Help:Plainlinks
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A plainlink is a link external to en.wikipedia.org, but in this case not followed by an
wikilinks
.
Making a plainlink
The arrow icon can be suppressed by:
- Placing the external link syntax between
<span class="plainlinks">...</span>tags. - Using {{Plain link}}.
For example,
<span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia]</span>
{{Plain link|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki|Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia}}
produce Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Some templates such as {{Querylink}} and {{Oldid}} use plainlinks.