Editing Incubator escapee wiki:Help desk/Archive 8 (section)

== Auto-external linking of RFC names ==

While editing the [[delta encoding]] article I discovered that the double square brackets around an [[RFC]] name are ignored, which makes for an ugly page. Here's an example: [[RFC 1]]. The RFC name is automatically linked to the actual RFC text on the IETF website, which was suprising for me as I didn't realize Wikipedia did any automatic linking like this. Actually, after some searching of the help pages, I could find no list of automatic links, not even a mention of the RFC auto-linking. Can anyone point me to more info on this? --[[User:Jarsyl|Jarsyl]] 06:20, 2004 Sep 6 (UTC)

:I have added it to [[m:Help:Editing]].--[[User:Patrick|Patrick]] 08:22, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)

::If you want to make a link to the wikipedia page called <nowiki>RFC 1</nowiki>, put it inside nowiki tags, like this: [[<nowiki>RFC 1</nowiki>]] that is, <nowiki>[[&lt;nowiki&gt;RFC 1&lt;/nowiki&gt;]]</nowiki> --[[User:Goplat|Goplat]] 15:40, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)

:::This links to the edit page even if the page exists; easier and without this problem is putting an underscore: [[RFC_1]]--[[User:Patrick|Patrick]] 02:00, 7 Sep 2004 (UTC)

:As far as I know, the only other auto-link is for ISBNs. "ISBN" followed by a number will auto-link to our book-source page. -- [[User:Cyrius|Cyrius]]|[[User talk:Cyrius|✎]] 17:00, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)

:See [[Help:Link#ISBN, RFC and PMID automatic links]] --[[Special:Contributions/169.232.246.195|169.232.246.195]] ([[User talk:169.232.246.195|talk]]) 20:49, 30 May 2010 (UTC)