Wikipedia:Tip of the day/March 19

Create links faster using tricks

1. Magic pipe trick: Synonymous article titles may be clarified with terms in parentheses, 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 "magic pipe trick", like this:  Self (psychology) . Notice the pipe ("|") 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  (again notice the pipe character) displays like this: Tip of the day.

2. Plural trick: While editing, you will often need to make a link to a plural. For example, suppose you wanted to link "Fred Foo was famous for his study of puddles" to puddle; you could link it like so:. However, you can save time by instead writing. This also works for adjectives, verbs , and any other suffixes or prefixes, like. It does not, however, work for some irregular verbs. For example,  does not work; you have to use. Nor does it work with apostrophes needed outside the wikilink like:.