Template talk:Cite certification

Customised titles
I was recently criticizing an FLC article I was reviewing because the references for Australian certifications were using titles obviously quite different from those actually used by ARIA. The nominator explained that the results were generated by the Cite certification templates and he didn't know what to do about the mismatching results. I have allowed myself the liberty of coming here and tweaking the template, at least for the particular (and to me, glaring) example of Australia, potentially (over time) for others.

I hope this departure from the philosophy of always using " certifications" doesn't offend Muhandes (who has done some great work here) or anybody else. If this rubs anybody the wrong way they should feel free to speak up right away. (Stop me before I edit again, Bwahahahaha!) &mdash; JohnFromPinckney (talk) 11:53, 21 October 2011 (UTC)

Australia
Changes made to sidestep (i.e., not use) giving us in favor of generating Notice that I've completely disregarded the artist and title, since they are of no use in searching for AUS certs and ARIA doesn't provide artist- or title-specific cert documents.
 * 1) "Australian album certifications – K-Ci & JoJo – Love Always" (or similar, poss. without artist or title)
 * 1) "ARIA Charts - Accreditations - 2011 Albums" or similar titles.

Input/plausibility checks: Now tests first for presence of ; if found proceeds to test for valid. Invalid or missing  and missing   produce a red error message in the ref list instead of expanding the  template.

One idea I had but did not build into the plaus checking is to accept uppercase/lowercase/mixed case  parameters, then test the lowercase version (, I believe) for validity before passing of the forced-lowercase version as a parameter to. Is this useful and worthwhile, or would it just make the template code unnecessarily complex? &mdash; JohnFromPinckney (talk) 12:11, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
 * I'm happy a second pair of eyes and hands (and possibly though not probably, feet) is going to be on this code. The edit to Australian certifications seems like a good move. I think it could be incorporated it into and used for Belgium, Europe, Hungary and the rest who use this format. I also think warnings are a good idea, I just never had time to add them all. --Muhandes (talk) 12:27, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
 * My eyes and hands are engaged, but don't worry, my feet won't get into the code; I save the use of my feet for difficult editors! And thanks, I will have a look at the certs you mention. You know, "when I get time". Meanwhile, I'm looking at Switzerland. &mdash; JohnFromPinckney (talk) 03:32, 24 October 2011 (UTC)

Switzerland
Currently gives us something like and yields three possibilities:
 * 1) "Swiss album certifications – Eminem – Not Afraid" (or similar, poss. without artist or title)
 * goes to certs search page and searches for artist, if provided
 * goes to Awards page for certyear if provided but no artist
 * goes to Awards 2011 page if neither artist nor certyear provided.

However the on these swisscharts.com pages is always "The Official Swiss Charts and Music Community". The heading in the page content is "Awards 2009" (or whatever year sought) or just "Awards" when we perform a search (for artist, title or both). In the current default case, we go to the Awards page with no year specified, and swisscharts.com defaults to current year's certs, so we get "Awards 2011".

I'm proposing to change the title in the generated ref to more closely match swisscharts.com's /headings, probably by concatenating them with a colon. So our default case is "The Official Swiss Charts and Music Community: Awards 2011". There'd be no artist and no title.

The table below shows the various permutations and the proposed title in each case. I've abbreviated the "The Official Swiss Charts and Music Community:" bit as "TOSCaMC:".

Example of resulting citations then are:
 * 1) "The Official Swiss Charts and Music Community: Awards (Eminem; 'Not Afraid')". IFPI Switzerland. June 20, 1999. Retrieved September 29, 2011.
 * 2) "The Official Swiss Charts and Music Community: Awards 2010". IFPI Switzerland. June 20, 1999. Retrieved September 29, 2011.

Here, I've somewhat favored the status quo logic rather than make a big change, assuming it's the most reasonable or helpful approach if we have title, artist and year. Swisscharts allows the search for both artist and title at the same time, but then we have to ignore the year. If we have a year and either artist or title (or both), is it better to search for the artist or title (or both), or should we just give the year's awards page? I've stuck with doing a search using what we're given, as it might help us quickly see if a song we've known was gold (in 2008) has later moved to platinum (2009) or double-platinum (2011). Other ideas welcomed.

Input/plausibility checks: None yet. EDIT: Requires one of artist, title, or certyear.–JFP What should be added? &mdash; JohnFromPinckney (talk) 07:11, 24 October 2011 (UTC)
 * It also occurs to me that the publisher is incorrect. The template currently emits IFPI Switzerland, but the place we're getting the info is swisscharts.com, published by Hung Medien. There's not really any visible place where IFPI is even mentioned there (although I understand it to be the ultimate source of the data). I believe I'll make that change, too, so we'll get something like:


