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:<code><nowiki>{{w|London (band)|London}}</nowiki></code> renders {{w|London (band)|London}}
:<code><nowiki>{{w|London (band)|London}}</nowiki></code> renders {{w|London (band)|London}}
==Note for editors from other wikis==
Other wikis use something similar to this template.  [[memoryalpha:Memory Alpha|Memory Alpha]], for instance uses a template with exactly the same name.  However, our {{tl|w}} is a bit different to [[memoryalpha:template:w]], in that it defaults to the name of the page if you don't add your own variable name.  In essence, Memory Alpha use {{tl|w}} to do not only what this one does, but also what {{tl|wikipediainfo}} does. The default value of the second variable in this template is the value of first template.  That's why :<code><nowiki>{{w|London}}</nowiki></code> renders {{w|London}}, because it's actually delivering the following code: <code><nowiki>[[wikipedia:London|London]]</nowiki></code>  In other iterations of this template around Wikia, it might instead be delivering ''this'' code: :<code><nowiki>[[wikipedia:London|{{PAGENAME}}]]</code>, which is sometimes a very different thing.
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