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{{Category see also|Attribution templates|Citation templates}}

This category includes templates that create links to external resources. Generally, templates should only be made for links to sites that meet one or more of these three criteria:
# The site is a commonly linked [[primary source]] (e.g. [[UK Intellectual Property Office]]).
# The site is a [[Wikipedia:Reliable sources|high-quality reliable source]] that covers the subject in [[WP:ELNO#EL1|greater detail than Wikipedia]] can or should.
# The site is a [[Wikimedia Foundation|Wikimedia]] sisterproject (e.g. [[Wiktionary]]).  These should be categorized in [[:Category:Interwiki link templates]].

COPTR.digipres prohibits the linking of [[WP:ELNEVER|copyright violations, malware and spam]] regardless of whether the link is typed directly or placed with a template.  All links and link templates should be used only in ways that comply with the [[Wiki:External links]] and [[Wikipedia:Citing sources]] guidelines.

{{See also|Wikipedia:List of templates linking to other free content projects}}

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