 * 1) "The Official Swiss Charts and Music Community: Awards (Eminem; 'Not Afraid')". Hung Medien. Retrieved September 29, 2011.
 * Since swisscharts doesn't offer any publication dates (nor do any of the Hung Medien sites), I'm going to disable the use of the  parameter in . We'll still allow users to enter it, but we'll just ignore it. &mdash; JohnFromPinckney (talk) 08:17, 24 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Again, I'm happy with your involvement. I was going to do a little overhaul of the warnings since a little mishap means I suddenly have eight weeks of time. Seems like what you are getting at will eventually make redundant. I have no problem with that, I just thought it was too much work.
 * For Switzerland, I think we should check for at least one of artist, title, certyear. --Muhandes (talk) 08:50, 24 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Ouch! It hurts me just to look at the images in that article, and I'm sitting all nice and comfortably here. As for Switzerland, I've implemented the table above and done some sandbox testing and it looks good so far (I'm letting it ferment for a while). What I think you're saying though is that the upper-rightmost cell in the table shouldn't be allowed after all, that is, it should be an error condition in which we ask for at least one parameter instead of emitting a real reference. Yes? I can do that, I've got my red paint sitting here by the keyboard.


 * I don't know about really getting rid of . It's a good little template and nicely covers the generic case, uh, generically. I don't know how much of the other, non-generic cases I'll get finished before I'm pulled in some other direction (and I have no intention of breaking my foot just to spend time on this). At least I can chip away at the bigger differences so the cert refs slowly edge closer to their sources. &mdash; JohnFromPinckney (talk) 09:26, 24 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Chipping is just as fine (seems like most of what we do here in Wikipedia is chipping). I assure you, though, I did not break a foot just so I'll have more time to spend, it was just an afterthought. In the meanwhile, I created Category:Cite certification used with missing parameters, which already had a few dozen members and corrected them. --Muhandes (talk) 10:27, 24 October 2011 (UTC)

Okay, I've changed the template as discussed and now seen in the table above. &mdash; JohnFromPinckney (talk) 06:53, 2 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Looks good. I'm not sure I follow the meaning of this though. Why hitparade.ch? Is that the headquarters of the Hung Meiden empire? --Muhandes (talk) 08:17, 2 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Yes, there's this huuuge chrome tower... Well, okay, not quite, but rather close. Steffen Hung has his operation in Schlieren, Switzerland. I don't know if he works alone, but Google Maps suggests he might just have a computer in a spare bedroom. I assume he started with just hitparade.ch and then went on to the English-language version swisscharts.com and all the other flavors of charts. Possibly he did Belgium and Netherlands next, because those are the two exceptions to all the other sites which merely say "Hung Medien". Maybe he just settled on that simpler, unified copyright line for all his latest sites.
 * Or maybe it's just a mistake, which is what I've always suspected. Maybe the hitparade.ch site came first and had that at the bottom, then he added expanded versions of that to ultratop.be and dutchcharts.nl, and when he changed the hitparade.ch site to show Hung Medien, he forgot to do anything with BE and NL. Or it was too late, and he's legally obligated to leave it now.
 * Anyway, it looks a little dopey (because it looks like an error), but it is what it is. I think we're stuck with it. &mdash; JohnFromPinckney (talk) 11:26, 2 November 2011 (UTC)
 * That was just temporary blindness preventing me from seeing the bottom line there which says hitparade.ch very clearly with white on black letters. --Muhandes (talk) 12:23, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

Germany
Currently gives us something like or similar, possibly without artist or title, except at least one must be included, and if the user doesn't specify album/single/video, we get something in the form
 * 1) "German album certifications – Eminem – Not Afraid"
 * 1) "German certifications – Kelly Clarkson"

Since the BVMI site uses "Gold-/Platin-Datenbank" in both  and   elements, I'm about to change it now so that the ref title is more like one of depending on what we're given to search for. I'm not planning on giving any indication of what  is set to. The BVMI accepts a year (Jahr) parameter, but we don't use this, even if user enters a  parameter value in the template.
 * 1) "Gold-/Platin-Datenbank (Eminem)"
 * 2) "Gold-/Platin-Datenbank (Eminem, 'Not Afraid')"
 * 3) "Gold-/Platin-Datenbank ('Not Afraid')"
 * 4) "Gold-/Platin-Datenbank (Eminem, albums)"
 * 5) "Gold-/Platin-Datenbank (Eminem, 'Not Afraid', singles)"

Input/plausibility checks:
 * Currently checks (after recent edit) that either  or   (or both) are provided/
 * Currently, silently accepts junk in  parameter, considering anything other than "album", "single", or "video" to be the same as "all". Whatever is entered as   is currently passed to visible title via . In future this should be checked for one of the allowed entries, and simply ignored if it's something else (no error message). If user types "ablum" (or the German "alben") for an Eminem search and get all his singles, too, user will have to figure out the problem without the template's help. Or do you disagree? &mdash; JohnFromPinckney (talk) 22:17, 5 November 2011 (UTC)
 * If you feel this is better, I have no objection. Mind you, just adding the check I added we now have more than 400 articles to fix. --Muhandes (talk) 00:23, 6 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Okay, I finally made these changes. And right now, we're down to 250 pages with errors to fix. &mdash; JohnFromPinckney (talk) 12:10, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

New Zealand
A couple of months ago, the Radioscope site went down, or at least, its pages we're no longer served following "some hacking" at the site. So New Zealand certs sourced from there were no longer verifiable (but theoretically, a new site is coming Real Soon Now).

