Template:Credit line/doc

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Template adds Credit line field to {{Information}} templates used with most images, which stores credit line or attribution text, that author wishes to be used by reusers, as is required for files using Creative Commons CC-BY and CC-BY-SA licenses.

Usage

{{Credit line|Author=|Other=|License=}}

Parameters

Parameter name	Description (this part of the documentation is only available in some languages)	Default value	required or optional?
Author	Author's name portion of the Credit line. Could be pseudonym or Commons username	empty	optional
Other	Other parts of the Credit line separated by "/". They can include: Attribution Parties, like Wikimedia Commons or sponsor institute URI, like web address Title of the work Other=WC will provide link to Wikimedia Commons	empty	optional
License	License portion of the Credit line. Required for CC-BY-SA and GFDL licenses but optional for rare Attribution or CC-BY licenses. Use word 'skip' to omit license section. License should have a name of the license and link to the license. Several shortcuts were defined to more popular licenses (see table below)	empty	required

Additional information

The template is intended to be used in the following namespaces:

• the File namespace

The template is intended to be used by the following user groups:

• no user group specified

Relies on:
{{Information field}}

⧼See also⧽

(this part of the documentation is only available in some languages)

Commons:Credit line

Localization

To add your language to the list of languages supported by this template, please edit the template and add a row to the "{{LangSwitch| }}" construct. It takes the form "{{{1}}}" (xx being the code of your language)

Hardwired license Shortcuts

License	Output
CC-BY-SA-3.0 & GFDL	CC-BY-SA-3.0 & GFDL
cc-by-sa-3.0	CC-BY-SA-3.0
CC-BY-SA-3.0 (DE)	CC-BY-SA-3.0 (DE)
CC-BY-3.0	CC-BY-3.0

Example of code for use with {{Information}} template

{{Information
|Description=description
|Source={{own}}
|Author=John Doe
|Date=2008-06-09
|other_fields={{Credit line |Author = © John Doe | Other = Wikimedia Commons |License = CC-BY-SA-3.0 & GFDL}}
}}

will produce:

DescriptionCredit line/doc	description
Date	9 June 2008
Source	Own work
Author	John Doe
Attribution (required by the licence)	© John Doe / Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY-SA-3.0 & GFDL

Also use this code for use with {{Book}} template.

Example with different values for all parameters

{{Information
|Description=description
|Source={{own}}
|Author=[[User:Example]]
|Date=2008-06-09
|other_fields={{Credit line |Author = [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Example User:Example] |License = [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ CC-BY-SA-2.0]}}
}}

will produce:

DescriptionCredit line/doc	description
Date	9 June 2008
Source	Own work
Author	User:Example
Attribution (required by the licence)	User:Example / CC-BY-SA-2.0