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2. Help:External links and references - Wikipedia

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   External links and references are two important elements of Wikipedia that newcomers sometimes find trouble with. This page is designed to cover only the technical aspects of linking and referencing; it is essential that editors also familiarize themselves with Wikipedia:External links, Wikipedia:Reliable sources and Wikipedia:Citing sources, as well as Wikipedia's various other policies ...

3. Template:Linking - Wikipedia

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   Linking to existing Wikipedia pages is done by placing doubled square brackets around the name of the page. Thus, [[Wikipedia]] produces Wikipedia. A useful expansion of this is done by separating what you want linked, from what you want displayed, with a pipe character ("|"), to create a "piped link".

4. Hyperlink - Wikipedia

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   An example of a hyperlink as commonly seen in a web browser, with a computer mouse pointer hovering above it Visual abstraction of several documents being connected by hyperlinks. In computing, a hyperlink, or simply a link, is a digital reference to data that the user can follow or be guided to by clicking or tapping. [1]

5. Wikipedia:External links - Wikipedia

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   For example, if the official website of a now-defunct company is no longer functional, then a good archived copy could be preferable to no link; however, if the article links to a page with many relevant photos of the subject, then it would usually be better to change the link to a different website that also has many photos than to link to an ...

6. Wikipedia:Manual of Style - Wikipedia

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   If there are many links to the old title, [i] create an anchor with that title to ensure that these still work. Similarly, when linking to a section, leave an invisible comment at the heading of the target section, naming the linking articles, so that if the heading is later altered these can be fixed. For (a combined) example:

7. Help:Link - Wikipedia

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   A wikilink that links to a section and that appears as [[page name#section name]] can link to that section through the canonical page name (the title on the page with the actual content) or through the page name of any redirect to it, in which case the page name is the name of a redirect page.