Editing Incubator escapee wiki:External links (section)

== Important points to remember ==
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# This guideline {{strong|does not apply}} to [[Wikipedia:Inline citation|inline citations]] or [[WP:GENREF|general references]], which should appear in the "References" or "Notes" section (''see also: [[WP:CS:EMBED]]''). {{em|This specifically includes}} e-commerce and other commercial-sales links, which are prohibited in External links but allowed in footnoted citations.{{efn|name=copyvio exception|Although as stated this page in general does not apply to article citations, the restriction on linking to copyright violations is an exception, applying to all links, including those in citations.}}
# {{shortcut|WP:NOELBODY|WP:ELBODY}}With rare exceptions, external links should not be used in the [[MOS:BODY|body]] of an article.{{efn|Links to [[Wiktionary]] and [[Wikisource]] can sometimes be useful. Other exceptions include use of templates like {{tl|external media}}, which is used only when non-free and non-fair use media cannot be uploaded to Wikipedia.  Templates that link to reliable sources (such as – but not limited to – {{tl|ISBN}}, {{tl|doi}}, {{tl|PMID}}, and {{tl|Ref RFC}}) do not normally appear outside of a references list.}} Instead, include appropriate external links in an "External links" section at the end of the article, and in the appropriate location within an [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Infoboxes|infobox]], if applicable.
# Links in the "External links" section should be kept to a minimum. A lack of external links or a small number of external links is {{em|not}} a reason to add external links.
# {{shortcut|WP:NOTPORTAL}}In the "External links" section, try to avoid separate links to multiple pages in the same website, as if to provide a portal to that website; instead, try to find an appropriate linking page within the site.
# This guideline does not apply to [[Help:Interlanguage links|links to non-English Wikipedia articles]]:
#* those that appear in the sidebar by default, which are either sourced from [[Wikidata]] or added manually to the page's wikitext after the External links section, or
#* those generated by the {{tl|interlanguage link}} template for articles that are absent from English Wikipedia.