Forum:SH Archive/PSA: piping links

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This is a public service announcement regarding a nifty little trick for using piped links. There are a few here that use it, but it seems a lot of people still aren't aware of it.

When you have something with parenthesis after it, like "Shatterpoint (novel)", and you just want it to say Shatterpoint, just put Shatterpoint (novel). You don't have to put anything after the pipe; it will automatically put whatever is before the parenthesis. Also, it will ignore anything with a colon before it. This can work for you or against you. It can come in handy, like when LOL becomes LOL. But depending on the situation, it coult be bad, like when Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (novel) becomes A New Hope.

So there you have it. -- Ozzel 07:49, 28 February 2007 (UTC)