Template:Infobox movie/doc

infobox movie is used to list at-a-glance comparative information about a particular motion picture.

Usage
The infobox may be added by pasting the template as shown below into an article, typically at the top of an article above the lead section.

Parameters
All parameters are optional.

Examples


Image
Ideally, an image of the movie's original theatrical release poster should be uploaded and added to the infobox to serve as an identifying image for the article. Poster images can be found at websites such as Internet Movie Poster Awards or Internet Movie Poster Database. If a poster image cannot be found for the movie, or if the movie did not have a theatrical release, then a cover image of the movie's display case (VHS, DVD, etc.) may be used instead. Cover images can be found at commercial websites such as Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk. In the absence of an appropriate poster or cover image, a screenshot of the movie's title card may also be used. When replacing an existing image, upload the new image over the old image (where possible), and update the relevant details on the image description page. Click here to find instructions for uploading non-free images.

Once uploaded, place the file name of the image, e.g., MOVIE TITLE poster.jpg (or a similar description), in the  field of the infobox, but do not include the   part of the file name. The  field only needs to be filled if the width of the image is less than 200 pixels (the default image width used by the infobox); enter the actual width of the image, in pixels, so it is not stretched in the infobox. The  field should describe the image, i.e., identifying it as "Theatrical release poster" or "DVD cover"; repeating the title of the movie here is not necessary. Below is an example of how to use the fields:

| name          = MOVIE TITLE | image         = MOVIE TITLE poster.jpg | image_size    = 150 | caption       = Theatrical release poster

Release dates
The movie infobox is too small to reproduce the long lists of release dates provided by the Internet Movie Database. Release dates should therefore be restricted to the movie's earliest release, whether it was at a movie festival or a public release, and the release date(s) in the country or countries that produced the movie, excluding sneak previews or screenings. Start date should be used for the movie's initial release. If other release dates are found to be notable, it may be appropriate to include them in the main body of the article (example).

Release dates for straight-to-video and television movies should follow the preceding guideline for home releases and airings, respectively.

Some users like to use flag icons instead of country names. However, this should be avoided, as flags are less recognizable than country names. See Manual of Style (flags) for a more detailed rationale.

IMDb, Allmovie, and other external links
When this infobox template was first created, in December 2004, one of the parameters created an external link to the Internet Movie Database (IMDb). Irrespective of the fact that IMDb is not used as a reliable source for verifying content in Wikipedia articles, it still is a resource that many people, including editors and readers of Wikipedia, often turn to.

In more recent years, additional external websites have become increasingly useful resources, including Allmovie, Box Office Mojo, Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes. Also, modern movies almost invariably have an official website. As a consequence, new external links were added to and removed from the infobox as consensus changed on the subject.

Discussions about the fate of these links took place in numerous places over some time, with a number of people advocating removal of all external links from the infobox, if not the article as a whole. Others spoke of the value of having at least a link to IMDb in the infobox. Eventually, a far from undisputed consensus arose to remove all external links from the infobox and to move them to the External links section where appropriate in view of the External links guideline.

Important points towards this consensus included fact that the infobox could not include all of the available links and that it would be inappropriate to pick and choose one or a few of those links over others. Suggestions that losing access to the most useful of the available links (typically IMDb) would damage the usefulness of movie articles were not found persuasive by many since such links could still be included in the External links section and the table of contents linking to the external links section having all of the useful external links is adjacent the infobox.

External links to resources such as the Internet Movie Database (IMDb), Allmovie and any official website are no longer included in this template. Nevertheless, these resources and others may be usefully added to the "External links" section of the article using the following templates:



Related pages

 * MOS:FILM
 * infobox television film
 * infobox Korean film
 * infobox Chinese film
 * infobox Bond film
 * infobox Hollywood cartoon

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