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To add a link to another wiki page, type <code>[[</code>, then the page name, then <code>]]</code>.
<pre>[[Main Page]]</pre>
[[Main Page]]

If you want to link to the page but don't want to type in the exact name of the page, add a <code>|</code> between the page name and the <code>]]</code>, and then write what you want the text to be.
<pre>[[Help Talk:Contents|The discussion page]]</pre>
[[Help Talk:Contents|The discussion page]]

To link to a page on Wikipedia, add <code>Wikipedia:</code> to your page name.
<pre>[[Wikipedia:Amnesia:_The_Dark_Descent|Amnesia: The Dark Descent on Wikipedia]]</pre>
[[Wikipedia:Amnesia:_The_Dark_Descent|Amnesia: The Dark Descent on Wikipedia]]

To link to somewhere outside of the wiki, type <code>[</code>, then the URL, followed by a space, the text you want to describe the link, and then <code>]</code>.
<pre>[https://www.google.com/ External link to Google]</pre>
[https://www.google.com/ External link to Google]

You can also just directly paste in a URL, but it doesn't look as nice

https://www.google.com/

A URL pointing to an image will display that image on a page. It won't have the best formatting however. Exercise caution when doing this and note that images from another website may change or disappear at any time.

{{tip|You normally only need to link a term the first time it is mentioned in an article, but if the separate mentions are far apart you might want to link it more than once.}}

==Red (broken) links==
It's O.K. to link to a non-existent page! We would prefer that you then created that page, if you know about it. What we don't want is a page that's just "todo: make this page".

If you've created a page and pre-existing links to it still show as red, add <code>?action=purge</code> to the end of the URLs to update their link colors. You can also do this by pressing the '''Edit''' button on the pages and saving them without changing anything.

{{note|Broken links are only detected for wiki pages, not external or Wikipedia links.}}

Links that link to their own pages (excluding ones redirecting to other sections) will appear to be '''bold'''.

==See Also==
*[[Special:BrokenRedirects]] - Pages that need to have redirect links fixed.
*[[Special:DeadendPages]] - Pages that need more links on them.
*[[Special:DoubleRedirects]] - Redirects that need to be fixed (chaining is bad).
*[[Special:LinkSearch]] - Search through external links.
*[[Special:ListRedirects]] - List of all redirects.
*[[Special:LonelyPages]] - Pages that need to be linked to in other places.
*[[Special:MostInterwikis]] - Lists pages with the highest number of links to other wikis. (as of July 23rd, 2018 it seems no pages link to more than one?)
*[[Special:MostLinkedCategories]] - Lists [[Help:Categories|categories]] that are most frequently linked to by other pages.
*[[Special:MostLinkedPages]] - Most linked-to pages.
*[[Special:PermanentLink]] - Generates permanent links for pages. Seems to not work currently.
*[[Special:RecentChangesLinked]] - Lists all recent changes to pages that are linked to by a certain page.
*[[Special:WantedPages]] - Pages that are linked to a lot, but do not exist.
*[[Special:WhatLinksHere]] - Shows pages that have links to a specific page.
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