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Revision as of 11:18, 4 May 2026
 | This is a documentation subpage for Template:User link. It contains usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original page. |
Usage
This template provides a way to link to a userpage and display just the username, like [[User:Example|Example]]. This may not help much for a short username like "Example", but it can be more useful with long usernames such as [[User:Guywh0sitsbehindphilip12|Guywhositsbehindphilip12]].
Example
{{user link|Example}}
or the shortcut form
{{u|Example}}
gives
The template's second parameter, which is optional, takes the link's label; for example, a link to the long username used above can be shortened while viewing the text like this:
{{u|Guywhositsbehindphilip12|Guy}}
which gives
Alternative
The desired result can also be achieved using the pipe trick feature of the MediaWiki software. For example, the wikitext
[[User:Example|]]
gives
See also