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The {{subscription}} template can be used to flag an external link that requires a paid subscription.

Use the {{subscription}} template when:

You create or find a link to an outside website

in a reference citation

OR

in a paragraph within the body of an article

OR

in the "Outside links" section of an article

AND

a reader must pay to subscribe to the website to gain access to the linked page.

Usage

Using {{subscription}} will place a note by the link.

Append the {{subscription}} template directly after the link or citation template, leaving the original link intact. If the {{subscription}} template is not placed directly after the link or citation template, the template will not be correctly detected by automated tools.

If the outside link is part of a reference citation, the {{subscription}} template should be placed directly after the link or citation template but before the </ref> tag. Placing {{subscription}} directly after the link or citation template but before the </ref> tag will cause the subscription required message to appear in the footnote reference area of the article rather than in the body of the text. Placing the message in the body of the text is not recommended in this situation.

Common form

{{subscription}}

Optional parameters

{{subscription}}

where via is the publication or website used.

In order to get the result as a sentence, write {{subscription|s}}. This generates :

(Subscription required.)

Examples

• <ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.example.org |title=Webpage title |accessdate=22 September 2012}} {{subscription|s}}</ref>
  →
• <ref>{{cite news |first=Marie |last=Woolf |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article3736239.ece |title=Pirates can claim UK asylum |newspaper= The Sunday Times|date=13 April 2008|accessdate=22 April 2009 | location=London}}{{subscription|s}}</ref>
  →
• Using via: <ref>{{Cite book |title=Profit Theory and Capitalism |author=Obrinsky, Mark |location=Philadelphia |publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press {{Subscription|via=Questia}} |url=http://www.questia.com/read/4995070/profit-theory-and-capitalism |year=1983 |page=1 |isbn=978-0812278637}}</ref>
  →

==Outside links==
* [http://www.example.org/webpage.html Example web page title] {{subscription}}

Outside links

• Example web page title (subscription required)

See also

• {{Registration}} to flag an outside link that requires free registration.
• |subscription= in {{cite news}} and {{cite web}}