Template:Credit line/doc

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Template adds Credit line field to {{Information}} template 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= }}

Template parameters

Parameter	Description		Default	Status
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 GDFL licenses but optional for rare {{Attribution}} or CC-BY licenses. Use word 'skip' to omit license section.		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: all users

Placement:

Has to be placed as a value of other_fields field of {{Information}} template

Relies on:
{{Information field}}

See also

Commons:Credit line, Category:Attribution templates

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 "|xx= Your translation " (xx being the code of your language)

Example

{{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-3.0 & GDFL}}
}}

will produce:

DescriptionCredit line/doc	description
Date	9 June 2008
Source	Own work
Author	John Doe
Attribution (required by the license) InfoField	© John Doe / Wikimedia Commons /
InfoField	© John Doe / Wikimedia Commons