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;Purpose of {{Lts|{{BASEPAGENAME}}}}
* Create a 'Pretty-Print' external url link inside text.

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

== Caution ==
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When you link to a Wikipedia or other Wikimedia project URL, ''omit the preceeding "http:", or "https:"'', so that the URL begins with "//". This allows users to use the protocol they're using currently.
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You can use  {{Plain link|MW|magicword}} to generate URLs to Wikipedia pages.

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