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Template:Rotten Tomatoes displays an external link to a page at the Rotten Tomatoes website. It is intended for use in the external links section of an article.

Usage

Unnamed parameters: {{Rotten Tomatoes | ID }}; {{Rotten Tomatoes | ID | TITLE or NAME }}

Named parameters: {{Rotten Tomatoes | id= ID }}; {{Rotten Tomatoes | id= ID | title= TITLE }}; {{Rotten Tomatoes | id= ID | name= NAME }}

Using Wikidata property: {{Rotten Tomatoes}}; {{Rotten Tomatoes | title= TITLE }}; {{Rotten Tomatoes | name= NAME }}

Instructions

Go to RottenTomatoes.com and search for a title or person. On the results page, click the appropriate link.
The page for a movie should have a URL (shown in your browser's address bar) like this:
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/<ID>

where m/<ID> is Rotten Tomatoes' ID for this page.
The page for a movie's reviews should have a URL (shown in your browser's address bar) like this:
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/<ID>/reviews
For instance, the pages for The Time Travelers (1964) are:
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1021517-time_travelers

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1021517-time_travelers/reviews

Note however, that the ID for many movies will simply be their complete title in all-lowercase, without punctuation, and with underscores replacing spaces. For instance, the pages for To Kill A Mockingbird (1962) are:
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/to_kill_a_mockingbird

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/to_kill_a_mockingbird/reviews
Add the following text to the "External links" section of your movie article:
* {{Rotten Tomatoes|m/<ID>|<TITLE>}}

replacing <ID> with the ID you found and <TITLE> with the title as you wish it to appear. For example:
* {{Rotten Tomatoes|m/incredibles|The Incredibles}}

* {{Rotten Tomatoes|m/incredibles/reviews|The Incredibles}}
will result in the following:
- The Incredibles at Rotten Tomatoes
- The Incredibles at Rotten Tomatoes
See the examples below for links to Rotten Tomatoes web pages about TV series, franchises, celebrities, and critics.

Examples

Movie or film (ID without prefix, retained for compatibility)

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1021517_time_travelers

* {{Rotten Tomatoes | 1021517-time_travelers | The Time Travelers }}

The Time Travelers at Rotten Tomatoes

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1021517_time_travelers/reviews

* {{Rotten Tomatoes | 1021517-time_travelers/reviews | The Time Travelers }}

The Time Travelers at Rotten Tomatoes

Movie or film (ID with m/ prefix)

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/xmen

* {{Rotten Tomatoes | m/xmen | X-Men }}

X-Men at Rotten Tomatoes

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/xmen/reviews

* {{Rotten Tomatoes | m/xmen/reviews | X-Men }}

X-Men at Rotten Tomatoes

TV series (ID with tv/ prefix)

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/legion

* {{Rotten Tomatoes | tv/legion | Legion }}

Legion at Rotten Tomatoes

Franchise (ID with franchise/ prefix)

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/franchise/x-men

* {{Rotten Tomatoes | franchise/x-men | X-Men: Movies and TV Shows }}

X-Men: Movies and TV Shows at Rotten Tomatoes

Movie/TV person (ID with celebrity/ prefix)

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/luc_besson

* {{Rotten Tomatoes | celebrity/luc_besson | Luc Besson }}

Luc Besson at Rotten Tomatoes

Movie/TV critic (ID with critic/ prefix)

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/critic/richard-brody

* {{Rotten Tomatoes | critic/richard-brody | Richard Brody }}

Richard Brody at Rotten Tomatoes

Duplication concerns

In accordance with the external links duplication guideline, it is acceptable to use Rotten Tomatoes as both an inline citation (supporting a Tomatometer score or critic consensus summary) and an external link.

TemplateData

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TemplateData for Rotten Tomatoes

This template generates an external link to a page for a film title at the Rotten Tomatoes website.

Template parameters
Parameter		Description	Type	Status
ID	`1` `id`	The ID portion of the URL. Examples: 1021517_time_travelers or m/1021517_time_travelers, m/1021517_time_travelers/reviews, m/x-men, m/x-men/reviews, franchise/x-men, tv/legion, celebrity/luc_besson, critic/richard-brody. This parameter is optional if Wikidata property P1258 exists, but required if not. Default Wikidata property P1258	String	optional
Title or name	`2` `title` `name`	Title of movie/film or TV series, or name of person, used as the link text. The template uses italic type for titles (IDs with m/, tv/, franchise/ prefix) and non-italic for people (IDs with celebrity/ or critic/ prefix). This parameter is optional; it defaults to the Wikipedia article name, without any disambiguation such as "(film)" or "(director)". Default {{PAGENAMEBASE}}	String	optional