Help:How do I make an internal link?
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Basic Link
A basic link is simply the name of the page to link to surrounded by pairs of square brackets, like this:
[[some page to link to]]
When you make a link, like [[Metals Bank]], which displays as Metals Bank, if it is blue, that means the article already exists. Note that in links, spelling and punctuation must be the exact title of the page. Metals bank is a red link because no page with that exact title (lower case B) exists. We can and should make redirects for common variations like that.
A Link With A display different from the "Linked To" Page Name
One nice thing that can be done is to change the text of the link so that its different from the actual name of the page you're linking to.
Method 1: A Piped Link
Piped links works like an HTML anchor tag, where the first part (before the pipe) is the link and the second part (after the pipe) is the label, or what is displayed. The vertical line or pipe | is the character on your keyboard that looks like two vertical hyphens, probably the upper-case character on the backslash key just above the "enter" key.
[[Detjens, Christopher Max| Max]] generates the following display: Max
The actual name of the page is "Detjens, Christopher Max" but what is displayed as the link text is just "Max".
Another example: On the Content Index page, the list shows "The Acoma". But the actual page name is "Acoma". This is accomplished with a link like this: [[Acoma|The Acoma]], which displays as The Acoma. This is also how we make actual address page names start with the street (for proper alphabetization by categories), but the display looks like a normal address: [[Park 67 W.|67 W. Park]] says the real article name is "Park 67 W.", but we display it as 67 W. Park.
Method 2: A redirection page
Another other way is to create a redirection page. This is good when the informal usage is common. In those cases that informal name should be redirected to the formalized page. NHLD is such a page.
To make one simply add the following bit of code on the page that you want to simply be a place holder for your formal page. There should be no other content in the page besides this.
#REDIRECT [[National Historic Landmark District]]
See How do I make a page redirect to another? for more information on redirection.
