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There is a consensus that in mainspace, interwiki links to Wikinews should only be made as per the external links guideline. This generally rules out the use of this template in the middle of articles. The relevant discussion can be found at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Archive 152#Restrict Wikinews links in articles.

This template is used on many pages and changes may be widely noticed. Test changes in the template's /sandbox or /testcases subpages, or in your own user subpage. Consider discussing changes on the talk page before implementing them.

Usage[edit]

As supported by Wikipedia:Wikimedia sister projects, this template may be used to add a Wikinews link to a Wikipedia article. Note that this template generates an InterWikimedia link and is not intended to represent sources for Wikipedia articles.

Links to pages on the Wikinews site:

Box format
- ((Wikinews|SomeArticleTitle)): Creates box with link to article SomeArticleTitle.
- ((Wikinews category|SomeCategoryTitle)): Creates box with link to category SomeCategoryTitle.
Line format
- ((Wikinews-inline|SomeArticleTitle)): Creates a line with link to article SomeArticleTitle.
To link in-line with other text, create an interwiki link in the format: | SomeArticleTitle.

Template	What it makes	Where it goes
((Wikinews)) Edit Talk Links	Wikinews has related news: insert article name here	`((Wikinews\|insert article name here))` Placed next to the discussion of the event. Uses parameter (i.e. insert article name here) for a manual link. To make it appear on the left, use the parameter `position=left`.
	Wikinews has related news: Insert page name 1 here Insert page name 2 here Insert page name 3 here Insert page name 4 here Insert page name 5 here	`((Wikinews\|Insert page name 1 here\|Insert page name 2 here\|Insert page name 3 here\|Insert page name 4 here\|Insert page name 5 here))` Placed next to the discussion of the event.
	Wikinews has insert description here: Insert page name 1 here	`((Wikinews\|has=insert description here\|Insert page name 1 here ))` Placed next to the discussion of the event. Allows for a custom "Wikinews has..." message.
((Wikinews category)) Edit Talk Links	Wikinews has news related to: Insert category name here	`((Wikinews category\|Insert category name here))` Placed next to the discussion of the event.
((Wikinews-inline)) Edit Talk Links	insert article name here at Wikinews	`((Wikinews-inline\|insert article name here))` Produces a bulleted list item on a line by itself. Uses parameter (i.e. insert article name here) for a manual link.

Location[edit]

N Do not place this template in the main body of the article.

N Do not place this template in a section containing columns.

This template is normally placed at the top of the WP:External links section. Please do not create an otherwise-empty ==External links== section for this template. Instead, consider using ((Wikinews-inline)), or placing this template at the top of the last section on the page (usually a citation-related section). See Wikipedia:Wikimedia sister projects for further recommendations about the best choice of template for various situations.

On disambiguation pages, this template should be listed above other text, but below any cleanup templates, images, infoboxes or navboxes.

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