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Once you save a red link there, and create the page, the link will turn blue and will be accessible anytime you visit it. Go to your user or user talk page (both permanently linked at the top of any Wikipedia page); Surround the page title you want to create in doubled brackets, e.g., [[Proposed Title]]; Click the Publish changes button;
If there are one or more shortcuts for a page or section, one or more will usually be chosen to be displayed in an information box on the right labelled Shortcut or Shortcuts, as can be seen at the top of this page. Shortcuts are created for the convenience of editors. It is possible to create a shortcut for any page.
To use one of these, press edit above, and copy the name of the menu you want to use (but without the curly brackets) and paste it into the search box to the left and press "Go". Then press edit again and select and copy the whole page (using ctrl-C). Then create a new page called User:USERNAME/Menu, and paste what you copied to there. Edit it ...
That makes your user page one of the most easily accessible pages to you on Wikipedia, making it a powerful tool. One of the things you can use your user page for is navigation. It is the perfect place for bookmarks and navbars/navboxes, to get you where you need to go on Wikipedia and related destinations fast.
This template is a cut-down instance of the more general {{Google custom}} template. You may wish to make similar templates if you need to create repetitive links to other portions of Wikipedia that {{Google custom}} can search.
For example, to use Google to find all Wikipedia pages with the word "Wyly," type Wyly site:en.Wikipedia.org into the Google search box. An external search engine could turn up a page that the internal search engine missed, since external search engines can be more tolerant of misspellings than Wikipedia's.
To create a redirect to a page: Via wiki markup: Click the button and type the destination page or use the code #REDIRECT [[Destination]]. Via VisualEditor: Use the menu and then click Page settings to choose a destination page.
in your sandbox – this is a page you can always easily find, by clicking 'Sandbox' at the top of any page at Wikipedia by tapping the user icon in the top right corner to show the menu linking your sandbox. Downside: you can only create one article at a time there, and it's not so easy for other editors to find. in a user subpage.