Template:Dead link/doc

Usage
Editors occasionally encounter dead links either within a paragraph or a reference citation.

Before considering whether to use the dead link template it is often useful to make a search for an archive copy of the dead link and thereby avoid using the tag altogether. All cite templates have the facility for adding archivedate and archiveurl parameters for linking to an archive copy. Non-cite citations can use webarchive.

Using Dead link will place a note by the URL and add the article to one of the Category:Articles with dead external links categories.

Append this template directly after the link (after the link code's terminating  if you are using wikitext), or, if you are using a cite template, directly after the cite transclusion (not inside it), but inside the reference, if any, i.e. before the , in all cases leaving the original link intact: