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Auto anchor— the anchor is automatically built by concatenating (running together) template fields such as the author last names and the year (e.g. SmithJones1999) Custom anchor— the anchor is created from text defined in a field; Reference- anchor— the anchor consists of Reference- plus the defined text; Anchor types can be combined.
Link to an anchor in the same article using just the anchor name, e.g. [[#Anchor name]]. (In the Visual Editor, type #Anchor name into the link field.) From a different article, link to an anchor by specifying the article name, followed by a #, then the anchor name. e.g. [[Article name#Anchor name]]. The # will be visible in the link text.
To link to an anchor from within the same page, use [[#Anchor name|display text]]. To link to an anchor from another page, use [[Article name#Anchor name|display text]]. See Help:Link § Section linking (anchors) for more details. Note that #Anchor name, used by the MediaWiki software to (usually) direct users to sections within a page, is not ...
The article ArticleName links here. --> so that if another user edits the title of that section, they can fix the incoming links (or, in cases where a section has a large number of incoming links, use {} on the anchor page). To link to a section within the same article, write: [[#Promotion to rook or bishop|§ promotion to a rook or bishop]].
To link to an anchor from within the same page, use [[#Anchor name|display text]]. To link to an anchor from another page, use [[Article name#Anchor name|display text]]. See Help:Link § Section linking (anchors) for more details. Note that #Anchor name, used by the MediaWiki software to (usually) direct users to sections within a page, is not ...
A link has various (changeable) appearances on the "anchor" page, and the "target" page, which owns the "backlinks", and which can count the links to it with the WP:What links here tool. For a short list of some basic shortcuts, see Wikipedia:Cheatsheet. For guidelines on how links should be used in Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Linking.
The anchor might also be an old section header that has been edited and is anchored within or near the new header to prevent broken internal and external links. Even though section headers of the general form ==(Header name)== are themselves a type of anchor, use {{ R to section }} instead .
[[Category:Section and anchor link formatting templates]] to the <includeonly> section at the bottom of that page. Otherwise, add <noinclude>[[Category:Section and anchor link formatting templates]]</noinclude> to the end of the template code, making sure it starts on the same line as the code's last character.