User blog:JoshuaJSlone/Tip for simpler forum links

Usually when linking to forum pages and not wanting the link to show Forum:, we do something like this

 ANGERME 3rd Generation Gallery 

This seemed wasteful, and I was actually working on a template to work around this. HOWEVER, I then learned that there's an even simpler way built in. If you use the | character after a wikilink and then simply don't put anything after that, it will show the link cutting out the namespace portion (Forum:, User:, Template:, whatever). So to do exactly the same thing as the example above, one can simply do

 Forum:ANGERME 3rd Generation Gallery