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This only applies to ELs, not to citations. While it is, of course, better to let a citation point to a free-access online resource rather than a paywalled one if both (legally) point to the same document, Wikipedia depends on reliable refs, not on free or online refs. So, the access-status is irrelevant in regard to citation links. Let's not introduce restrictions into template documentation through the backdoor. Also, template documentation is not a guideline, such terms are better avoided.
This {{#ifeq: {{FULLPAGENAME}} | Wikipedia:External links |guideline|guidance}} does not restrict linking to websites that are being used as [[Wikipedia:Citing sources|sources]] to provide content in articles.<noinclude>
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:Text of the caveat, which applies to guidance preferring free content as target for external links above web resources with a more restricted access (including subscription, registration, or otherwise limited access).
:This caveat is used multiple times in the [[WP:EL]] guidance.
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;Documentation
:Text of the caveat, which applies to guidance preferring free content as target for external links above web resources with a more restricted access (including subscription, registration, or otherwise limited access).
:This caveat is used multiple times in the [[WP:EL]] guidance.
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