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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 ...
You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work; to remix – to adapt the work; Under the following conditions: attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses ...
PDF is auto-detected and should not be specified. Does not change the external link icon (except for PDF). Note: External link icons do not include alt text; thus, they do not add file format information for the visually impaired. (This is not a concern with PDF, because the auto-detection will add "(PDF)" as descriptive text.) See Using |format=
Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. ... Year article header/year number/doc. Add languages. ... Download as PDF;
Month-and-day articles (e.g. February 24 and 10 July) and year articles (e.g. 1795, 1955, 2007) should not be linked unless the linked date or year has a significant connection to the subject of the linking article, beyond that of the date itself, so that the linking enhances the reader's understanding of the subject. For example:
The "See also" section should not include red links, links to disambiguation pages (unless used in a disambiguation page for further disambiguation), or external links (including links to pages within Wikimedia sister projects). As a general rule, the "See also" section should not repeat links that appear in the article's body. [9]
decorative icons (icons carrying no information or associated with a text providing similar information) need to be unlinked and have an empty alt text (|link=|alt=). When they are not able to be unlinked, a minimal alt text will suffice. Note that images in headers can be particularly annoying for screen reader users if they are badly handled ...
Autodiscovery mechanism (how the linking server finds out how and where to send the notification) None LINK tag in the header of the linked page or trackback RDF documents Special HTTP header or LINK tag on the linked page HTTP Link header or link element on the linked page Action required when notification is received