Editing Incubator escapee wiki:External links (section)

== Restrictions on linking ==
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{{see also|Wikipedia:Copyrights#Linking to copyrighted works}}

For [[WP:LOP|policy]] or technical reasons, editors are restricted from linking to the following, '''without exception''':

# Policy: material that violates the copyrights of others per [[Wikipedia:Copyrights#Linking to copyrighted works|contributors' rights and obligations]] should not be linked, whether in an external-links section or in a citation.{{efn|name=copyvio exception}} External links to websites that display copyrighted works are acceptable as long as the website is manifestly run, maintained or owned by the copyright owner; the owner has licensed the content in a way that allows the website to use it; or the website uses the work in a way compliant with [[fair use]]. Knowingly directing others to material that violates copyright might be considered [[contributory copyright infringement]].{{efn|"In December 1999, for example, a U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City, Utah, granted a preliminary injunction against a religious organization that maintained a website that established links to other sites containing material that infringed on the plaintiff's copyright. The court ruled that the links constituted "contributory infringement" and ordered them removed.<ref>{{cite web|title=Hypertext Linking and Copyright Issues|publisher=[[American Library Association]] (ALA)|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150526174259/http://www.ala.org/advocacy/copyright/copyrightarticle/hypertextlinking|url=http://www.ala.org/advocacy/copyright/copyrightarticle/hypertextlinking|archive-date=May 26, 2015}}</ref> However, this remains a developing area of case law.}} If there is reason to believe that a website has a copy of a work in violation of its copyright, do not link to it. Linking to a page that illegally distributes someone else's work casts a bad light on Wikipedia and its editors. ''This is particularly relevant when linking to sites such as [[Scribd]], [[WikiLeaks]], or [[YouTube]], where due care should be taken to avoid linking to material that violates copyright.''
# Technical: sites that match the [[MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist|Wikipedia-specific]] or [[M:Spam blacklist|multi-site]] blacklist without being [[MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist|whitelisted]]. Edits containing such links are automatically blocked from being saved.