Template:Cite tweet
@{{{user}}} ({{{date}}}). "{{{title}}}" – via Twitter.
Use this template instead of {{cite web}} to use a tweet as a reference. Always keep the notability policies in mind when using Twitter (or other social media platforms) as a reference.
Copy a blank version to use. All parameter names must be in lowercase. Use the "|" (pipe) character between each parameter. Delete unused parameters to avoid clutter in the edit window. Some samples may include the current date. If the date is not current, then
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TemplateData for Cite tweet
A template for citing tweets posted on Twitter
Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
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number | number | Numerical ID of the tweet | Number | required |
username | user | Twitter account name, without the @ | String | required |
tweet | title | Partial or entire content of the tweet, optionally including hashtags (#), at signs (@), and links. Note: double quote marks (") should be replaced with single quote marks (') because the entire title will display surrounded by double quotes. | String | required |
author | author | Author's real name, if known. If not known, then the tweet is probably not an acceptable usage of a self-published source (see [[WP:SPS]]) | Unknown | suggested |
author's article | author-link authorlink | Title of existing Nonbinary Wiki article about the author | Unknown | optional |
retweeted by | retweet | The reliable source who retweeted the tweet, if the original tweeter is not anyone particularly notable. May be wikilinked. | Unknown | optional |
date | date | date of the tweet; do not wikilink; do not include time. Note: a tweet's timestamp is in your local timezone, and may need to be adjusted to UTC. | Unknown | required |
access date | access-date accessdate | The full date when the tweet was accessed; do not wikilink | Unknown | optional |
language | language | The language in which the tweet is written, if not in English.
| String | optional |
location | location | The location from which a tweet was sent.
| String | optional |
archive URL | archive-url archiveurl | The URL of an archived copy of a web page, if or in case the URL becomes unavailable; requires 'archive-date' | String | optional |
archive date | archive-date archivedate | Date when the original URL was archived; do not wikilink | String | optional |
URL status | url-status | If set to 'live', the title displays as the live link; if set to dead, the title displays as the archive link | String | optional |
script tweet | script-title | For tweets in languages that do not use a Latin-based alphabet (Arabic, Chinese, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, etc). Prefix with two-character ISO639-1 language code followed by a colon, e.g. for Japanese use: ja:...
| Unknown | optional |
translated tweet | trans-title | An English language translation, if the tweet cited is in a foreign language; use of 'language' parameter is recommended | Unknown | optional |
Link to Twitter article? | link | Set to "no" to not link to the Wikipedia article for Twitter. Useful for preventing overlinking when more than one tweet is cited. | Unknown | optional |
Date format | df | Valid values: dmy, dmy-all, mdy, mdy-all | Unknown | optional |