Template:Film date/doc

Purpose

This template has two functions:

1. To provide correct formatting of film release dates and their locations within {{Infobox film}}. A citation for each date/location may also be supplied.
2. To automatically categorize films according to their first release date.

Usage

This template is intended to supply a result to the |released= parameter of {{Infobox film}}.

The template adds Category:YYYY films where YYYY is the year of first release, as well as Category:Upcoming films for films that have not reached their first release yet. Please note that Category:YYYY films will only be added if the category exists, and that if only the year is included as the release date, the film is considered to be "upcoming" during that entire year.

The television equivalents of these categories (Category:YYYY television films and Category:Upcoming television films) are used when the |TV= parameter is set for use on television film articles.

Syntax

This template allows up to five release dates/locations, but normally no more than two are needed. Please see WP:FILMRELEASE for a full explanation.

One release date only

• {{Film date|year|month|day|location|ref1=<ref name="xxxxx" />}}

If no location is specified, month and day may be omitted. If location is specified, then month and day must be supplied, though they may be left blank or empty if not known; |ref1= is an optional parameter allowing a named reference ("xxxxx") to be used to verify the date/location of the release.

More than one release date

• {{Film date|year1|month1|day1|location1|ref1=<ref name="xxxxx" />|year2|month2|day2|location2|ref2=<ref name="yyyy" />}} and similarly for up to five dates/locations.

In this case, all the year, month, day and location parameters, except the last, must be supplied, but as before, month and day may be left empty or blank if not known. Note that |ref1=, |ref2=, etc. are optional named parameters, and either may be omitted without affecting the other parameters.

Examples

{{Film date|1993}} returns:

• 1993 (1993)

{{Film date|1993|02}} returns:

• February 1993 (1993-02)

{{Film date|1993|02|24}} returns:

• February 24, 1993 (1993-02-24)

{{Film date|1993|February|24}} returns:

• February 24, 1993 (1993-February-24)

{{Film date|1993|02|24|2008|03}} returns:

• February 24, 1993 (1993-02-24)
• March 2008 (2008-03)

{{Film date|1993|02|24|Latvia}} returns:

• February 24, 1993 (1993-02-24) (Latvia)

{{Film date|1993|02|24|2008|03|23}} returns:

• February 24, 1993 (1993-02-24)
• March 23, 2008 (2008-03-23)

Optional parameters

• df can be set to "y" or "yes" to display the day before the month. Default is month before day.

{{Film date|1993|02|24|df=y}} returns:

• 24 February 1993 (1993-02-24)

{{Film date|1993|02|24|Latvia|df=y}} returns:

• 24 February 1993 (1993-02-24) (Latvia)

• fy can be set to override the automatic category. For example:

{{Film date|1993|02|24|2008|03|23}} uses the category Category:1993 films

{{Film date|1993|02|24|2008|03|23|fy=2008}} uses the category Category:2008 films.

• TV is to be used for television films. It sorts films into [[Category:YYYY television films]] in place of [[Category:YYYY films]]. Set TV=y or TV=yes to do this.

• ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5 are used to supply named references. See above for detail.

Technical notes

Do not use any of the following markup in front of this template: : * #. Doing so will cause HTML errors. See MOS:INDENT for more guidance.

This template uses {{Start date}} to handle the hard work of date formatting, and {{Plainlist}} to format list items as recommended for use within infoboxes.

{{Film date|2001|1|28|location1|2002|2|28|location2}}

• January 28, 2001 (2001-01-28) (location1)
• February 28, 2002 (2002-02-28) (location2)

'"`UNIQ--templatestyles-00000014-QINU`"'<div class="plainlist film-date" >
* January&nbsp;28,&nbsp;2001<span style="display:none">&#160;(<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">2001-01-28</span>)</span>&#32;(location1)
* February&nbsp;28,&nbsp;2002<span style="display:none">&#160;(<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">2002-02-28</span>)</span>&#32;(location2)
</div>

TemplateData

Displays information about a film's release date

Template parameters

This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
Release year 1	1	no description	Number	required
Release month 1	2	no description	Unknown	suggested
Release day 1	3	no description	Number	suggested
Release location 1	4	First location where the film was released	Content	suggested
Release year 2	5	no description	Unknown	optional
Release month 2	6	no description	Unknown	optional
Release day 2	7	no description	Unknown	optional
Release location 2	8	no description	Unknown	optional
9	9	no description	Unknown	optional
10	10	no description	Unknown	optional
11	11	no description	Unknown	optional
12	12	no description	Unknown	optional
13	13	no description	Unknown	optional
14	14	no description	Unknown	optional
15	15	no description	Unknown	optional
16	16	no description	Unknown	optional
17	17	no description	Unknown	optional
18	18	no description	Unknown	optional
19	19	no description	Unknown	optional
20	20	no description	Unknown	optional
demospace	demospace	no description	Unknown	optional
TV	TV	Set to yes to apply TV categories	Boolean	optional
Category film year	fy	Sets the film year to be used in categorization	Number	optional
Day first?	df	Set to yes to display the day before the month	Boolean	optional
Reference 1	ref1	Reference for the film's first release date	Content	optional
Reference 2	ref2	Reference for the film's second release date	Content	optional
ref3	ref3	no description	Unknown	optional
ref4	ref4	no description	Unknown	optional
ref5	ref5	no description	Unknown	optional

Tracking categories

• Category:Pages using film date with TV parameter (0)

Tracking use of the |fy= parameter, which overrides the automatic categorisation by year:

• Category:Template film date with category override (26)

Tracking by number of release dates:

• Category:Template film date with 1 release date (135,469)
• Category:Template film date with 2 release dates (16,808)
• Category:Template film date with 3 release dates (2,098)
• Category:Template film date with 4 release dates (350)
• Category:Template film date with 5 release dates (110)

Total by-release-date: 154,835

See also

• {{Start date}}
• {{Nowrap}}
• {{Small}}