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These pages are part of the Administration of the Trainz Wikibook project.
This category lists pages of Trainz needing maintenance fix ups of a stubbed in but missing url. Trainz, as a software suite has been around a long time now, and the occasional 3rd-party reference sometimes have changed.
- Pages are automatically added to this category when the Template:TrainzLinkNeeded is used to note the presence of such an 'unfixed link' (orphaned, moved, different isp, etc.) when using the Plain link template and testing the link fails to find a valid url. Use of the Template: TrainzLinkNeeded let's the editor stay focused on prose, and deffer finding an alternative link, if one exists at all anymore.
- Old url references requiring fixes can be preserved by prefixing the bad url with '|3=' as documented in the template. This can aid in finding a lost page referenced if the task is deferred.
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- Template: TrainzLinkNeeded is just a version of {{Plain link}} which substitutes for a bad or missing url the message providing Template:Trainz_Link_Needed as a full url as a default.
- Given a proper first argument of type url as the first argument ({{{1}}}), the template will operate precisely as {{plain link|{{{1}}}|{{{2}}}}} call does and continue to try linking a bad url whilst correctly categorize the page as needing link maintenance.
Optionally, given a broken link:
- Argument {{{1}}} of the TrainzLinkNeeded template can be a Null argument:
{{TrainzLinkNeeded || Intended Link Title}}
- (note: the BOLD double ' || ' pipes argument separators).
The page-fix needed is simply replacing a token url with a proper url link as the first argument of Template:Plain link.
- Page fixes, then involve hunting down the proper url edited in as argument {{{1}}}, and replacing {{TrainzLinkNeeded}} with {{plain link}} in the calling line.
- When fixed (by an valid and tested 'plain link' reference) then the page will no longer need to include this category, which should normally be empty.
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