Template:Bare URL inline

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This template is an inline alternative to {{Cleanup bare URLs}}.

Usage

Paste this after a bare-URL reference/link:

{{Bare URL inline|date=November 2024}}

It is best to place the tag inside a citation, just before the closing </ref> tag:

• <ref>https://www.salon.com/2020/01/31/the-disaster-of-utopian-engineering_partner/ {{bare URL inline|date=November 2024}}</ref>
  • Result:

References

This will still categorize the page for cleanup without cluttering the present paragraph with "^{[bare URL]}", and it will also help track down the citation to improve by keeping the cleanup tag in the citation. It also allows the tag to be removed by tools such as WP:reFill and Citation bot if they fill the reference with a citation template.

When doing it this way, the date must be manually entered; it cannot be done with the {{Bare URL inline|{{subst:DATE}}}} shortcut method, because template substitution does not work inside <ref>...</ref> tags.

Tracking categories

• This template places the article into both of the following categories:
  • Category:All articles with bare URLs for citations — 266 pages
  • Category:Articles with bare URLs for citations or a dated subcategory thereof, currently
    • Category:Articles with bare URLs for citations from November 2024 — 0 pages

Why?

See WP:Bare URLs

How to respond to this tag

See WP:HOWCITE

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData documentation for this template used by VisualEditor and other tools.

Bare URL inline

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An inline template which indicates that a reference contains a bare URL, which may be threatened by link rot. It is best to place the tag inside a citation, just before the closing </ref> tag.

Template parameters

This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
Reason	reason	A brief reason for the tag. Avoid using wikilinks, as they will be converted to plain text in the output.	Unknown	optional
Month and year	date	Month and year of tagging; e.g., 'January 2013', but not 'jan13' Auto value {{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}	String	suggested

See also

• {{Bare URL PDF}}
• {{Bare URL AV media}}
• {{Bare URL DOC}}
• {{Bare URL image}}
• {{Bare URL plain text}}
• {{Bare URL spreadsheet}}
• {{Cleanup bare URLs}}
• {{Citations broken}}
• Wikipedia:Link rot
• Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup

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