Wikipedia:Tip of the day/July 18, 2008

Short link pipe trick

Many article titles are disambiguated with parenthetic qualifiers, like this:  Self (psychology) . But when you want to include such a link in the body of an article, this would look rather awkward. So all you have to do is use the "pipe trick", like this:  Self (psychology) . Notice the "|" character stuck in there at the end of the link? That makes the link look like this: Self, without having to type the name of the link after the pipe!

This trick also works with namespaces, so that  Tip of the day  (again notice the pipe character) displays like this: Tip of the day.

Read more: Wikipedia:Links and URLs

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