Template:Underlinked

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This tag should be applied to articles which need additional internal links. Please note: there is no consensus on what constitutes "too few" links. Use editor discretion, and if you disagree a given article needs this tag, discuss it with the editor that placed it on the talk page, unless you deem it uncontroversial to simply remove the tag (perhaps the article has seen considerable improvement since the tag was placed?)
Articles with no internal links at all can instead be tagged with {{dead end}}.
This template will add pages to Category:Articles with too few wikilinks or one of its dated subcategories.
If a parameter is provided such as {{Underlinked|date=January 2025}} 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:Underlinked}} 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
```
{{Underlinked}}
```
to the top of an article. You may also drop it into the top of a section, but please specify the "|section" option to generate the proper template text.
```
{{Underlinked|section}}
```
If you subst: this template, the current date will be added to the template.
Please do not include Category pages.
Date tagging syntax: {{Underlinked|date=January 2025}} or {{Underlinked|section|date=January 2025}}

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Use this template to tag an article as not having enough wikilinks to other articles. If an article has NO LINKS whatsoever, use {{dead end}} instead.

Template parameters[Edit template data]
Parameter		Description	Type	Status
Area affected	`1`	The part of the article that is affected. For example, if only a section has too few links. Suggested values `section` `subsection` `article` Example section	String	optional
Date	`date`	The month in which the template was added Example February 2024 Auto value `{{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}`	String	optional

{{Dead end}} – for articles with no internal links
{{Orphan}} – for articles that are not linked from other articles, that have few to no incoming links (also see Wikipedia:Orphan § Criteria)
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Linking (MOS:LINK) – 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
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Linking § Overlinking and underlinking – guidance on what generally should and should not be linked

The above documentation is transcluded from Template:Underlinked/doc.
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Add categories to the /doc subpage. Subpages of this template.

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