Then, a few weeks ago, the morons at RIANZ tossed out their old site with their weekly charts, many used by pages here at WP. Now there's a redirect to a page that gives us 30 images of single covers, which may have a tiny ribbon denoting a gold or platinum cert. There's a suggestion that (perhaps starting from the recent change-over) the date at the upper-right is a drop-down list with links to other weeks' charts. So far, that doesn't work for me, but then, the page never finishes loading either, as near as I can tell.

Why do these big-money recording-company associations have the worst Web sites?

Well, in light of this, any template work for NZ certs is pointless. Maybe someday we'll be able to reverse-engineer the site to point to specific (old) certs, but for right now, I don't think there's anything to reverse-engineer. There seems to be no useable archive of NZ certs on the Web, meaning no NZ certs (except 30 singles and 30 albums, during any one week) can be verified. So NZ is on indefinite hold. &mdash; JohnFromPinckney (talk) 12:24, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
 * I noticed the above. I still have hope that the new format will include old charts (for now it says "NO CHART FOUND Chart data coming soon) and with just a bit of luck it will still use the old ID system. For now I agree NZ is a lost case. --Muhandes (talk) 14:42, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Old charts are now available here. chartnum and chartkind parameters still work. Also Radioscope is available through Wayback archive (Make sure the archive date is set to July 2011). Mattg82 (talk) 03:37, 29 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Good news (of sorts, since I'm not sure what we will do about new charts). I already corrected the URL for the rianz.org.nz URL, I will correct the Radioscope one later today. --Muhandes (talk) 10:40, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Done, and also added input checks. --Muhandes (talk) 11:12, 30 December 2011 (UTC)

Expanding to other languages
I'll be brief and to the point here (my Wiki time is limited): I would like to expand this template to other languages (besides Ukrainian). The English Wikipedia is not the only one that constantly cites certifications, especially when it comes to recent albums and singles.

Once we find someone who edits in a foreign language and can write "wiki-code" or whatever it is that is needed, we could start with the second and third-biggest Wikipedias, namely the German and French ones.

Personally speaking, I would like there to be a cite certification template in Spanish as I do heavy music editing in the Spanish Wikipedia and I sometimes feel hindered by the lack of that template.

Please, if you have any suggestions, comments or even dissuading arguments, write them below.--Mauri96 (talk) 00:42, 3 June 2012 (UTC)
 * I would be happy to assist, but I don't see what assistance I can offer. If the templates do not work "as is" on other Wikis, there is very little I can do since I am not familiar with what they have there. --Muhandes (talk) 20:06, 4 June 2012 (UTC)


 * It's easier than I thought. All one has to do is select the text here, copy it, paste it here, for example, translate, and save!
 * The only problem would be differences in code between languages. From my experience copying new content from the list of best-selling singles worldwide to its Spanish counterpart, it's sort of like trying to understand German if you speak English or Portuguese if you speak Spanish.--Mauri96 (talk) 00:40, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
 * I will now attempt to create a "cite certification" template in Spanish. Wish me luck!
 * P.S.- If anything wacky happens to the English Template, I'll assume responsibility-- Mαuri ’96   “ ...over the Borderline ” 03:33, 23 July 2012 (UTC)

Changes in Swedish certification database
Hello everyone!

I'd like to inform whoever updates the template that the Swedish certifications from 2009-2011 have moved to new URL's. For example, the certifications from 2011 are now found here.

You can find the other two links at the "Guld & Platina" page.-- Mαuri ’96   “ ...over the Borderline ” 03:15, 14 October 2012 (UTC)

United States certifications no longer work
It looks like the RIAA has updated its site and thus, the URL generated by this template to perform the certification search does not work anymore. Could someone update the template to resolve? Thanks. Y2Kcrazyjoker4 (talk &bull; contributions) 02:57, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

How do I re-use citations?
Check out the A Moon Shaped Pool page. It has a certifications table, which is cited using the template. But we also mention the certification under the "Release" section. It's uncited. I want to re-use the source cited in the certifications table, but can't figure out how to do it. What do I do? Popcornduff (talk) 05:45, 10 August 2016 (UTC)

Japan
There are two databases for RIAJ please update the template to allow either to be used. Mattg82 (talk) 16:33, 15 February 2018 (UTC)


 * http://www.riaj.or.jp/f/data/cert/gd.html (standard)
 * http://www.riaj.or.jp/f/data/cert/hs.html (digital)


 * I seem to have removed this page from my watch list so I didn't notice this request. Just to make sure, you are requesting to add a  parameter for Japanese certifications, such that when set it will use the second option, is that correct? --Muhandes (talk) 13:08, 16 March 2018 (UTC)
 * yes or the other way around, depends on which is the default option I guess. As long as either can be used, I have no opinion on the actual way it is achieved. Mattg82 (talk) 20:07, 16 March 2018 (UTC)
 * I implemented it in my sandbox this way:


