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External links and references are two important elements of Wikipedia that newcomers sometimes find trouble with. This page is designed to cover only the technical aspects of linking and referencing; it is essential that editors also familiarize themselves with Wikipedia:External links, Wikipedia:Reliable sources and Wikipedia:Citing sources, as well as Wikipedia's various other policies ...
Here readers would see the link displayed as particle physics, not the hidden reference to the page Parton (particle physics), unless they followed the link or inspected the target title e.g. by mousing over it. If a physical copy of the article were printed, or the article saved as an audio file, the reference to the parton model would be lost.
Unlike page headings, table headers do not automatically generate link anchors. Aside from sentence case in glossaries, the heading advice also applies to the term entries in description lists . If using template-structured glossaries , terms will automatically have link anchors, but will not otherwise.
A piped link is an internal link or interwiki link where the link target and link label are both specified. This is needed in the case that they are not equal, while also the link label is not equal to the link target with the last word extended: [[cheese]] (label = target, no pipe needed) produces cheese, linked to the article Cheese.
Linking to Wikipedia from your own website You are welcome to link to Wikipedia articles (and other Wikipedia pages, such as this one) from your own website. You do not need to ask us first .
Besides those kinds of links listed in § Restrictions on linking, these external-link guidelines do not apply to citations to reliable sources within the body of the article. If the website or page to which you want to link includes information that is not yet a part of the article, consider using it as a source for the article, and citing it.
MOS:LINK says '"Link only the first occurrence of an item. A link that had last appeared much earlier in the article may be repeated, but generally not in the same section. (Table entries are an exception to this; each row of a table should be able to stand on its own.)" but how should this be applied to, say List of operettas by Offenbach ...
As a general rule, the "See also" section should not repeat links that appear in the article's body. [9] Editors should provide a brief annotation when a link's relevance is not immediately apparent, when the meaning of the term may not be generally known, or when the term is ambiguous. For example: