Help:Links

In-line linking is an important part of creating and editing articles on Blooncyclopedia. (Also, having more links improves our SEO.)

The basics

Wikitext can be converted to a link by surrounding it in two square brackets.

Wikitext	Result
[[Bloon]]	Bloon
[[Striker Jones]]	Striker Jones

The first character in a link is not case-sensitive, so you can write it in lowercase and the link will still work.

Wikitext	Result
[[monkey]]	monkey
[[map]]	map

Text placed directly after the closing brackets (if there is no space to separate them) will be included in the link's display text, without changing the page it links to. This is usually used for pluralization. This also works with the aforementioned capitalization technique. How convenient!

Wikitext	Result
[[Tower]]s	Towers
[[Hero]]es	Heroes
[[sell]]ing	selling

If you need your link to display different text and you can't use the above, you can add a pipe character (|) after the link text, then add the display text after the pipe but before the closing brackets. You can use wikitext markup inside the display text if you, for example, want to display only part of the link in italics.

Wikitext	Result
[[Spike Factory|Spike Factories]]	Spike Factories
[[Quincy|Son of Quincy]]	Son of Quincy
[[List of music in BMC|Music of ''Bloons Monkey City'']]	Music of Bloons Monkey City

If the title of the article contains an identifier in parentheses, the identifier can be removed from the link's display text by simply leaving the space after the pipe character empty. This also works with the capitalization and pluralization tricks mentioned before, so you can simplify the wikitext for a link by a lot in some cases.

Wikitext	Equivalent to	Result
[[Bloons (game)|]]	[[Bloons (game)|Bloons]]	Bloons
[[weapon (BSM2)|]]s	[[Weapon (BSM2)|weapons]]	weapons

Linking to sections

Sub-sections of an article can be linked to by adding a hash character (#), then the name of the section.

Wikitext	Result
[[Dart Monkey#Gameplay]]	Dart Monkey#Gameplay
[[Paragon#Paragon power|Paragon power]]	Paragon power

Linking to images and categories

By default, image and category links work differently from ordinary links: inserting a link to an image will embed that image into the page, and inserting a category will add the page to that category page, and neither will insert a link into the wikitext directly. If you need to link specifically to an image or category, add a colon (:) before the namespace.

Wikitext	Result
[[:File:BTD6 000-SuperMonkey.png]]	File:BTD6 000-SuperMonkey.png
[[:Category:Monkeys]]	Category:Monkeys

Linking to other wikis

Certain other wikis can be linked to using interwiki prefixes. The two interwiki prefixes used most often on Blooncyclopedia are wp for Wikipedia and tcrf for the The Cutting Room Floor.

Wikitext	Result
[[wp:Bloons TD 6|''Bloons TD 6'' on Wikipedia]]	Bloons TD 6 on Wikipedia
[[tcrf:Bloons TD 6|''Bloons TD 6'' on The Cutting Room Floor]]	Bloons TD 6 on The Cutting Room Floor

Just like with identifiers in parentheses, interwiki links can be simplified by leaving the space after the pipe character empty. In fact, if a link contains both, both will be removed.

Wikitext	Result
[[wp:Ninja Kiwi|]]	Ninja Kiwi
[[tcrf:Bloons TD 5 (Adobe Flash)|]]	Bloons TD 5

External links

You can create links to other websites by surrounding the URL in single square brackets. To change the display text, add a space after the URL, then add your wikitext.

Wikitext	Result
[https://www.example.com]	[1]
[https://www.example.com This is a website link]	This is a website link
[https://www.example.com This is a '''''fancy''''' website link]	This is a fancy website link

Link templates

These templates can be used to simplify creating links with complex display text.

The full list of link templates can be found here.

Case	Wikitext	Equivalent to	Result
Game series	{{series|Bloons TD}}	[[Bloons TD (series)|''Bloons TD'' series]]	Bloons TD series