Template:Bare URL AV media

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This template is an inline alternative to {{Cleanup bare URLs}}, for use ONLY with links to multimedia files, i.e. those containing audio and/or video.

These files will have a mime type beginning with audio/ or video/, and will usually have one of the following extensions: .aac, .avi, .mid, .midi, .mp3, .mp4, .mpeg, .oga, .ogv, .opus, .ts, .wav, .weba, .webm, .3gp, .3g2.

Usage

Paste this after a bare-URL reference/link to a multimediafile:

This page is being depreciated

It is best to place the tag inside a citation, just before the closing </ref> tag:

<ref>https://www.aaa.si.edu/assets/audio/podcasts/monuments-men-AAA_andrew-ritchie-1977.mp3 {{bare URL AV media|date=February 2026}}</ref>
- Result: ^[1]

References

↑ https://radiotapes.com/KDHL/KDHL-AM_Ali-Frazer_3-8-1971_1.mp3 ^{[bare URL AV media file]}

This will still categorize the page for cleanup without cluttering the present paragraph with "^{[bare URL AV media]}", and it will also help track down the citation to improve by keeping the cleanup tag in the citation. When doing it this way, the date must be manually entered; it cannot be done with the {{Bare URL AV media|{{subst:DATE}}}} shortcut method, because template substitution does not work inside <ref>...</ref> tags.

Tracking categories

This template places the article into both of the following categories:
- Category:All articles with bare URLs for citations — 0 pages
  
  Category:Articles with bare URLs for citations or a dated subcategory thereof, currently
  - Category:Articles with bare URLs for citations from February 2026 — 0 pages
  Category:Articles with AV media file bare URLs for citations — 0 pages

Purge this page to update pages-in-category counts

Why?

See WP:Bare URLs

How to respond to this tag

See WP:HOWCITE

Template Data

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TemplateData for Bare URL AV media

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Template parameters
Parameter		Description	Type	Status
name	`name`	no description	Unknown	optional
reason	`reason`	no description	Unknown	optional
date	`date`	no description	Unknown	optional