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Template:Rotten Tomatoes displays an external link to a page at the Rotten Tomatoes website. It is intended for use in the external links section of an article.
Usage
- Unnamed parameters
{{Rotten Tomatoes | ID }}{{Rotten Tomatoes | ID | TITLE or NAME }}
- Named parameters
{{Rotten Tomatoes | id= ID }}{{Rotten Tomatoes | id= ID | title= TITLE }}{{Rotten Tomatoes | id= ID | name= NAME }}
- Using Wikidata property
{{Rotten Tomatoes}}{{Rotten Tomatoes | title= TITLE }}{{Rotten Tomatoes | name= NAME }}
Instructions
- Go to RottenTomatoes.com and search for a title or person. On the results page, click the appropriate link.
- The page for a movie should have a URL (shown in your browser's address bar) like this:
- https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/<ID>
- where
m/<ID>is Rotten Tomatoes' ID for this page.
- The page for a movie's reviews should have a URL (shown in your browser's address bar) like this:
- https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/<ID>/reviews
- For instance, the pages for The Time Travelers (1964) are:
- Note however, that the ID for many movies will simply be their complete title in all-lowercase, without punctuation, and with underscores replacing spaces. For instance, the pages for To Kill A Mockingbird (1962) are:
- Add the following text to the "External links" section of your movie article:
- * {{Rotten Tomatoes|m/<ID>|<TITLE>}}
- replacing <ID> with the ID you found and <TITLE> with the title as you wish it to appear. For example:
- * {{Rotten Tomatoes|m/incredibles|The Incredibles}}
- * {{Rotten Tomatoes|m/incredibles/reviews|The Incredibles}}
- will result in the following:
- See the examples below for links to Rotten Tomatoes web pages about TV series, franchises, celebrities, and critics.
Examples
- Movie or film (ID without prefix, retained for compatibility)
- https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1021517_time_travelers
* {{Rotten Tomatoes | 1021517-time_travelers | The Time Travelers }}- https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1021517_time_travelers/reviews
* {{Rotten Tomatoes | 1021517-time_travelers/reviews | The Time Travelers }}
- Movie or film (ID with m/ prefix)
- https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/xmen
* {{Rotten Tomatoes | m/xmen | X-Men }}- https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/xmen/reviews
* {{Rotten Tomatoes | m/xmen/reviews | X-Men }}
- TV series (ID with tv/ prefix)
- https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/legion
* {{Rotten Tomatoes | tv/legion | Legion }}
- Franchise (ID with franchise/ prefix)
- https://www.rottentomatoes.com/franchise/x-men
* {{Rotten Tomatoes | franchise/x-men | X-Men: Movies and TV Shows }}
- Movie/TV person (ID with celebrity/ prefix)
- https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/luc_besson
* {{Rotten Tomatoes | celebrity/luc_besson | Luc Besson }}
- Movie/TV critic (ID with critic/ prefix)
- https://www.rottentomatoes.com/critic/richard-brody
* {{Rotten Tomatoes | critic/richard-brody | Richard Brody }}
Duplication concerns
In accordance with the external links duplication guideline, it is acceptable to use Rotten Tomatoes as both an inline citation (supporting a Tomatometer score or critic consensus summary) and an external link.
TemplateData
TemplateData for Rotten Tomatoes
This template generates an external link to a page for a film title at the Rotten Tomatoes website.
| Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID | 1 id | The ID portion of the URL. Examples: 1021517_time_travelers or m/1021517_time_travelers, m/1021517_time_travelers/reviews, m/x-men, m/x-men/reviews, franchise/x-men, tv/legion, celebrity/luc_besson, critic/richard-brody. This parameter is optional if Wikidata property P1258 exists, but required if not.
| String | optional |
| Title or name | 2 title name | Title of movie/film or TV series, or name of person, used as the link text. The template uses italic type for titles (IDs with m/, tv/, franchise/ prefix) and non-italic for people (IDs with celebrity/ or critic/ prefix). This parameter is optional; it defaults to the Wikipedia article name, without any disambiguation such as "(film)" or "(director)".
| String | optional |
Tracking categories
- Category:Rotten Tomatoes template missing ID and not in Wikidata (16)
- Category:Rotten Tomatoes template using name parameter (7,757)
See also
- Similar film title templates
- {{IMDb title}}
- {{AllMovie title}}
- {{TCMDb title}}
- {{AFI film}}
- {{Metacritic film}}
- {{Mojo title}}