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Linking and
page manipulation
Linking and diffs
  • URLs
  • Links
  • Orphans
  • Interlanguage links
  • Interwiki linking
  • Shortcuts
  • External links
    • External link icons
    • Plainlinks
  • Link color
  • Colon trick
  • Pipe trick
  • Self links
  • What links here
  • Linksearch
  • Manual of Style on linking
  • Navigation templates
  • Hatnotes
  • Template index for links
  • Diffs
    • Simplest diff guide
    • Simple diff and link guide
    • Complete diff and link guide
Categorization
  • Category
  • Categorization guideline
  • Classification
  • Container category
  • FAQ for categorization
  • FAQ for categories
  • Categories, lists, and navigation templates
  • Categorization of people
    • By year
    • By ethnicity, gender, religion and sexuality
  • Redirect categories
  • User categories
  • Overcategorization
    • User categories
  • Template index for categories
Moving and redirecting
  • How to move a page for beginners
  • Redirects
  • Moving a page
  • Requested moves
  • How to fix cut-and-paste moves
  • Moving files to Commons
  • Userfication
  • Non-admin and admin-only moves
  • Template index for moving
  • Template index for redirects
Merging
  • Merging
  • Proposed article mergers
  • Requests for history merge
  • Merge and delete?
  • Merge what?
  • Delete or merge?
  • Template index for merging
  • WikiProject Merge
Splitting
  • Splitting
  • Template index for splitting
Importing and copying
  • How to import articles
  • Requests for page importation
  • Import
  • Export
  • Copying within Wikipedia
Protecting
  • Protection
  • Protection policy
  • High-risk templates
  • Requests for page protection
  • Rough guide to semi-protection
Additional
  • How to create a page
  • Article creation
  • Editing
  • Deletion process
  • v
  • t
  • e
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Usage[edit]

To reveal the contents of a list use the syntax ((Linking and page manipulation|listname))

For example, to expand the Linking and diff list, use ((Linking and page manipulation|linking and diffs)), as demonstrated to the side.

Linking and
page manipulation
Linking and diffs
  • URLs
  • Links
  • Orphans
  • Interlanguage links
  • Interwiki linking
  • Shortcuts
  • External links
    • External link icons
    • Plainlinks
  • Link color
  • Colon trick
  • Pipe trick
  • Self links
  • What links here
  • Linksearch
  • Manual of Style on linking
  • Navigation templates
  • Hatnotes
  • Template index for links
  • Diffs
    • Simplest diff guide
    • Simple diff and link guide
    • Complete diff and link guide
Categorization
  • Category
  • Categorization guideline
  • Classification
  • Container category
  • FAQ for categorization
  • FAQ for categories
  • Categories, lists, and navigation templates
  • Categorization of people
    • By year
    • By ethnicity, gender, religion and sexuality
  • Redirect categories
  • User categories
  • Overcategorization
    • User categories
  • Template index for categories
Moving and redirecting
  • How to move a page for beginners
  • Redirects
  • Moving a page
  • Requested moves
  • How to fix cut-and-paste moves
  • Moving files to Commons
  • Userfication
  • Non-admin and admin-only moves
  • Template index for moving
  • Template index for redirects
Merging
  • Merging
  • Proposed article mergers
  • Requests for history merge
  • Merge and delete?
  • Merge what?
  • Delete or merge?
  • Template index for merging
  • WikiProject Merge
Splitting
  • Splitting
  • Template index for splitting
Importing and copying
  • How to import articles
  • Requests for page importation
  • Import
  • Export
  • Copying within Wikipedia
Protecting
  • Protection
  • Protection policy
  • High-risk templates
  • Requests for page protection
  • Rough guide to semi-protection
Additional
  • How to create a page
  • Article creation
  • Editing
  • Deletion process
  • v
  • t
  • e

The listnames are linking and diffs, categorization, moving and redirecting, merging, splitting, importing and copying, protecting, see also.

About[edit]

This navigation template is in the form of a sidebar. It includes most links on page manipulation, but doesn't include article and page creation, the deletion process, or general editing links. Refer to the links in the see also section for details on these matters.

The above documentation is transcluded from Template:Linking and page manipulation/doc. (edit | history)
Editors can experiment in this template's sandbox (create | mirror) and testcases (create) pages.
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