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=== Usage ===
<code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>{{ROOTPAGENAME}}|account|example.com}}</code> → {{{{ROOTPAGENAME}}|account|example.com}}

<code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>{{ROOTPAGENAME}}}}</code> {{#ifeq:{{ROOTPAGENAME}}|No spam|(or <code><nowiki>{{@}}</nowiki></code>)}} → {{{{ROOTPAGENAME}}|}}

This template is designed to help prevent spam from being sent to an e-mail address inserted onto a Wikipedia page. Because nearly all spam is automated,<ref name="Pearce2006">{{cite book|author=Robyn Pearce|title=About Time for Teaching: 120 Time-Saving Tips for Teachers and Those Who Support Them|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hgtaw61drMsC&pg=PA137&dq=%22all+spam+is+automated%22|date=January 2006|publisher=Robyn Pearce|isbn=978-0-7900-1044-1|page=137}}</ref> altering the format of the e-mail address to where it does not match the [[regular expression]](s) in the e-mail address search engine helps prevent spam. This template works by displaying an ''image'' of the '@' symbol. If an email address input is provided, the template will display the email address and with an image of the '@' symbol inserted (instead of the symbol's actual text). This prevents automated search engines and crawlers that use the '@' symbol in their search algorithms and regex code from identifying email addresses published on Wikipedia, hence preventing the email address from being retrieved and added to any spam recipient lists.

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=== See also ===
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=== See also ===
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