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Welcome to the sandbox for Tutorial/Wikipedia links !
This page allows you to carry out experiments. Edit in the window below, and click the Publish changes button when finished. You may try to link articles and add categories. For more information or help, click on [show] below. Content will not stay permanently; this page is automatically cleaned every 12 hours, although it tends to be overwritten by other testing users much faster than that. |
To make a link to another Wikipedia page, put it in double square brackets, like this:
- [[Sandbox]] = Sandbox
If you want to link to an article, but display some other text for the link, you can do so by adding the pipe "|" divider (SHIFT + BACKSLASH on English-layout and other keyboards) followed by the alternative name. For example:
- [[Target page|display text]] = display text
You can make a link to a specific section of a page like so:
- [[Bird#Evolution and taxonomy|evolution of bird]] = evolution of bird
If you want the display text of the link to appear in italics or bold, nest the double square brackets for the link within the multiple apostrophes that delimit the italicized or bold text, like this:
- ''[[War and Peace]]'' = War and Peace
If you want to link an article with a singular name but display the plural name, you need simply to do this:
- [[bird]]s = birds
It is also important to know when linking and not, for example the same article should generally not be linked several times, but only its first instance, see Wikipedia:Linking for more information.
Make also sure you linked the intended article !
You can also put the article in a category with others in a related topic. Just type [[Category:]], and put the name of the category between the colon and the brackets, for example [[Category:Sandboxes]] to add this page to the category named sandboxes. Categories are important, there are a way to find an article !
For how to insert images, see Wikipedia:Images and Wikipedia:Picture tutorial.