Editing Eurovision Wiki:Tip of the day/March 19

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'''1. Magic pipe trick''': [[Synonym]]ous article titles may be clarified with terms in parentheses, like this: '''<nowiki>[[Self (psychology)]]</nowiki>'''. But when you want to include such a link in the body of an article, this would look rather awkward.  So all you have to do is use the "[[Help:Pipe trick|magic pipe trick]]", like this: '''<nowiki>[[Self (psychology)|]]</nowiki>'''.  Notice the [[Vertical bar|pipe]] ("|") character stuck in there at the end of the link?  That makes the link look like this: [[Self (psychology)|Self]], without having to type the name of the link after the pipe! This trick also works with namespaces, so that <code><nowiki>[[Wikipedia:Tip of the day|]]</nowiki></code> (again notice the pipe character) displays like this: [[Wikipedia:Tip of the day|Tip of the day]].

'''2. Plural trick''': While editing, you will often need to make a link to a [[plural]]. For example, suppose you wanted to link "Fred Foo was famous for his study of puddles" to [[puddle]]; you could link it like so: <code><nowiki>[[puddle|puddles]]</nowiki></code>. However, you can save time by instead writing <code><nowiki>[[puddle]]s</nowiki></code>. This also works for [[adjective]]s (<code><nowiki>[[Japan]]ese</nowiki></code>), [[verb]]s (<code><nowiki>[[dance]]d</nowiki></code>), and any other [[suffix]]es or [[prefix]]es, like <code><nowiki>[[bring]]ing</nowiki></code>. It does not, however, work for some irregular verbs. For example, <code><nowiki>[[try]]ied</nowiki></code> does not work; you have to use <code><nowiki>[[try|tried]]</nowiki></code>. Nor does it work with apostrophes needed outside the wikilink like: <code><nowiki>[[J. R. R. Tolkien]]'s</nowiki></code>.

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