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Links are texts that are covered in color, unlike regular text. When you click on a link, it directs you to another page. The following is a tutorial on how to create links.
Internal links
Internal links lead to other pages on Pikmin Fanon. For example, Main Page is a link to the wiki's main page, and is created with two square brackets: [[Main Page]].
To create an internal link with a description other than the page's name, include the link name after the page title after a pipe. e.g. [[Main Page|The main page]]
| Example | Result |
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[[Main Page|The main page]] |
The main page |
You don't always need to capitalize the first letter of a link for it to work like with "light", which should be lowercase except when it's the first word in a sentence. As long as light works just as well as Light, then using it in this way won't be mandatory: [[Light|light]].
You can also put characters like "s" after links to change them without having to have the link display as something else.
| Example | Result |
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[[Red Bulborb]]s |
Red Bulborbs |
[[poison]]ous |
poisonous |
To create an internal link that directs to a specific section of a page, an octothorp must be added after the page's name, followed by the page's section name:
| Example | Result |
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[[PikminFanon:About#History|About Pikmin Fanon]]. |
About Pikmin Fanon. |
Interwiki links
Interwiki links lead to pages on other wikis, such as Pikipedia or Wikipedia. To link to one of these pages, place an interwiki prefix before the page title. A list of allowed interwiki prefixes can be seen at Special:Interwiki.
Interwikis links are also created with two square brackets: [[<prefix name>:Main Page]].
| Example | Result |
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[[pikipedia:Main Page]] |
pikipedia:Main Page |
[[pikipedia:Main Page|Main page]] |
Main page |
That being said, using link templates such as {{w}} and {{c}} for the respective destinations is preferred.
External links
External links lead to anywhere else. They can either be created by placing a URL directly in a page's text, or by placing a URL followed by a title surrounded by single square brackets.
| Example | Result |
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http://www.google.com |
http://www.google.com |
[http://www.google.com Google] |