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The reason is that those links will ''never'' contain free versions of articles, they will link to either the PubMed database, which only contain abstracts (free versions would be hosted at [[PubMed Central]] instead), or the OCLC database, which formerly held google book previews (then deemed useful), but no longer does.
This means that these urls make it look like a free version is accessible, when really none are, making readers click through links that lead them to nowhere useful. Note that this isn't a proposal to removal any URL covered by an identifier (e.g. {{para|url|https://www.jstor.org/stable/123456}} → {{para|jstor|123456}}) that ''may or may not
 <span style="font-variant:small-caps; whitespace:nowrap;">[[User:Headbomb|Headbomb]] {[[User talk:Headbomb|t]] · [[Special:Contributions/Headbomb|c]] · [[WP:PHYS|p]] · [[WP:WBOOKS|b]]}</span> 09:25, 17 February 2025 (UTC)}}
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