 * Is this what you meant? Also, is this to be used in conjunction with Certification Table Entry? If so, there are more changes that are needed. --Muhandes (talk) 18:57, 17 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Digital is hs.html. There are many Japanese standard certifications so modifying Certification Table Entry as well is a good idea. Mattg82 (talk) 19:57, 17 March 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅ I implemented the changes on Cite certification for now, will work on implementing it for Certification Table Entry next. --Muhandes (talk) 23:02, 17 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Well, it was much easier than I thought it would be. Here is how it looks:


 * Let me know if there are any problems. --Muhandes (talk) 23:12, 17 March 2018 (UTC)

Australia 2019
Can someone please add URLs for 2019 certification in Australia? I used the template here and it generates an error. Thanks! Stee888 (talk) 19:04, 19 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Singles
 * Albums
 * ✅, thanks for letting us know. --Muhandes (talk) 23:55, 19 February 2019 (UTC)

Spanish certification
I added parameter checking for Spain, and I get a flood of pages at. I had a look and they mostly seem legit mistakes, listing certifications before 2004 without a source or after that without the week, however, if you think this is incorrect, feel free to revert my edit and let me know what went wrong. --Muhandes (talk) 14:22, 2 August 2019 (UTC)

Finland corrected
FYI, Finland website corrected to their new website and domestic now supported. Also added parameter validation, verifying artist is listed. --Muhandes (talk) 14:43, 2 August 2019 (UTC)

New website for Spanish certifications: El portal de Música
I noticed editors using https://www.elportaldemusica.es for citing certifications (I think it was ) and it seems like this is a much better option than using the current listing we have. Compare The website seems to be published by Productores de Música de España so I see no reason not to just swap to it from the existing one. Does anyone else see a reason not to use it?. By the way, there is also an option for directing to a specific album e.g. https://www.elportaldemusica.es/single/lewis-capaldi-someone-you-loved which can be supported through the id parameter. --Muhandes (talk) 12:02, 13 September 2019 (UTC)
 * It seems like only charts from mid 2009 were imported so for now I am not going to implement this, unless someone requests it. --Muhandes (talk) 10:28, 8 October 2019 (UTC)

URL fix for Sweden
Please transfer the sandbox at Certification Cite/URL/sandbox to the main template; I have added a new URL for Swedish certifications after 2011 since the website currently used by the template (sverigetopplistan.se) was recently redesigned, making the current URL unusable as a source. A simple testcase can be seen here. Phil roc  (c) 17:03, 11 March 2020 (UTC)
 * ✅.  P.I. Ellsworth   ed.  put'r there 12:37, 12 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi - thanks for honoring my request but would you be able to retransfer the previously-linked sandbox? I am actively working to implement support for the new website and have added compatibility with the Swedish album chart.  Phil  roc  (c) 19:35, 12 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Also done.  P.I. Ellsworth   ed.  put'r there 00:52, 13 March 2020 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 12 June 2020
Hello, I noticed when trying to do this (on Mark Ronson discography):

that it brings up a 'missing or empty URL' error. I think the problem is that nobody has added the 2020 ARIA pages to this template, so these URLs would just need to be added:

http://www.aria.com.au/pages/httpwww.aria.com.aupageshttpwww.aria.com.aupagesAlbumAccreds2020.htm http://www.aria.com.au/pages/httpwww.aria.com.aupagesSinglesAccreds2020.htm

They haven't been updated since February, but they're still of use for new certifications from January and February this year. There's no 2020 DVD page. Thanks! Exallonyx (talk) 10:08, 12 June 2020 (UTC)
 * ✅.  P.I. Ellsworth   ed.  put'r there 19:15, 14 June 2020 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 25 June 2020
The URL for Hungary below is causing an issue (year parameter omitted due to transclusion issues):

http://zene.slagerlistak.hu/arany-es-platinalemezek/adatbazis/

The "zene." part of the URL needs to be removed, as it is causing the direct linking to certification years to fail and instead default to the current year. The new code should look like this (year parameter omitted due to transclusion issues):

http://slagerlistak.hu/arany-es-platinalemezek/adatbazis/ Y2Kcrazyjoker4 (talk &bull; contributions) 12:55, 25 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:27, 25 June 2020 (UTC)

Norway search
Hello! Seems that ifpi norway has changed link to certification, which causes direct link with searchable parameter to fail

The URL for Norway below is causing an issue (=artist omitted): http://www.ifpi.no/component/rstrophybridge/?filter_search

The new code should look like this (=artist omitted): https://www.ifpi.no/trofe/trofeoversikt/?searchterm Kleool (talk) 09:50, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
 * ✅ --Muhandes (talk) 06:32, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

Ireland certifications
Someone could to make a change in the period of Ireland certifications, please? It's unavalaible in this country since 2013 and I can't do this because I don't have permission to edit this article.

