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| − | The Macdonald Dictionary biography for [[Richard Molesworth Taylor]] is at <nowiki> | + | The Macdonald Dictionary biography for [[Richard Molesworth Taylor]] is at <nowiki>https://collection.canterburymuseum.com/objects/123678</nowiki>. The <tt><nowiki>id</nowiki></tt> in the URL is '123678'. Accessing the biography today ([[Coordinated Universal Time|UTC]]) would result in the following code: |
<tt><nowiki><ref name="MacD Taylor">{{Macdonald Dictionary|123678|Richard Molesworth Taylor|</nowiki>{{date}}<nowiki>}}</ref></nowiki></tt> | <tt><nowiki><ref name="MacD Taylor">{{Macdonald Dictionary|123678|Richard Molesworth Taylor|</nowiki>{{date}}<nowiki>}}</ref></nowiki></tt> | ||
Revision as of 02:05, 26 November 2019
| This is a documentation subpage for Template:Macdonald Dictionary. It contains usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page. |
Usage
This template creates a {{cite web}} reference to an entry in the Macdonald Dictionary, a resource with 22,000 entries created by the historian George Macdonald and held by Canterbury Museum.
{{Macdonald Dictionary|id|title|accessdate}}
Typical usage would be between <ref></ref> tags, with the code below suitable for copy and paste:
<ref name="MacD lastname">{{Macdonald Dictionary|id|title|14 January 2026}}</ref>
- id: Id in the URL, consisting of 6 digits
- title: Title of the dictionary entry
- accessdate: Date the Macdonald Dictionary entry was last verified to support the text in the Wikipedia article
- A plain link without cite web can be created with plainlink=y.
Apart from id, all parameters are optional. title defaults to PAGENAME.
Example
The Macdonald Dictionary biography for Richard Molesworth Taylor is at https://collection.canterburymuseum.com/objects/123678. The id in the URL is '123678'. Accessing the biography today (UTC) would result in the following code:
<ref name="MacD Taylor">{{Macdonald Dictionary|123678|Richard Molesworth Taylor|14 January 2026}}</ref>
Alternatively, to create a plain link:[1]
<ref name="MacD Taylor2">{{Macdonald Dictionary|123678|Richard Molesworth Taylor| |y }}</ref>
This will give the following footnotes: