User:Cepstrum/Tips

'''My "Tips and Tricks" Page.

Please feel free to add/expand/correct!'''

Style

 * Dashes. Use "& n d a s h;" This yields " – ". We use it for offsetting parenthetical statements – such as this – to comply with MA's style guidelines.

Internal Linking

 * Linking to a section (anchor) in an article: Borg drone yields Borg drone.
 * Generic episode. yields.
 * Series-specific. yields.
 * Films. yields.
 * Multiples. yields.
 * Ships. USS Voyager yields USS Voyager.

External Linking

 * External links, type 1. yields  – an unlabeled, numbered link.
 * External links, type 2. Google yields Google – a labeled link.
 * External Wikipedia links.  yields  – an unlabeled, non-obvious link (though I've noticed if you zoom in, you can see a "Wikipedia" icon. Neat!
 * An explicit Wikipedia link.   yields.
 * A link to another Wikia wiki. Worf yields Worf – a "Wikia internal" link.

Links with special characters
''Note: I copied – verbatim – the following from Morder's sub-page, User:Morder/Strange. Thank you, Morder!''

[Here are the common characters found in Web links] &amp;#x20; &amp;#x21; ! &amp;#x22; " &amp;#x23; # &amp;#x24; $ &amp;#x25; % &amp;#x26; &amp; &amp;#x27; ' &amp;#x28; ( &amp;#x29; ) &amp;#x2A; * &amp;#x2B; + &amp;#x2C; ` &amp;#x2D; - &amp;#x2E; . &amp;#x2F; / &amp;#x3A; : &amp;#x3B; ; &amp;#x3C; < &amp;#x3D; = &amp;#x3E; > &amp;#x3F; ?
 * If you want to add an external url within a template param that contains an = sign [note: or other special character]...you'll have to format it with &#x3D
 * Example: Museum of the Confederacy