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This is a Citizendium help page

This help page is meant for help and guidance only. It can be edited by any Citizen and, whilst we try to ensure it is accurate, it may not fully represent current policy.

Further guidance can be found at the How to edit an article page.

An External link in the Citizendium website is a hyper-link pointing to a specific resource (e.g., a page or document) in some other online website. Clicking on an external link connects you to that resource. Formatting an external link is done by enclosing the url of that resource in brackets and including an appropriate title for the resource. The resource title must be separated from the url by a single space. Thus, the format coding is simply [url title].

For example, placing [http://www.epa.gov/aboutepa/organization.html EPA Organizational Structure] on the edit page of an article or a talk page will result in displaying in the article or talk page as EPA Organizational Structure.

Note that the url in the above example is http://www.epa.gov/aboutepa/organization.html and the resource title is EPA Organizational Structure, and they are separated by a single blank space. Except in some rare special circumstances, a bare url (without an appropriate title) should not be used as an external link.

The difference between external links and internal links

As explained above, an external link points to a resource on some other website. An internal link is a hyper-link that points to a resource located elsewhere in Citizendium and is often referred to as a wiki link. Internal links are formatted differently than external links (see Help:Index/Formatting/Links/Internal for how to format internal links.)