Template:Dead end
This article has no links to other VDC articles. Please help improve this article by adding links that are relevant to the context within the existing text.
- This template should be added to articles which have no internal links. Articles which have some internal links, but are in need of more, should be tagged with
instead.{{underlinked}}
- An optional parameter can be specified to give other Wikipedians an idea of what general topic this article covers so that they may add links relevant to it.
- This template will add pages to Category:Dead end or one of its dated subcategories.
- If a parameter is provided such as
{{Dead end|date=October 2024}}
then the page is put into a by-date category instead. Another way to do this is to paste the following to the page:{{subst:Dead end}}
If the date is left out, a bot will add it. - The simplest way to add this template to an article is to copy and paste {{Dead end}} to the top of an article.
- Please do not include Category pages.
- Date tagging syntax:
{{Dead end|date=October 2024}}
or{{Dead end|section|date=October 2024}}
Finding dead-end articles
- Check Special:Whatlinkshere/Template:Dead end to find articles tagged with this template.
- Special:DeadendPages gives the most recent database report.
- Wikipedia:Dead end tells you how to help.
See also
– for articles that need more internal links{{Underlinked}}
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Linking – guidelines as to when links should and should not be used, and how to format links
- Help:Link – detailed information about the syntax used to create links
- WP:Manual of Style/Disambiguation pages – rules on linking applicable to disambiguation pages
The above documentation is transcluded from Template:Dead end/doc. (Edit | Page history)
Editors can experiment in this template's sandbox (create | mirror) and testcases (create) pages.