Thanks, LuanCampSouza93 (talk) 03:01, 1 December 2020 (UTC)
 * If you meant the documentation page then it is not protected and anyone can edit it. Anyway, I added a note about no certification in Ireland after 2013. If you meant something else, please explain what you mean. --Muhandes (talk) 12:09, 1 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I haven't seen this before. I would also like to know if it could be made a small change to the name of the Brazilian certification company? Because its current name is Pro-Música Brasil, no longer the former name Associação Brasileira dos Produtores de Discos (Brazilian Association of Record Producers), and this change I can't really to make. Thanks again. — Preceding unsigned comment added by LuanCampSouza93 (talk • contribs) 15:18, 1 December 2020 (UTC)
 * ✅. (Please sign your messages, otherwise pinging doesn't work. Please also see WP:TALK.) --Muhandes (talk) 12:52, 2 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I forgot to sign my former message. LuanCampSouza93 (talk) 13:48, 2 December 2020 (UTC)

Argentina
How it was recommended for me, I came here to discussion page and would like to know if the commands archiveurl and archivedate could be included to identify certifications in Argentina. For example, this link:

https://web.archive.org/web/20070927004453/http://www.capif.org.ar/Default.asp?AnoFiltro=2005&CO=5&CODOP=ESOP&ACCION=+Buscar+ 9 - that shows certifications from 2001 to 2006 (it's required to choice the certification year);

and this: https://archive.is/20110706084844/http://www.capif.org.ar/Default.asp?PerDesde_MM=0&PerDesde_AA=0&PerHasta_MM=0&PerHasta_AA=0&interprete=&album=&LanDesde_MM=1&LanDesde_AA=1980&LanHasta_MM=12&LanHasta_AA=2010&Galardon=O&Tipo=1&ACCION2=+Buscar+&ACCION=Buscar&CO=5&CODOP=ESOP 9 - that shows all (or almost all) certifications in this country until 2011.

I'll be waiting. Thanks. LuanCampSouza93 (talk) 20:34, 2 December 2020 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure I understand the request. You provided two very good archived URLs, and I think they should be used as often as possible, but why would you use cite certification to use these URLs? Using cite web seems much preferable in this case. The use of cite certification is meant for creating a standard URL, but you are not using this standard URL created. Perhaps I am missing something? Are there cases where you are actually using an archived version of the URL created by cite certification which you need to archive? --Muhandes (talk) 08:44, 4 December 2020 (UTC)

Portuguese certifications
Ongoing discussion regarding Portugal at Template talk:Certification Table Entry. --Muhandes (talk) 07:55, 11 January 2021 (UTC)

Australia certifications
Following up on this discussion I added the option to cite Australia from the ARIA top 50 and top 20 Australian artist charts. See documentation. --Muhandes (talk) 11:50, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
 * I now found out ARIA has been publishing their accreditation list for 2020 and 2021 on dropbox. While this is off, the source is official, so I added it as an option. --Muhandes (talk) 08:48, 23 April 2021 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 19 April 2021
Remove "online" from the "|single=Singoli online" bit of the Italian certification, as the FIMI site removed the word "online" from that button. See https://www.fimi.it/top-of-the-music/certificazioni/certificazioni.kl#/certifications CAMERAwMUSTACHE (talk) 17:04, 19 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done Elli (talk &#124; contribs) 19:29, 19 April 2021 (UTC)

Brazil certifications - media type filter not working
Currently, the URL for Brazil certifications has a parameter called "tmidia" that is used to distinguish between singles, albums, etc. However, from what I can tell, the parameter has been renamed on the website's UI, so when visiting the Wiki template-generated URLs, the results are not filtered by media type from the full list of certifications. I think the parameter needs to be renamed "busca_tipo_produto", which is what shows up in the URL when submitting new searches from the UI. Some of the acceptable values for this parameter are "ÁLBUM" (notice the acute mark), "CD", "DVD", and "SINGLE". Can someone implement this change? Y2Kcrazyjoker4 (talk &bull; contributions) 19:43, 7 May 2021 (UTC)
 * ✅ I'm not exactly sure how it works, but it seems "ÁLBUM" filters by all album types, and the same for "SINGLE". Let me know if it doesn't work correctly, I don't have an immediate idea how to test it. --Muhandes (talk) 18:33, 15 May 2021 (UTC)

Australia ARIA certifications, redux
The main citation option for ARIA accreditations is pages from the older ARIA website, archived by the Wayback Machine. It now seems ARIA has finally decided to provide a full list of certifications, in this folder. This is already used as the citation option for 2020 and 2021. Should these replace the existing citation option for all other years, or added as a new option? Please leave your opinion in this discussion. --Muhandes (talk) 17:24, 11 July 2021 (UTC)

Swedish position parameter
(or whoever can help) I am trying to use this template for a Swedish single cert at 4 Non Blondes. When I use I get:

"Guld- och Platinacertifikat − År 1987−1998" (PDF) (in Swedish). IFPI Sweden. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-05-17. Retrieved August 24, 2021.

which links to an enormous archive PDF. In that PDF, I see my target: "What's Up?" by 4 Non Blondes at position (CERTNR) 652, dated 19931004, which apparently reached gold (guld). Super! What I can't seem to do is use the position parameter to generate "Scroll to position 652 to view certification". I can only get this when I use chart, but that points to "Sverigetopplistan – 4 Non Blondes", which isn't where I want to go.

