Template:User link

Example

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Usage

This template provides a way to link to a userpage and display just the username, like Example. This may not help much for a short username like "Example", but it can be more useful with long usernames such as Guywh0sitsbehindphilip12.

Example

{{user link|Example}}

or the shortcut form

{{u|Example}}

gives

Example

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|Guywh0sitsbehindphilip12|Guy}}

which gives

Guy

Alternative

The desired result can also be achieved using the pipe trick feature of the MediaWiki software. For example, the wikitext

[[User:Example|]]

gives

Example

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData documentation for this template used by VisualEditor and other tools.

User link

<templatedata> { "format": "inline", "params": { "1": { "label": "Username", "required": true, "type": "wiki-user-name" }, "2": { "label": "Custom label text", "default": "{{{1}}}", "type": "line" } } } </templatedata>

See also

• Help:Magic words
• {{Ping }}
• {{FlowMention }}

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