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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.
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}}
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.