Does position only work for the chart and artist variants? Those are only 40 or 60 items long, I believe, but the 1987–1998 archive stretches many (unfortunately unnumbered) pages, to number 1578, and a navigation tip is super helpful here. Or am I (quite possibly) doing something wrong?

Before I go I'd like to curse the PDF file itself. Not only are the pages unnumbered, but I noticed that the Platina column of the table has wrapped, making it next to impossible to determine whether a single has reached platinum, or only gold. The first half of the file lists all of the songs and their gold or non-gold status, and the second half lists platinum or multi-platinum statuses (with no visible connection to the songs listed in the first half). Are you aware of another copy of this file somewhere? Something a bit more ... friendly? Thanks,&mdash; JohnFromPinckney (talk / edits) 15:21, 24 August 2021 (UTC)
 * You have a point, I added support for position for archives as well, aiming at that specific archive. Yes, this file is cursed. I worked with it a bit back in 2011 and I still remember printing it and taping the pages together... Oh, the good old days. No, I am not aware of any alternative (other than aforementioned tape). --Muhandes (talk) 15:49, 24 August 2021 (UTC)
 * SO: good news and bad news, then. Thanks Muhandes, it works delightfully! &mdash; JohnFromPinckney (talk / edits) 17:04, 24 August 2021 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 28 August 2021
The 2020 Australia URL would be better being this one (from the same folder): https://www.dropbox.com/sh/k9o2q7p7o4awhqx/AAAg37tFuJyo-YI2WkNFWDQ9a/2020%20Accreds.pdf

The "List of 2020 Accreds" spreadsheet that's currently linked only goes up to 31 October 2020 (as it says at the top), whereas the "2020 Accreds" PDF covers the whole year. Exallonyx (talk) 12:27, 28 August 2021 (UTC)
 * ✅ * Pppery * it has begun... 19:39, 4 September 2021 (UTC)

Te Reo singles chart in NZ
Today a single was certified in NZ, but the single is currently only charting on the Te Reo Singles chart (not the main or NZ singles chart). Is there a way to change the link to point towards the Te Reo chart, similar to domestic=true? --Prosperosity (talk) 01:44, 7 January 2023 (UTC)


 * @Prosperosity: Apologies for only noticing your request now, I no longer have time to watch any talk pages. Is this still relevant? Is it a common issue? Muhandes (talk) 19:54, 11 June 2023 (UTC)
 * It's only happened once so far, but it will definitely happen again in the future. --Prosperosity (talk) 21:04, 11 June 2023 (UTC)
 * I hate to put code for something that happens once every six months, especially since if you are using Certification Table Entry, you can always use certref to override the certification source. However, if you intend to use it more heavily, I can code it in to ease your life. Muhandes (talk) 21:55, 11 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks! How about we leave it as-is for now, and if it becomes increasingly more common, I could give you the head's up. --Prosperosity (talk) 22:00, 11 June 2023 (UTC)
 * @Prosperosity: Sure thing. Feel free to ping me or post at my talk page if you need anything. Muhandes (talk) 22:03, 11 June 2023 (UTC)

Dutch reference
The Dutch reference makes no sense, it says (in source code). I'm not familiar with the parameters, but I assume certyear should be changed to award. Kind regards, Ennomien (talk) 18:04, 28 July 2023 (UTC)


 * that was added last December by editor, so let's hopefully hear from him before we change it.  P.I. Ellsworth &thinsp;,  ed.  put'er there 18:38, 7 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your reply, @Paine Ellsworth. See for example A Head Full of Dreams (ref 201). It doesn't make sense to select a year in a dropdown menu stating only the statuses "goud" (gold), "platina" (platinum) and "zilver" (silver). Kind regards, Ennomien (talk) 18:44, 7 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Pleasure! and yes, I do see the dilemma. It took me awhile and I finally found it under 2016 - album - platina. Once I even had to click on "Show more" (Toon meer) at the bottom of the chart to find the title. Not sure how to resolve this, because even clicking on "2016" in the "Alle jaargangen" box might not be enough in some instances. I think our code should say  – or it should say  .  P.I. Ellsworth &thinsp;,  ed.  put'er there 19:15, 7 August 2023 (UTC)
 * I guess you missed the first step from the reference, namely "Enter A Head Full of Dreams in the "Artiest of titel" box." Indeed, "Alle statussen" could also be changed to "Alle jaargangen" to fix this inconsistency. Little remark, I think you meant "" instead of "". Ennomien (talk) 20:57, 7 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Just showing my ignorance in all this. Thank you very much for your help! One doesn't really have to enter anything else once the title has been entered.  P.I. Ellsworth &thinsp;, ed.  put'er there 21:04, 7 August 2023 (UTC)
 * I think you're right about that. Other information apart from the title should not be necessary. Ennomien (talk) 22:55, 7 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Went ahead and changed "statussen" to "jaargangen" for now, as can be seen on the [testcases page].  P.I. Ellsworth &thinsp;, ed.  put'er there 01:17, 8 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks for changing! Maybe consider adding a dot to close the sentence. I just saw that it is missing. Ennomien (talk) 10:24, 8 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks for handling this. I'm occupied in real life and have almost no time at all to edit these days. Muhandes (talk) 17:42, 13 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Happy to help!  Paine  19:07, 13 August 2023 (UTC)

