Template:Infobox Documentary/doc

', or ', 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=12 May (releases) 2006 (releases)

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).

The sample output at right gives a description of what each of the fields are for.