Editing Help:Link (section)

=== Links containing ampersands ===

Because the [[Ampersand|ampersand character]] (&) is disallowed, it is not possible to create an ordinary link containing <code>&action=edit</code> or <code>&redirect=no</code> in the URL query string. These kinds of links can be helpful in user pages. Also, a redirect page can have categories and you might wish to view or edit these in a single click.  There are three ways to create these links:

* You can use the {{tl|Querylink}} template to append query parameters to a Wikipedia page URL. For example, <code><nowiki>{{Querylink|Help:Link|qs=action=history|this page's history}}</nowiki></code> produces the link {{Querylink|Help:Link|qs=action=history|this page's history}}.
* You can use the {{tl|Plain link}} template to encode a Wikimedia url link. For example,<code><nowiki>{{Plain link|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&logid=79269392|name=query}}</nowiki></code> yields the link {{plain link|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&logid=79269392|name=query}}.
* You can use the [[Help:Magic words|magic word]] <code>fullurl</code>. For example, to append <code>action=edit</code> to a URL query string you could use <code><nowiki>[{{fullurl:Help:Link|action=history}} this page's history]</nowiki></code>, which renders as [{{fullurl:Help:Link|action=history}} this page's history]. Note that this will render as an external link rather than as an internal link and for this reason it might not appear in what-links-here queries associated with the target page.