Outdated Russian certification links
The Russian certification link on Certification Cite/URL currently leads to a porn site and should be fixed. The article about million sales itself is not archived, so it probably makes sense to change it to a higher level article https://web.archive.org/web/20110724033119/http://www.2m-online.ru/gold_n_platinum/ which contains a link to an unarchived article. There is also an article on working site which does not seem to be a reliable source, but at the same time it states they collected data from 2m-online.ru and this looks accurate. The article is https://bestsellingalbums.org/list-of-best-selling-albums-in-russia/, so this is another option if availability of information is more important than a non-working reliable source. Solidest (talk) 09:47, 20 October 2023 (UTC)
 * 2009–2012 links also should be fixed:
 * 2007 = https://web.archive.org/web/20090809124202/http://2m-online.ru/gold_n_platinum/detail.php?COUNTRY=5077 (later cache has more entries)
 * 2009 = https://webcitation.org/5kkNUOygo?url=http://2m-online.ru/gold_n_platinum/detail.php?COUNTRY=5216 (www version is no longer working)
 * 2010 = https://web.archive.org/web/20110207025213/https://lenta.ru/articles/2011/02/05/chart/ or https://webcitation.org/63UjF9g0f (html has sales numbers, but top50 only, while pdf has top150)
 * 2011 = https://web.archive.org/web/20120310114015/https://lenta.ru/articles/2012/03/09/chart/ or https://webcitation.org/666alX1Ce
 * 2012 = https://web.archive.org/web/20130115073750/https://lenta.ru/articles/2012/12/28/chart/ or https://webcitation.org/6DcDQKbff . Solidest (talk) 10:48, 20 October 2023 (UTC)
 * ✅ I went with the HTML pages over the PDF ones for 2010-2012 because webcitation.org has been down for long periods of time in the past so I figured it was preferable to use web.archive.org where possible. * Pppery * it has begun... 22:21, 27 October 2023 (UTC)

Swiss certifications
Hi, there's a problem about the following template to insert Swiss certifications on discographies articles:

When you click on it, there's a type of error message:

Microsoft OLE DB Provider for SQL Server error '80040e14' Incorrect syntax near the keyword 'INSERT'. /search_certifications.asp, line 85

Apparently, this message is got with any artist inserted on the command "artist=".

Could anyone fix this, please? LuanCampSouza93 (talk) 12:56, 21 November 2023 (UTC)


 * ✅ Indeed, it stopped working, even if used directly from their website. I found a workaround, replacing spaces with underscores. Let me know if it still fails. Feel free to contact me directly in the future as I don't have time to follow any pages. Muhandes (talk) 09:50, 1 December 2023 (UTC)
 * I forgot to say that the same is occuring with the command: Certification Table Entry|region=Switzerland|artist=|title=|award=|type=|relyear=|certyear=
 * But it returns the following message: Sorry, keine Einträge gefunden in der Schweizer Hitparade LuanCampSouza93 (talk) 12:16, 1 December 2023 (UTC)
 * I don't follow. Can you provide an article where this problem occurs? Muhandes (talk) 12:35, 1 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Apparently, it's happening in every article about albums and singles that were certified in Switzerland. I'm going to insert some articles here to use as example:
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_Days
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stadium_Arcadium
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Idiot
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_(Beatles_album)
 * When you access these articles and click at Swiss certs, it returns that message I inserted on my previous replying, and I only can find it through manual search. LuanCampSouza93 (talk) 14:40, 1 December 2023 (UTC)


 * An ampersand between artist and title in the link seems to fix this problem: http://www.swisscharts.com/search_certifications.asp?search=Gorillaz&Demon_Days . Solidest (talk) 16:54, 1 December 2023 (UTC)
 * The problem still persists, I don't really know what is going on. LuanCampSouza93 (talk) 00:26, 2 December 2023 (UTC)
 * adding an ampersand does not really fix the problem, it ignores the title. Muhandes (talk) 19:09, 2 December 2023 (UTC)
 * What was going on was that Solidest suggested a solution, they didn't say they implemented it, nor could they since they are not template editors. The problem was that someone added the option to use both artist and title but used incorrect code to use it and didn't document the change at all. It should all work now. Muhandes (talk) 19:10, 2 December 2023 (UTC)
 * This is still a bit inaccurate, as for example with the Beatles album on the link above - there are just so many results that the needed album doesn't make it to the page. I think in this particular example it can be fixed by changing the title in the template to "The Beatles - 1", but I think there will be other similar cases where this won't help. I'm not sure how to fix it, as it's true that ampersand sets a new parameter in the link, rather than adding it to the search. Perhaps searching by artist name will be less accurate, but at least it will always show the right result? UPD: Although I see that you left both options that we can use separately either title or artist, then it's fine. Well done! Solidest (talk) 20:50, 2 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Exactly, both options are viable, as well as just using certyear. Every editor is responsible for finding the best citation format for each individual case. Muhandes (talk) 21:53, 2 December 2023 (UTC)

