Template:Subscription or advertising

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The {{Subscription or advertising}} template can be used to flag an external link that requires a paid subscription or acceptance of advertising (and perhaps trackers).

Use the {{Subscription or advertising}} template when:

You create or find a link to an external website

in a reference citation

OR

in a paragraph within the body of an article

OR

in the "External links" section of an article

AND

a reader must pay to subscribe to the website, or unblock advertising (and/or tracking) to gain access to the linked page.

Usage

Using {{Subscription or advertising}} will place a note by the link.

Append the {{Subscription or advertising}} template directly after the link or citation template, leaving the original link intact. If the {{Subscription or advertising}} template is not placed directly after the link or citation template, the template will not be correctly detected by automated tools.

If the external link is part of a reference citation, the {{Subscription or advertising}} template should be placed directly after the link or citation template but before the </ref> tag. Placing {{Subscription or advertising}} directly after the link or citation template but before the </ref> tag will cause the subscription required message to appear in the footnote reference area of the article rather than in the body of the text. Placing the message in the body of the text is not recommended in this situation.

Common form

{{Subscription or advertising}}

Optional parameters

{{Subscription or advertising|via=}}

where via is the publication or website used.

In order to get the result as a sentence, write {{Subscription or advertising|s}}. This generates :

(Subscription or unblocked advertising required.)

Redirects

Categorization

Using this template in its common form will add pages to Category:Pages containing links to subscription-only content; when the |via= parameter is added, pages will also be placed into Category:Subscription required using via.

Examples

• <ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.example.org |title=Webpage title |accessdate=22 September 2012}} {{Subscription or advertising|s}}</ref>
  →
• <ref>{{Cite news |first=Marie |last=Woolf |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article3736239.ece |title=Pirates can claim UK asylum |newspaper= [[The Sunday Times]]|date= April 13, 2008|accessdate=April 22, 2009 | location=London}}{{Subscription or advertising|s}}</ref>
  →
• Using via: <ref>{{Cite book |title=Profit Theory and Capitalism |author=Obrinsky, Mark |location=Philadelphia |publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press |url=https://www.questia.com/read/4995070/profit-theory-and-capitalism |year=1983 |page=1 |isbn=978-0812278637}} {{Subscription or advertising |via=[[Questia]]}}</ref>
  →

== External links ==
* [http://www.example.org/webpage.html Example web page title] {{Subscription or advertising}}

External links

• Example web page title

(subscription or unblocked advertising required)

See also

• {{Registration required}} to flag an external link that requires free registration.
• |subscription= in {{cite news}} and {{cite web}}
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Open Access/Signalling OA-ness and {{Open access}}

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