Template:AZBilliards/doc

Purpose
This template is for creating a properly-formatted reference citation to articles in AZBilliards, one of the most frequently cited reliable sources of cue sports journalism (see WikiProject Cue sports for more information). It is almost always used inside an inline reference citation, e.g. . The benefit of the template is that it automatically provides the ,  ,  ,  , and   parameters of Cite web for you.

This template is not for citations to forum feature on that site, which is not a reliable source.

Usage
Common parameters:

The template uses the same (relevant) parameter names as Cite web. The  and   parameters are required.

This template cannot be subst'd, unless this is done before it is put inside  (due to a bug in the and   for the subsequent citations.

Parameters

 * title The title of the article. If the cited item is a regular feature (such as a mini-column, without a specific title for that day's item), use the feature's name as the title, e.g. Calendar instead of using it for at, because a title value is by the template.


 * url The URL to the article (not the homepage of the website). This site does not support SSL (https), so URLs must be given with the leading  part – as in http://www.azbilliards.com/news/stories/11557-fisher-over-fisher-for-tournament-of-champions-win/.

last Given name(s) and family name(s) of the writer. If the article has no by-line, you can use the named editor of a tournament section as the author for purposes of that tournament articles, etc. But otherwise, leave these parameter out, and the managing editor's name will be used automatically. If "AzB Staff" appears as the by-line, do not use that in the template; let it default to the named editor ("AzB Staff" is meaningless non-information to our readers, just a role account in their publishing software). For multiple authors, use last1 and first1, etc. A notable interviewee or columnist with their own Wikipedia article can be linked to with a corresponding author-link, e.g.: Jeanette Lee (pool playerLeeJeanette (interviewee).
 * first

editor-last Given name(s) and family name(s) of someone other than the managing editor (included by default already) who is credited as editing the article or the section in which it appears. Do not use unless both an writer and an editor are given for the piece/section in question.
 * editor-first


 * date The date of publication. Match the English language variety of the article (e.g. "August 8, 2015" for American subjects, and "8 August 2015" for British and many other subjects).


 * at The name (without quotation marks or other markup) of the section or department in which the article appears, if the article has a separate title. This publication does not use numbered pages. If you mistakenly use a page or pages parameter, it will be converted to at.

archive-date You can help prevent WP:LINKROT, especially if citing something that changes frequently, e.g. the "Calendar" section, by using https://WebCitation.org or https://Archive.org/web/ to generate an archive, and cite that, with archive-url and archive-date, in addition to the original url. It is always safest to do this anyway for online source citations, since they may disappear at any time.
 * archive-url


 * quote Optionally added to provide a quotation from the source (don't use quotation marks; the template will provide them).

Example
In this case, as is common on that site, no specific author by-line was given, so the first and last parameters are omitted.

Produces:

Article text.


 * References: