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Inline linking (also known as hotlinking, piggy-backing, direct linking, offsite image grabs, bandwidth theft, [1] and leeching) is the use of a linked object, often an image, on one site by a web page belonging to a second site. One site is said to have an inline link to the other site where the object is located.
Don't wikilink these; instead use author-link to link to the appropriate wikipedia article. Does not work with URLs. More authors can be added as author2 author3 etc. as can first, last pairs of parameters. When there are multiple authors, both author2-link and author-link2 allow links to multiple authors' Wikipedia pages.
Wikipedia:Inline citation – more information on inline citations; Wikipedia:Nesting footnotes – how-to guide on "nesting" footnotes; Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Layout § Further reading – for information about the "Further reading" section; Wikipedia:External links – for information about the "External links" section
On Wikipedia, an inline citation is generally a citation in a page's text placed by any method that allows the reader to associate a given bit of material with specific reliable source(s) that support it. The most common method is numbered footnotes within the text, but other forms are also used on occasion.
Links may be excessive even if they are informative. For example, because inline links present relatively small tap targets on touchscreen devices, placing several separate inline links close together within a section of text can make navigation more difficult for readers, especially if they have limited dexterity or coordination.
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In addition to either of these systems, many Wikipedia articles also use embedded HTML links to refer to online texts. Note that no matter which inline-citation system is used, all the sources used in an article should be listed at the end in a ==References== section.
Less commonly, interlanguage links can be used as inline links in the text of a Wikipedia page using the {{Interlanguage link}} template. These two types of links are created and handled differently. Links in the "Languages" list