Two Link Formats for Bracketed Links – Colon Format and Number Format. Number Format More Durable.

This Nugget has been written by M3 on 24 May at 9:32AM

Category: Site Tips and Tricks

Club links can be entered in either of two formats:
  1. Colon Format which uses a colon followed by the club's (or other item's) name such as Club:ClubvsClub Meeting Place (or Info:Linking Within GoldToken) with {} and spaces around it. (The link works the same whether you place one space or no space right after the colon.)
    • A club's name is only the characters which show as a colored link without site-added black text such as "The" at the start and "Club" at the end of the name. Please omit such black characters from a Colon Format Wiki Link.
  2. Number Format which uses a number-or-pound symbol (#) followed by the club's (or other item's) number such as Club#2455 (or Info#46) with {} and spaces around it.
    • You can view a club's number by hovering your cursor over your club's hyperlink.
      • Then you can copy and paste the number if you wish to be absolutely sure that you use the right number.
(Sometimes this website forcibly converts a link to the number format (or maybe the other way around); so, I put the two above without the {} to avoid that to let you see what I am talking about.)

These two ways also work for player and blog (web log) links. This site does not add extra black text to those.
Player:M3 and Player#38147 are the two formats for the same link.
Blog:M3 and Blog#38147

This carries over to site-wide links for club wikis in which the club's name may be entered in either format followed by a colon before the name of the wiki, for examples,
[ Chess4Fun: Wiki Start Page ]
Chess4Fun:Wiki Start Page or Club#1:Wiki Start Page
[ Wiki Start Page ]
Down With Regular Chess:Wiki Start Page or Club#1750:Wiki Start Page

I think that the number stays the same even if the name is changed; so, I think that the number is more stable and might be better to use to avoid dead links.
 
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