Help:Link
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This page explains how to make the wikilink, interwiki link, or external web link (as hyperlinks) connections on Wikipedia, which gives readers one-click access to other Wikipedia pages, other Wikimedia projects, and external websites.
"H:L" redirects here. For help with lists, see Help:List.
This page is about how to mark up links. For a very basic tutorial, see Wikipedia:Tutorial/Wikipedia links. For various URLs of Wikipedia and other Wikimedia servers, see Help:URL.
This help page is a how-to guide. It details processes or procedures of some aspect(s) of Wikipedia's norms and practices. It is not one of Wikipedia's policies or guidelines, and may reflect varying levels of consensus and vetting. |
A link has various (changeable) appearances on the "anchor" page, and the "target" page, which owns the "backlinks", and which can count the links to it with the WP:What links here tool.
For a short list of some basic shortcuts, see Wikipedia:Cheatsheet.
For guidelines on how links should be used in Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Linking.