Editing Help:Editing (section)

=== Links ===

{{Main|Help:Link}}

You will often want to make clickable ''links'' to other pages.

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Here's a link to a page named [[Troll]].
You can even say [[troll]]s
and the link will show up correctly.
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Here's a link to a page named [[Troll]].
You can even say [[troll]]s
and the link will show up correctly.
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You can put formatting around a link.
Example: ''[[Space Marines]]''.
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You can put formatting around a link.
Example: ''[[Space Marines]]''.
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The ''first letter'' of articles is automatically
capitalized, so [[space Marines]] goes to the same place
as [[Space Marines]]. Capitalization matters after the
first letter.
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The ''first letter'' of articles is automatically
capitalized, so [[space Marines]] goes to the same place
as [[Space Marines]]. Capitalization matters after the
first letter.
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[[Intentionally permanent red link]] is a page that doesn't exist
yet. You could create it by clicking on the link.
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[[Intentionally permanent red link]] is a page that doesn't exist
yet. You could create it by clicking on the link.
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You can link to a page section by its title:

* [[Twilight#Quotes]].

If multiple sections have the same title, add
a number. [[#Example section 3]] goes to the
third section named "Example section".
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You can link to a page section by its title:

* [[Twilight#Quotes]].


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You can make a link point to a different place
with a [[Help:Piped link|piped link]]. Put the link
target first, then the pipe character "|", then
the link text.

* [[Help:Link|About Links]]
* [[Twilight#Quotes|Twilight quotes]]

Or you can use the "pipe trick" so that a title that
contains disambiguation text will appear with more concise
link text.

* [[Rogue Trader (Sourcebook)|Rogue Trader]]

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You can make a link point to a different place
with a [[Help:Piped link|piped link]]. Put the link
target first, then the pipe character "|", then
the link text.

* [[Help:Link|About Links]]
* [[Twilight#Quotes|Twilight quotes]]

Or you can use the "pipe trick" so that a title that
contains disambiguation text will appear with more concise
link text.

* [[Rogue Trader (Sourcebook)|]]
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You can make an external link just by typing a URL:
http://www.nupedia.com

You can give it a title:
[http://www.nupedia.com Nupedia]

Or leave the title blank:
[http://www.nupedia.com]

External link can be used to link to a wiki page that cannot be linked to with <nowiki>[[page]]</nowiki>:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fotonotes&oldid=482030#Installation
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You can make an external link just by typing a URL:
http://www.nupedia.com

You can give it a title:
[http://www.nupedia.com Nupedia]

Or leave the title blank:
[http://www.nupedia.com]

External link can be used to link to a wiki page that
cannot be linked to with <nowiki>[[page]]</nowiki>:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fotonotes
&oldid=482030#Installation
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Linking to an e-mail address works the same way:
mailto:someone@example.com or [mailto:someone@example.com someone]
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Linking to an e-mail address works the same way:
mailto:someone@example.com or [mailto:someone@example.com someone]
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You can [[Help:Redirect|redirect]] the user to another page.
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#REDIRECT [[Official position]]
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[[Help:Category|Category links]] do not show up in line
but instead at page bottom ''and cause the page to be
listed in the category.''
[[Category:English documentation]]

Add an extra colon to ''link'' to a category in line
without causing the page to be listed in the category:
[[:Category:Space Marines]]

You can use pipes in Category links as well. The text after
the pipe is the title that will be displayed in the Category
page.  This is useful if the page title starts with "The"
or a Campaign namespace prefix, for example.

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[[Help:Category|Category links]] do not show up in line
but instead at page bottom ''and cause the page to be
listed in the category.''
[[Category:English documentation]]

Add an extra colon to ''link'' to a category in line
without causing the page to be listed in the category:
[[:Category:Space Marines]]

You can use pipes in Category links as well. The text after
the pipe is the title that will be displayed in the Category
page.  This is useful if the page title starts with "The"
or a Campaign namespace prefix, for example.

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