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Check whether there have been previous warnings/blocks for linking to the site. If it is principally new users who add the links and/or genuine users are likely to have reasonable justification for adding them, using XLinkBot might be better. Use Special:Linksearch to find all links to the site you are going to blacklist and remove them. This ...
Link rot (also called link death, link breaking, or reference rot) is the phenomenon of hyperlinks tending over time to cease to point to their originally targeted file, web page, or server due to that resource being relocated to a new address or becoming permanently unavailable.
To repair an external link to one of these sites from Wikipedia, remove the link and replace it with an archived version of the original as described at Wikipedia:Link rot/Usurpations. There is an automated system for usurping entire domains. See WP:URLREQ to register all links in a domain for usurpation treatment.
External links and references are two important elements of Wikipedia that newcomers sometimes find trouble with. This page is designed to cover only the technical aspects of linking and referencing; it is essential that editors also familiarize themselves with Wikipedia:External links, Wikipedia:Reliable sources and Wikipedia:Citing sources, as well as Wikipedia's various other policies ...
Go to the page you want to delete, in this case Wikipedia:Administrators' guide/Deleting/delete2. Click on the Delete link in the Tools menu. This won't immediately delete the page—you'll review the deletion on a separate screen. (On some skins, this may be in the More drop-down near the search box.) Using the Reason: menu, select a reason ...
A template to indicate that the preceding URL is dead Template parameters [Edit template data] This template prefers inline formatting of parameters. Parameter Description Type Status Month and year date The month and year the URL was found to be dead, like "June 2013" Auto value {{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}} String suggested Bot name bot The name of the bot used to identify ...
External links use URLs to link directly to any web page. External links are enclosed in single square brackets (rather than double brackets as with internal links), with the optional link text separated from the URL by a space (not a "|" as with internal links). When rendered, external links are followed by an external link icon. For example,
A plainlink is a link external to en.wikipedia.org, but in this case not followed by an external link icon. It is used for links internal to en.wikipedia.org which require special URL parameters and therefore cannot be reached by wikilinks.