Spanish certifications
Hi. Now, PROMUSICAE has a database with certifications, available through El portal de Música site: https://www.elportaldemusica.es/awards/index

I think it would be interesting to insert a command to make possible the research through this link I inserted. Does someone agree? LuanCampSouza93 (talk) 18:02, 22 November 2023 (UTC)


 * Interesting. I see it can be called programmatically, so we can add an option to certify by title or by artist, for example Madonna or Hard Candy. Was this what you had in mind? Muhandes (talk) 09:58, 1 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Yes, I was thinking about this. Specially, this link can be useful in cases that the certifcation can't be found on charts or even through the commands https://www.elportaldemusica.es/album/albumname and https://www.elportaldemusica.es/single/singlename. I already found some certs that aren't on the charts neither in that commands. LuanCampSouza93 (talk) 12:12, 1 December 2023 (UTC)
 * I'll add this to my TDL. Muhandes (talk) 12:36, 1 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Ok, I'll be waiting. Leave a warning when it's finished. LuanCampSouza93 (talk) 21:40, 2 December 2023 (UTC)
 * I finished implementing and testing the solution, and suddenly the entire search stopped working. This might be a temporary website glitch or maybe some cookie magic. For now I am delaying the implementation until we figure it out. Muhandes (talk) 17:19, 10 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Yes, I have noted this. There's several certs that were deleted from this archive, I don't know why. LuanCampSouza93 (talk) 01:52, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
 * It seems to be back. I really don't know how stable it is. --Muhandes (talk) 06:06, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Apparently, the problem still persists to me. There's a lot of certifications missing, and depending of the artist, it returns the message:
 * "Sorry
 * No awards have been founds that fulfil the established criteria" LuanCampSouza93 (talk) 22:15, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
 * I think it might be a cookie thing. Can you try on an Incognito window? If it is a cookie thing, I'm hesitant to use this as a source. Muhandes (talk) 09:29, 12 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Apparently, the certs were recovered by now. I think you can go on to create a template for this. I hope there's no any longer issues. LuanCampSouza93 (talk) 18:02, 19 December 2023 (UTC)
 * It has been some time; I'm sorry I was unable to attend to this. I checked now and the website seems to work well so I reinstated the template option to use artist and/or title t search the new database. I checked it on Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen song), The Wall, List of best-selling music artists and Whitney Houston and it seems to work. Please let me know if there are any problems. Otherwise, this is ✅. Also pinging who I'm sure will be happy to know this is available. Muhandes (talk) 10:17, 1 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Also pinging who has been using this website. Two clarifications. First and maybe obvious, this change enabled the same feature on Certification Table Entry. Second, you must not specify certweek for this feature to work. For backwards compatibility, Specifying certweek reverts to the much older style of citation, e.g., . I hope this feature is helpful. --Muhandes (talk) 10:38, 1 July 2024 (UTC)

Dutch certs
Hi. The NVPI link with Dutch certs was just updated. Now, it includes Diamond ones: https://nvpi.nl/nvpi-audio/marktinformatie/goud-platina-diamant/ LuanCampSouza93 (talk) 21:08, 18 December 2023 (UTC)


 * ✅ I just noticed that I fixed this issue on January, sorry for not noting it. Muhandes (talk) 12:00, 13 June 2024 (UTC)

Italian certs
About discographies whose include FIMI certs, I think would be needed a little change in command on the phrase: "Select "Tutti gli anni" in the "Anno" drop-down menu. Select "Artist" in the "Filtra" field. Select "Tutte le sezioni" under "Sezione"." Where is "Select "Artist"", it could be "Type "Artist"" instead, similar to BPI certs command, for example, that's "Type Artist in the "Search BPI Awards" field and then press Enter", due to manual search needed in this case. LuanCampSouza93 (talk) 01:48, 31 December 2023 (UTC)

ARIA certification links
ARIA certification links were updated to the April 2024 version which is the latest available. --Muhandes (talk) 06:52, 14 June 2024 (UTC)

Shrinking certification units - Portugal edition
With Coldplay's song Yellow and a 5× platinum level song reaches 200,000 units in Portugal (at least that was what was shown in the table). But with a new 6× platinum level it then shrinks down to 60,000. How does that even work? How does something that it took to accumulate 200k then it gets lowered to 60k? Dhoffryn (talk) 20:44, 11 July 2024 (UTC)