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This template removes links from wikitext. It de-links wikilinks and URL links, removes HTML comments, and normalises whitespace. It handles most wikitext correctly, including category links, the colon trick, the pipe trick (normal and reverse), nested wikilinks, and invalid link characters.
Usage
- Basic
{{delink|text}}
- All parameters
{{delink
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| wikilinks = no
| urls = no
| comments = no
| whitespace = no
| refs = yes
}}
Parameters
1 - the text to be de-linked.wikilinks
- - if set to "no", "n", "false", or "0", wikilinks are not de-linked.
- - if set to "target", wikilinks are reduced to the target portion of a wikilink (
[[<target>|<label>]] → <target>)
urls - if set to "no", "n", "false", or "0", URL links are not de-linked.comments - if set to "no", "n", "false", or "0", HTML comments are not removed.whitespace - if set to "no", "n", "false", or "0", whitespace is not normalised. The normalisation makes the whitespace of the resulting text look as if it had been put through the MediaWiki parser. For example, single newlines are converted to a single space, but double newlines are left alone.refs - (experimental) if set to "yes", "y", "true", or "1", removes references. This is not recommended, as only the [1], [2], etc. markers will be removed - the references themselves will still appear at the end of the page. There is no known workaround for this problem as of April 2014.
Examples
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Output
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{{delink|[[Foo]]}}
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Foo
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{{delink|[[Foo|Bar]]}}
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Bar
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{{delink|[[Foo|Bar]]|wikilinks=target}}
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Foo
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{{delink|[[Foo]], [[bar]], and [[baz]].}}
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Foo, bar, and baz.
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{{delink|I visited [https://www.example.com example.com].}}
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I visited example.com.
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{{delink|Foo}}
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Foo
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Non-examples
See also
String-handling templates (help page) |
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Substring (select chunk of string by its position) |
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{{#invoke:string|sub}}
{{str sub new}} | Select a substring based on starting and ending index counted in either direction. | | {{str left}} | Keep the first N characters of a string, or duplicate it to N characters. | | {{str crop}} | Return all but the last N characters of a string. | | {{str index}} | Return the N-th character of a string. |
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Trimming (select/remove chunk of string by character type) |
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Select/remove specific item from string |
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| | | {{ship prefix}} | Returns the length of a ship's name prefix, if listed (ship names). | | {{title year}} | Returns the 3-or-4-digit year from a pagename, if any. | | {{title decade}} | Returns the 4-digit decade (e.g. "1740s") from a pagename, if any. | | {{title number}} | Returns any number from a pagename. |
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Insertion, replacement and length |
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| {{loop}} | Repeat character string a specified number of times. | | {{replace}} | Returns the string, after replacing all occurrences of a specified string with another string. | | {{str rep}} | Returns the string, after replacing the first occurrence of a specified string with another string. | | {{digits}} | Returns the string, after removing all characters that are not digits 0–9 | | {{Plain text}}, {{Nowiki}} | Strips wikicode from a string. |
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| {{str len}} | Returns a string's length. | | {{str ≥ len}} | Check if a string is "longer or equally long" or "shorter" than a given length. | | {{str ≤ len}} | Check if a string is "shorter or equally long" or "longer" than a given length. | | {{str ≠ len}} | Check if a string is "not equal" or "equal" to a given length. |
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Analysis and searching |
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{{#invoke:string2|startswith}}
{{str endswith}} | Check if a string starts or ends with a given string. | | {{str find}}, {{strfind short}} | Returns the numerical location of a given string in a string. | | {{in string}} | Returns optional string when given string is not found | | {{str count}} | Count the number of occurrences of a pattern within a string. |
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| {{a or an}} | Takes a noun and produces the appropriate indefinite article, based on whether the first letter is a vowel. | | {{Isnumeric}} | Returns number when true, blank when not numeric. | | {{str letter}} | Returns the number of letters that begin a string. | | {{str number}} | Returns the number of numbers that begin a string. |
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