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Affiliate, tracking or referral links, i.e., links that contain information about who is to be credited for readers that follow the link. If the source itself is helpful, use a neutral link without the tracking information. External links on Wikipedia navigation templates or navigation pages such as disambiguation, redirect and category pages.
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 ...
(There is a related set of templates for some free content resources that are not run by the Wikimedia Foundation. Rather than creating a sidebar link, they create text suitable for using as a bulleted entry in an "External links" section. A list of such templates can be found at Wikipedia:List of templates linking to other free content projects.)
Inline citations are usually small, numbered footnotes like this. [1] They are generally added either directly following the fact that they support, or at the end of the sentence that they support, following any punctuation.
What Links Here" also has a "show redirects" report, but it doesn't specify if the redirect goes to any particular section.) Use "What Links Here" on any redirect pages found in the previous step. Use {} to create a group of search links that will each report some links to a section. It can work with only one page name at a time.
The primary link is switched to the archive link when |url-status=dead. This retains the original link location for reference. This retains the original link location for reference. If the web page now leads to a completely different website, set |url-status=usurped to hide the original website link in the citation.
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You can "deep link" to a section of an article (or other Wikipedia page), using a hash character (#), then the section's title, with underscore characters (_) replacing spaces.