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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{{icon|[[File:Information.svg|25px|alt=Information icon]]}}} Hello! Thank you for your efforts to improve Wikipedia, and in particular for adding references{{<includeonly>safesubst:</includeonly>#if:{{{1|}}}|, as you did to [[{{{1}}}]]}}! However, adding a [[WP:BAREURL|bare URL]] is not ideal, and exposes the reference to [[WP:LINKROT|link rot]]. It is preferable to use proper [[Wikipedia:Citation templates|citation templates]] when [[Wikipedia:Citing sources|citing sources]], including details such as title, author, date, and any other information necessary for a [[bibliographic citation]]. Here's an example of a full citation using the {{tl|cite web}} template to cite a web page:<br />
<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext">Lorem ipsum<ref>{{cite web |title=Download the Scanning Software - Windows and Mac |publisher=Canon Inc |work=Ask a Question |date=2022 |url=https://support.usa.canon.com/kb/index?page=content&id=ART174839 |access-date=2022-04-02}}</ref> dolor sit amet.</syntaxhighlight><br />
which displays ''[[Wikipedia:Inline citation|inline]]'' in the running text of the article as:<br />
{{block indent|Lorem ipsum{{fake ref|1}} dolor sit amet.}}<br />
and displays under '''References''' as:<br />
#^ [https://support.usa.canon.com/kb/index?page=content&id=ART174839 Download the Scanning Software - Windows and Mac]". ''Ask a Question''. Canon Inc. 2022. Retrieved 2022-04-02.<br />
If you've already added one or more bare URLs to an article, there are tools available to expand them into full citations: try the [https://citer.toolforge.org/ Citer tool], or in the [[Wikipedia:Source editor|wikitext editor]], try the [[WP:REFILL|reFill tool]], and in the [[WP:Visual Editor|Visual Editor]], the [[Help:Visual Editor#Adding a new reference|reference dialog]] can convert some bare urls into a full citation.<br />
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