Help:Piped link

Piped links are useful for preserving the grammatical structure and flow of a sentence when:


 * the wording of the exact link title does not fit in context,
 * or there are multiple meanings of the word.

To create the pipe ("|") character (also known as a vertical bar), you may press (SHIFT + BACKSLASH) on English-layout keyboards.

There is disagreement about whether it is appropriate to pipe year numbers to "year-in-x" articles (such as 1930 ).


 * Another possibility is to link to a more specific article about that year, for example 1930, although some people find this unintuitive because the link leads to an unexpected destination.

When not to use
First of all, keep links as simple as possible:


 * Avoid making links longer than necessary: write "president George Washington ", not " president George Washington ".
 * It is generally not good practice to pipe links simply to avoid redirects. The number of links to a redirect page can be a useful gauge of when it would be helpful to spin off a subtopic of an article into its own page.
 * Given the option to pipe a link or to "blend" an affix, preferred style is to use a blended affix. Write simply NFS members hip instead of complicated NFS membership . Both display identically as NFS membership.
 * Never use piped links to convert first letter to lower case: write simply File Organization instead of complicated file organization . Both display identically as file organization.