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The United Colonies are NPC's.

• A link to another Wiki article.
• Thus the link above is to the URL http://wiki.astroempires.com/index.php/NPC%27s, which is the article with the name "NPC's".

The United Colonies are [[NPC's]].

The United Colonies are Non-Player Characters.

• Same target, different name.
• The target ("piped") text must be placed first, then the text to be displayed, second.

The United Colonies are [[NPC's|Non-Player Characters]]

Ikari has an Upgraded account.

Examples include Corvettes, moons, and guilds.

• Endings are blended into the link.
• Preferred style is to use this instead of a piped link, if possible.
• Blending can be suppressed by using <nowiki></nowiki> tags, which may be desirable in some instances. Example:

a BetaServer.

Ikari has an [[Upgrade]]d account.

Examples include [[Corvette]]s, [[moon]]s,
and [[guild]]s.

a [[Beta]]<nowiki>Server
</nowiki>

Everyone loves Ikari is a page that does not exist yet.

• You can create it by clicking on the link.
• To create a new page:
  1. Create a link to it on some other (related) page.
  2. Save that page.
  3. Click on the link you just made. The new page will open for editing.
• Please do not create a new article without linking to it from at least one other article.

[[Everyone loves Ikari]]
is a brilliant page!

The character tilde (~) is used when adding a comment to a Talk page. You should sign your comment by appending four tildes (~~~~) to the comment so as to add your user name plus date/time:

User:Ikari 13:40, Dec 12, 2008 (GMT)

Adding three tildes (~~~) will add just your user name:

User:Ikari

and adding five tildes (~~~~~) gives the date/time alone:

13:40, Dec 12, 2008 (GMT)

• The first two both provide a link to your user page.

The character '''tilde''' (~) is used 
when adding a comment to a Talk page. 
You should sign your comment by 
appending four tildes (~~~~)
to the comment so as to add your 
user name plus date/time:
: ~~~~
Adding three tildes (~~~) will add 
just your user name:
: ~~~
and adding five tildes (~~~~~) gives 
the date/time alone:
: ~~~~~

• Redirect one article title to another by placing a directive like the one shown to the right on the first line of the article (such as at a page titled "Beta").
• It is possible to redirect to a section. For example, a redirect to Portal:Beta Server#Beta Server will redirect to the Portal:Beta Server page, to the Server Overview section, if it exists.

#REDIRECT [[Portal:Beta Server]]

#REDIRECT [[Portal:Beta Server#Beta Server]] will redirect to the 
[[Portal:Beta Server]] page, to the Server Overview section, 
if it exists. 

• To put an article in a category, place a link like the one to the right anywhere in the article. It does not matter where you put these links while editing as they will always show up in the same place when you save the page, but placement at the end of the edit box is recommended.

[[Category:Beta Server]]

• To link to a category page without putting the article into the category, use an initial colon (:) in the link.

[[:Category:Beta Server]]

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1. Bare URL: http://www.astroempires.com/ (bad style)
2. Unnamed link: [1] (only used within article body for footnotes)
3. Named link: Astro Empires

• Square brackets indicate an external link. Note the use of a space (not a pipe) to separate the URL from the link text in the "named" version.
• In the URL, all symbols must be among:
  A-Z a-z 0-9 . _ \ / ~ % - + & # ? ! = ( ) @

Three ways to link to
external (non-wiki) sources:
# Bare URL: 
http://www.astroempires.com/ 
(bad style)
# Unnamed link: 
[http://www.astroempires.com/] 
(only used within article body 
for footnotes)
# Named link: 
[http://www.astroempires.com Astro Empires]

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