Template:Credit line

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Template adds Credit line field to {{Information}} or {{Artwork}} templates 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=}}

Parameters

Parameter name	Description	Default value	required or optional?
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 GFDL licenses but optional for rare {{Attribution}} or CC-BY licenses. Use word 'skip' to omit license section. License should have a name of the license and link to the license. Several shortcuts were defined to more popular licenses (see table below)	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)

Hardwired license Shortcuts

Example of code for use with {{Information}} template

{{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-SA-3.0 & GFDL}}
}}

will produce:

Example of code for use with {{Artwork}} template

Also use this code for use with {{Book}} template.

{{Artwork
|Description=description
|Source=John Doe ({{own}})
|Author=unknown
|Date=1900
|other_fields={{Credit line |Author = © John Doe | Other = Wikimedia Commons |License = CC-BY-SA-3.0 & GFDL}}
}}

will produce:

Example with different values for all parameters

{{Information
|Description=description
|Source={{own}}
|Author=[[User:Example]]
|Date=2008-06-09
|other_fields={{Credit line |Author = [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Example User:Example] |License = [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ CC-BY-SA-2.0]}}
}}

will produce: