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This template can be used to create a formatted external link. It formats the appearance of '''''displayed''''' URLs, while making them ''machine-readable'' as part of emitted [[Wikipedia:microformat|microformat]] meta-data, inside templates such as infoboxes.
If you wish to display text instead of the URL (e.g. "[http://example.com website]" instead of {{URL|example.com}}), please '''do not use this template'''. Instead, consider using normal [[Wikipedia:Help:Link#External_links|wiki markup]] or [[Template:Official website]]. Displaying text instead of the url will render the microformat data invalid.
For web-based references, please see [[Wikipedia:Citation templates|Citation templates]].
== Usage ==