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Latest revision as of 09:59, 31 October 2026
This article does not contain any links to other wiki articles. (October 2026) |
| Template documentation follows |
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| Note: the template above may sometimes be partially or fully invisible. |
| Visit "Template:Dead end/doc" to edit its documentation if it is available. (How does this work?) |
 | Any breaking changes to this template, including moving it or nominating it for deletion, must be communicated in advance to Twinkle's users and maintainers at Wikipedia talk:Twinkle. The standard installation of Twinkle relies on this template. |
 | This template is used by the standard installation of AutoWikiBrowser (AWB). If you are planning to make any major changes to this template, move it, or nominate it for deletion, please notify AWB's users and maintainers beforehand at Wikipedia talk:AWB as a courtesy. |
 | Articles tagged with this template may be offered to newcomers as a suggested edit task on their newcomer homepage, inviting them to find references for the article. |
- This template should be added to articles which have no internal links. Articles which have some internal links, but are in need of more, should be tagged with
{{underlinked}}instead. - An optional parameter can be specified to give other Wikipedians an idea of what general topic this article covers so that they may add links relevant to it.
- This template will add pages to Category:Dead-end pages or one of its dated subcategories.
- If a parameter is provided such as
{{Dead end|date=October 2026}}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:Dead end}}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
{{Dead end}}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. - If you subst: this template, the current date will be added to the template.
- Please do not include Category pages.
- Date tagging syntax:
{{Dead end|date=October 2026}}or{{Dead end|section|date=October 2026}}
Finding dead-end articles
Looking for dead-end articles?
- Check Special:Whatlinkshere/Template:Dead end to find articles tagged with this template. (article transclusions only)
- Special:DeadendPages gives the most recent database report.
- Wikipedia:Dead-end pages tells you how to help.
TemplateData
Use this template to tag an article as having NO LINKS whatsoever to other articles. If there are any links, do NOT use this template - use {{more links}} instead.
| Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
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| Area affected | 1 | Use this to replace the word "article". For example, if only a particular section has no links.
| String | optional |
| Date | date | The month in which the template was added.
| String | optional |
See also
{{Underlinked}}– for articles that need more 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