Help:Linking templates
Linking templates are tempaltes designed to inseret a link (or links) into a wiki page. They can serve as a shorthand for a link, so that the user need not remember the presice form of the link target. Linking tempaltes may also format the display of the link is a prefered or standardized way.
Linking tempaltes may create:
- a wiki-link to another page in the wiki;
- a link to a record in teh ISFDB itself; or
- a link to an external site
Many linking tempaltes use a parameter to specify what is to be linked to or how the link will be displayed. Some take no parameters. Most are documented on their respective talk pages.
The complete list of linking templates may be foud in Category:Linking templates.
The following table documents some of them:
Template name | Purpose | Required parameters | Optional parameters | |
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Links to ISFDB data | ||||
A | Link to an ISFDB Author record | the author's name, with any spaces replaced by underscores | name specifies the text for the link display | |
P | Link to an ISFDB publication record | the publication tag | name specifies the text for the link display | |
T | Link to an ISFDB title record | the title record number | name specifies the text for the link display | |
Links to ISFDB wiki pages | ||||
Publisher | Links to a page in the Publisher namespace | the title of the page | name specifies the text for the link display | |
Clute/Grant | Links to the page Reference:Clute/Grant | None | None | |
Reginald1 | Links to the page Reference:Reginald1 | None | None | |
Reginald3 | Links to the page Reference:Reginald3 | None | None | |
Tuck | Links to the page Reference:Tuck | None | None | |
Links to external sites | ||||
Amazon | Link to an amazon.com catalog record | Amazon ASIN or ISBN | name specifies the text for the link display | |
Amazon.ca | Link to an amazon.ca catalog record | Amazon ASIN or ISBN | name specifies the text for the link display | |
OCLC | Links to the OCLC fiction finder | None | None | |
LOC | Links to the Library of Congress Online Catalog | None | None | |
Locus | Links to the Locus Index to Science Fiction | None | None | |
Melvyl | Links to the Catalog of the University of California Libraries | None | None |