ଛାଞ୍ଚ:Cleanup-bare URLs

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{Bare links}
{Bare refs}
{Link rot}

This template will add tagged articles to a cleanup category according to the month and year given.

What is a bare URL?

A bare URL is a link to a website with no identifying information except the link itself. It is not just a citation style that leaves the URL visible to the reader. Fully visible URLs are required by some citation styles, such as the MLA style. However, these visible URLs should be accompanied by useful descriptions of the page being linked, such as information about the author, title, and/or publication.

Bare URLs—add this tag

http://www.example.org/page.html
[୧]

Good citations—do not add this tag

Fuster V, Walsh RA, Harrington RA, eds. Hurst's The Heart. 13th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill; 2011. http://www.accessmedicine.com/content.aspx?aID=7812984.
Fuster V, Walsh RA, Harrington RA, eds. Hurst's The Heart. 13th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill; 2011.[୨]

How to use

Before adding this template, please head over to toollabs:refill, paste the name of this page into the text box, and click the "Fix page" button. Wait patiently for the program to finish filling in all citation templates for each bare reference. When the result page is loaded, please double-check the changes made in the diff preview on the result page and fix the errors before clicking the "Preview / Save on wiki" button at the bottom. References that could not be filled in with the tool will be listed on the page. On the actual editing interface on-wiki, you may wish to check the changes once again and use Ohconfucius's scripts to automatically correct some mistakes. When everything looks fine, click the "Save page" button to save your changes.

If there are references you failed to fix or you need assistance in fixing them, paste this at the top of the references section of an article with bare-URL references:

{Cleanup-bare URLs|date=ଫେବୃଆରୀ ୨୦୨୫}

Save the page. Someone else may click on the reFill tool link on the template to fix the bare references semi-automatically, or manually correct them.

A manual of the tool is available on User:Zhaofeng Li/reFill.

This template will add tagged articles to Category:Articles needing link rot cleanup and Category:Wikipedia cleanup, or a dated subcategory thereof. If no date was added, a bot will add it later. It will also be added to Category:Articles covered by WikiProject Wikify.

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{Bare references}
{Bare refs}
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{Bare urls}
{Bareurls}
{BareURLs}
{Bare-URLs}
{Cleanup link rot}
{Cleanup link-rot}
{Cleanup-link-rot}
{Cleanup-linkrot}
{Link rot}
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ଛାଞ୍ଚ:Cleanup-bare URLs

What is a bare URL?

How to use

Redirects

See also