Template:Infobox Documentary/doc

name of documentary; you must give this variable a value
Subject:	a brief summary of the subject of the documentary; you must give this variable a value
Original to DVD	if the documentary debuted on DVD, put the name of the DVD here; if a DW story, the name of the DVD is deemed to be the name of the story
Original to VHS	if the documentary debuted on VHS, put the name of the DVD here; if a DW story, the name of the VHS is deemed to be the name of the story
Original to CD	if the documentary debuted on an audio CD, put the name of that CD here
Also available on the home video release of:	if a documentary has been made available on home video, put the name of that video here
Also available on the home audio release of:	if a documentary has been made available on home audio, put the name of the CD here
Broadcast on:	put original channel of broadcast here
Broadcast with:	if the documentary debuted alongside another broadcast (as in the intermission of a D
Broadcast date:	if documentary was originally broadcast, put broadcast date here
Release date:	if documentary was originally published as a home video/audio, put release date here
Runtime:	put length of documentary here
Key crew
Interviewer:	put the name of any interviewers here
Interviewee:	put the names of the major interviewees here
Narrator:	put the name of the credited narrator here
Uncredited narrator:	put the name of the uncredited narrator here
Director:	put the name of the director here
Producer:	put the name of the producer here
Executive producer:	put the name of the exec here
name of series of which documentary is a part — this might be a series on DVDs (like the "Stripped for Action" series) or might be a broadcast documentary series (like "On Show")
Next →	if part of a series, put next entry here

Infobox Documentary/doc is a template that can be used for any documentary, whether audio or video, broadcast or DVD special feature. Because it is a multi-media template, no single page will use all the variables the template enables. Please use the template to include information primarily about the original public form of the documentary. However, if a documentary once available elsewhere has since been repurposed for a home audio or video release, the infobox does allow you to list details about the secondary (and in most cases, more well-known) home for the documentary.

Auto-linking variables

Note that many of this template's variables are fully self-linking. Thus, to indicate that Alex Price was the narrator of an episode, you would enter simply:

narrator=Alex Price

not

narrator=[[Alex Price]]

If you look in the sample infobox to your right, all the variables whose values are in red are auto-linking variables. All the ones in black require you to manually type in the [[brackets]] yourself.

Non-linking variables

There are, however, some cases where you must still put the brackets in yourself.

Dates

Broadcast and release date variables do not auto-link. These dates must be entered as:

broadcast date=[[12th May]] [[2006]]

Variables which can have multiple responses

In cases where more than one individual is expected by a variable, the variable is not auto-linking. The most obvious example of this is the interviewee variable. Almost every documentary has more than one interviewee, so this variable doesn't link. It would be entered thus:

interviewee = [[David Tennant]], [[Catherine Tate]], [[Russell T Davies]]

There are a whole class of variables which ordinarily expect only one person, but which can, in special cases, take more than one. For example, there's normally only one narrator on a project. However, for those cases where there's more than one, you'd use the non-linking variable, "multiple narrators". Here's a simple list.

Singular the template links for you	Plural you supply the [[brackets]]
narrator	multiple narrators
producer	multiple producers
executive producer	multiple execs
interviewer	multiple interviewers

Also, the narrator, interviewer and interviewee variables are non-linking to allow for the entry of more than one person. Likewise, the subject variable is free-form, as is the variable "original to web".

Usage

Copy and paste all of the text below onto whichever article page it is needed for (even if some fields are not needed, copy all of the text).

{{Infobox Doc
|image                 =
|subject               =
|name                  =
|series                =
|original to DVD       =
|original to VHS       =
|original to CD        =
|original to web       =
|channel               =
|broadcast with        =
|home video            =
|home audio            =
|narrator              =
|multiple narrators    =
|interviewer           =
|multiple interviewers =
|interviewee           =
|uncredited narrator   =
|director              =
|producer              =
|multiple producers    =
|executive producer    =
|multiple execs        =
|broadcast date        =
|release date          =
|runtime               =
|previous              =
|next                  =
}}

The sample output at right gives a description of what each of the fields are for. Due to the auto-linking nature of the template, some of the text may be slightly obscured by stray coding elements.