-my-awesome-game.com|archive=http://www.archived-url.com|How I Made My Amazing Game}}.

If an author commentary link goes dead, we can change "ac" to "dead ac" to switch the link over to the dead ac template instead.