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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
| 1          =
| 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.
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

Code	Output
`{{delink\|[[Foo]]}}`	Foo
`{{delink\|[[Foo\|Bar]]}}`	Bar
`{{delink\|[[Foo]], [[bar]], and [[baz]].}}`	Foo, bar, and baz.
`{{delink\|I visited [https://www.example.com example.com].}}`	I visited example.com.
`{{delink\|Foo}}`	Foo

Non-examples

Code	Output
`{{delink\|https://www.example.com}}`	https://www.example.com

{{str mid}}	To return a substring specified by position and length.
{{trunc}}	To trim down to a specified number of characters.
{{str left}}	To trim down to a specified number of characters or duplicate the string to a specified number.
{{str crop}}	To crop a specified number of characters off the end.
{{chop head and tail}}	To crop a specified number of characters off the beginning and end.

{{str right}}	To trim the first specified number of characters.
{{str rightc}}	To return a number of characters from the end, returns a parameter if the string is empty.
{{str rightmost}}	To trim down to the last specified number of characters.
{{str sub old}}	To trim down to a specified number, starting at a given number from the left.
{{str sub new}}	Select a substr based on starting and ending index.
{{str index}}	Returns a given character from a string, but not accented letters.

By checking

{{trim}}	To trim any leading or trailing whitespace
{{str letter/trim}}	To trim down to the beginning letters.
{{str number/trim}}	To trim down to the beginning numbers.
{{trim brackets}}	To trim any leading or trailing square brackets.
{{trim quotes}}	To trim leading or trailing matching quotes.

{{first word}}	To trim down to the first space.
{{remove first word}}	To remove anything before the first space.
{{last word}}	To trim down from the last space.
{{remove last word}}	To remove anything after the last space.

Dedicated

{{delink}}	Removes wikilink brackets (wikicode).
{{remove file prefix}}	Removes "File:" (or "Image:") from filenames.
{{PAGENAMEBASE}}	To trim off any parenthesis text at the end of a string (disambiguation).
{{title disambig text}}	Returns text in parentheses at the end of a string (disambiguation).

{{WikiProjectbasename}}	Removes "WikiProject" from a pagename.
{{remove unranked}}	Removes the string "unranked_" from the left of a string (taxonomy).
{{ship prefix}}	Returns the length of a ship's name prefix, if listed (ship names).
{{title year}}	Returns the 4-digit year from a pagename, if any.
{{title decade}}	Returns the 4-digit decade (e.g. "1740s") from a pagename, if any.

Insertion, replacement and length

{{strloc insert}}	Inserts a string at character location strloc, or appends if strloc<=0.
{{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

{{str len}}	Returns a string's length.
{{str ≥ len}}	To check if a string is "longer or equally long" or "shorter" than a given length.
{{str ≤ len}}	To check if a string is "shorter or equally long" or "longer" than a given length.
{{str ≠ len}}	To check if a string is "not equal" or "equal" to a given length.
{{str ≤ ≥ len}}	To check if a string is "shorter", "equal", or "longer" than a given length.

Analysis and technical

{{str endswith}}	To check if a string ends with a given string.
{{str find}} {{strfind short}}	Returns the numerical location of a given string in a string.
{{str find0}}	Zero-based substring search.
{{str sub find}}	Searches a substring in a string at the given offset.
{{str letter}}	Returns the number of letters that begin a string.
{{str number}}	Returns the number of numbers that begin a string.
{{str gtr str}}	Compares two strings for alphabetical order, and returns a value accordingly.

{{ASCII code}}	Returns the ASCII value of a single character.
{{a or an}}	Takes a noun and produces the appropriate indefinite article, based on whether the first letter is a vowel.

{{Count on page}}	Counts how many times a string is used on a page
{{String on page}}	Finds if yes/no a string is used on a page

Module:String
...Magic words	About `{{padleft:\|}}`.
...ParserFunctions	About `{{#titleparts:\|}}, {{#expr:\|}}, {{#ifeq:\|}},` etc.

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