Wikipedia:Tip of the day/September 19, 2008

Link tricks

Here are a couple tricks to reduce the amount of typing needed to create links:

1. The pipe trick: A pipe (|) at the end of the link to a page will hide disambiguations (the part of a page name in parentheses) and namespace prefixes ("Talk:", "Wikipedia:" etc.) from the visible link. For example: Lord of the Rings (movie) becomes Lord of the Rings, which is shown as Lord of the Rings (the part in parentheses is hidden). For a namespace example: About is converted to About, which is shown as About.

2. Plural trick: Often, you'll be editing an article and 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 as puddles. However, you can save time instead by writing puddles, which displays as puddles. This also works for adjectives ( Japanese ), verbs ( danced ) and any other suffixes or prefixes. It does not, however, work for some irregular verbs ( tryied will display as tryied, so you have to use tried to get tried).

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