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This template will allow you to create a local or [[Wikipedia:Help:Interwiki linking|interwiki link]] (such as a link to the [[Wikipedia:Help:Page history|history of a page]]) on a page without having the [[File:External.svg|10px]] follow the link. This can be used, for example, when internal or interwiki links appear as external links. See [[Wikipedia:Help:URL#URLs on other Wikimedia projects]] for more information.

== Caution ==

When you link to a Wikipedia or other Wikimedia project URL, ''omit the preceding "http:", or "https:"'', so that the URL begins with "//". This allows users to use the protocol they're currently using.

You can use {{tnull|fullurl}} [[Help:Magic words|magicword]] to generate URLs to Wikipedia pages.

Also this template is not suitable for external links, since it suppresses displaying the exeternal link small icon ([[File:Insertlink.gif|12px]]); for external links, use {{tl|URL}}

== Examples ==

*<code><nowiki>{{Plain link|url=//www.wikipedia.org}}</nowiki></code> gives {{Plain link|url=//www.wikipedia.org}}
*<code><nowiki>{{Plain link|//www.wikipedia.org Wikipedia}}</nowiki></code> gives {{Plain link|//www.wikipedia.org Wikipedia}}
*<code><nowiki>{{Plain link|//www.wikipedia.org | Wikipedia}}</nowiki></code> gives {{Plain link|//www.wikipedia.org|Wikipedia}}
*<code><nowiki>{{Plain link|http://www.google.co.uk|Google}}</nowiki></code> gives {{Plain link|http://www.google.co.uk|Google}}

Note that if your url or link title contains an equals sign <code>=</code> you must use named parameters:
*<code><nowiki>{{Plain link|url=//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Equals_sign&oldid=282228764|name="=" }}</nowiki></code> gives {{Plain link|url=//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Equals_sign&oldid=282228764|name="="}}

== Redirects ==

To be more concise, you can use <code><nowiki>{{scp}}</nowiki></code> or <code><nowiki>{{plnk}}</nowiki></code> and numbers as parameter names, e.g.:
*<code><nowiki>{{scp|1=//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Equals_sign&oldid=282228764|2="="}}</nowiki></code> gives the same {{scp|1=//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Equals_sign&oldid=282228764|2="="}}
*<code><nowiki>{{plnk|1=//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Equals_sign&oldid=282228764|2="="}}</nowiki></code> gives the same {{plnk|1=//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Equals_sign&oldid=282228764|2="="}}

== TemplateData ==
{{TemplateData header}}
<templatedata>
{
"description": "Use this template to add a local or interwiki link that would otherwise show a box and arrow icon next to the link without the icon.",
"format": "inline",
"params": {
"url": {
"aliases": ["URL","1"],
"label": "URL",
"description": "URL of the link. For Wikimedia links, use the format \"//example.com\". This allows users to use the protocol they're currently using.",
"type": "url"
},
"name": {
"aliases": ["NAME","1"],
"label": "Text",
"description": "Text to be linked",
"type": "string"
}
},
"paramOrder": [
"url",
"name"
]
}
</templatedata>

== See also ==
* [[Template:Diff]]
* [[Template:Oldid]]
* [[Template:URL]]
* For more detail see wikipedia page [[wikipedia:Template:Plain_link]]

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