Editing Help:What links here (section)

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Within the Tools section at the top-right of every page (in the [[Help:Preferences#Appearance|standard view]]) is a link labeled "'''What links here'''". This is used to see a list of the pages that [[Help:Link|link]] to (or [[WP:Redirect|redirect]] to, or [[WP:Transclusion|transclude]]) the current page. These are sometimes referred to as '''[[backlink]]s'''.

It is possible to make a wikilink to the "What links here" list for a particular page; to do this type <code><nowiki>[[Special:WhatLinksHere/</nowiki>''Page&nbsp;name'']]</code>, replacing ''Page name'' with the title of the target page. (The same text, without the square brackets, can also be entered in the search box, to access "What links here" for any page title.)

It is also possible to list the pages with <code><nowiki>{{Special:WhatLinksHere/</nowiki>''Page&nbsp;name''|namespace=''number''<nowiki>}}</nowiki></code>, where ''Page name'' is the name of the page, and <code>namespace</code> (optional) is [[help:namespace|the number of the namespace]]. E.g. <code><nowiki>{{Special:WhatLinksHere/Help:What links here|namespace=0}}</nowiki></code> lists all pages from article space that link to this page.

To use the tool, click '''[[Special:WhatLinksHere]]''' and type in the page title.

"What links here" is limited to showing actual backlinks. Pages which contain the title being searched for, but where the title has not been linked, are not included in the results. An alternative script ([[User:Lourdes/Backlinks]]) exists to search for such pages, where possible unlinked backlinks may exist for the respective article.