Mortona8
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Making links
editHi! I'm Carrie. I happened to drop by the sandbox and notice you'd done this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_for_Psychological_Science
If that was what you meant to do, then ignore this, but I wondered if you were trying to link to the Association for Psychological Science page with a link that read APS. If so, the main thing that went wrong is that you got the two bits the wrong way round. You always need to say where you want to go before what you want the link to look like.
The second thing is that there are two kinds of links, external links, and internal links (called wikilinks). It's unusual to link to a page on Wikipedia with an external link, partly because it's confusing for readers, and partly because wikilinks are easier to make. You don't need the URL for a wikilink, just the page title. So you could put
- [[Association for Psychological Science|APS]], which would look like APS.
If you do want to make an external link, you only need one set of square brackets, and instead of the pipe (|) you just leave a space. Like this:
- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_for_Psychological_Science APS], which looks like APS.
If you use the double brackets and the pipe, you get [[1]]. (If there was a space in the link text, you'd get everything after the first space instead of the 1).
If you'd already figured all that out, then don't worry about this. CarrieVS (talk) 21:16, 4 February 2013 (UTC)
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