Template:Skyscraperpage/doc

This is a documentation subpage for Template:Skyscraperpage.
It may contain usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page.

This template is a Citation Style 1 wrapper template based on {{Cite web}}. For centralised Citation Style 1 discussions, see Help talk:Citation Style 1.

This external link template is underused, compared to the number of links to the site it represents (check here). Please help convert those links to make use of this template, for ease of tracking, and ease of interoperability with Wikidata.

This template uses Lua:

Module:EditAtWikidata (sandbox)

This template displays an external link or citation for an entry in the SkyscraperPage database.

Usage

ID only (uses Wikipedia article name as link text): {{SkyscraperPage | ID }}; {{SkyscraperPage | id = ID }}

ID with title: {{SkyscraperPage | ID | TITLE }}; {{SkyscraperPage | id = ID | title = TITLE }}

ID with title and accessdate: {{SkyscraperPage | ID | TITLE | DATE }}; {{SkyscraperPage | id = ID | title = TITLE | accessdate = DATE }}

Using Wikidata property SkyscraperPage building ID (P1699): {{SkyscraperPage}}; {{SkyscraperPage | title = TITLE }}

Parameters

id or unnamed parameter 1: The "buildingID" of the database entry found in the structure's URL. If not provided, the template will attempt to fetch the value from Wikidata. example: http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=39392.
title or name or unnamed parameter 2: The name of the linked-to article, as it appears in the Skyscraperpage database; name can be used instead of title. The default is the article's page name.
accessdate or unnamed parameter 3: The access date, if SkyscraperPage is being cited as a reference. Should normally be omitted when merely including the SkyscraperPage entry as an external link in an article.

Examples

ID with title

URL: https://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=13

Usage: {{SkyscraperPage | 13 | Bank of China Tower }}; {{SkyscraperPage | id= 13 | title= Bank of China Tower }}

Output: "Bank of China Tower". SkyscraperPage.; "Bank of China Tower". SkyscraperPage.

ID with title and accessdate

URL: https://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=39392

Usage: {{SkyscraperPage | 39392 | Chicago Spire | 2019-01-30 }}; {{SkyscraperPage | id= 39392 | title= Chicago Spire | accessdate= 2019-01-30 }}

Output: "Chicago Spire". SkyscraperPage. Retrieved 2019-01-30.; "Chicago Spire". SkyscraperPage. Retrieved 2019-01-30.

Missing ID and Wikidata property not defined

Usage: {{SkyscraperPage}}

Output: {{SkyscraperPage}} template missing ID and not present in Wikidata.

Tracking category

Category:SkyscraperPage template missing ID and not in Wikidata (0)