Help talk:Magic

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To do:
 * more about category tags
 * more about the COLON CHARACTER
 * decide whether this overlap is helpful, or just merge all this stuff into the other help pages

I made this page, because I can't remember it all, and I certainly can't find it in a hurry. Uncle Ed July 7, 2005 14:37 (UTC)

Is there any way to stop this page from being listed in the categories related to the example templates that are shown? JulesH 9 July 2005 09:45 (UTC)


 * Yes, Jules. I used the subst: prefix inside the curly braces to turn each template code into its, er, "expansion". Then I deleted the category tag from the expanded version. Looking at the history won't really show you how I did this. I better create a help page which explains the use of "subst:". Uncle Ed July 9, 2005 15:44 (UTC)

Suffix Trick
As far as I can tell, the suffix trick does not work with apostrophes. Is there a way around this? (Example: test's) Nationalparks 14:18, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Perhaps an admin could help you in this. -- S iva1979 Talk to me  18:51, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
 * This is intentional behavior. See 14655 for more details. -- 71.223.123.84 (talk) 02:18, 28 November 2012 (UTC)

Is there a way to use a suffix trick on word which change letters at the end? i.e. Category/Categories? TIA Omegarad (talk) 00:09, 19 December 2008 (UTC)

Trick to bring users to the same page though they enter different word combinations, sysonyms that are logic to them
Can you take up this trick pls? I ran into this problem because I want to redirect users looking with the words "chatbots" or "virtual assistants" to the same page. I think it has to do with the piping character, but I can't put my hand on it exactly. Thx and happy wikkying. (what the hell, can't find the sign button anymore) SvenAERTS (talk) 11:14, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

Improved "pipe trick" behaviour
For a number of suggestions how to further improve the "pipe trick" behaviour see:

m:2016_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Categories/Editing

--Matthiaspaul (talk) 23:04, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

Template examples
All of these are hidden on mobile, so a mobile user reading this will get quite confused. Better examples are needed. Hairy Dude (talk) 14:20, 25 August 2018 (UTC)