Template:Elx/doc

, short for external link x, provides a template for a very general external link, designed for use in the section of the same name. It can be used in two different ways.

If it's a simple link to a subject's official website, please use instead.

For inter-wiki links, that is, links to any other wiki, please use .

Method 1
The first method is completely free-form. You can type in just about anything, and the template will both bullet it and make sure that external links do not display a symbol to the top right, like this.

Method 2
The second is a more automated template for links to sites outside of the scope of MediaWiki. defines the url of the page to which you want to link;, which defaults at  — or whatever the page the template's on is called — is for the title of that page; and, optionally,   and   do the same for but for the website.

Doctor Who website
If you set  to " ", it will produce:

The specification of  is not generally necessary for the Doctor Who website, as it defaults to the current website. This feature is also available for,   and.

If linking to an episode page, on the most current Doctor Who website, should be used instead. Instructions here.