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'''Jon..''' Coblat327 did some editing on the main page. The driveshaft link he added does not look correct when I clik on it. I may be incorrect and I am not gonna try any edit myself. [[User:Crosley|Crosley]] 15:10, 29 January 2012 (MST) | '''Jon..''' Coblat327 did some editing on the main page. The driveshaft link he added does not look correct when I clik on it. I may be incorrect and I am not gonna try any edit myself. [[User:Crosley|Crosley]] 15:10, 29 January 2012 (MST) | ||
:OK, thanks, I fixed it. That link color is for links to pages for which there is no content. When a new category is created, if there's no text on the category page, links to it will show in that color. I added "Driveshaft articles." to that page, so now the link is the correct color.--[[User:Jon|Jon]] 15:52, 29 January 2012 (MST) | :OK, thanks, I fixed it. That link color is for links to pages for which there is no content. When a new category is created, if there's no text on the category page, links to it will show in that color. I added "Driveshaft articles." to that page, so now the link is the correct color.--[[User:Jon|Jon]] 15:52, 29 January 2012 (MST) | ||
| − | + | ::'''Jon''', I thought when I finished the "Driveshaft measurements" page that it was linking to the new "Driveshaft" category correctly- I added "Category:Driveshaft" inside two brackets to the page to link it to the title page. Did I not do this correctly? I clicked on "Driveshaft" before I logged out and it was showing the "Driveshaft measurements" page then... unless that was due to what you did. | |
| − | + | :::It's tricky with categories. On the wiki, you can create a link to a page by enclosing a word in double brackets. If the page already exists, the bracketed word gets turned into a link to the page, in blue link color, like this: [[Rust]]. If the page '''does not''' already exist, the bracketed word gets turned into a link to a blank page, in red color, like this: [[How to change your blinker fluid]]. You can click on the red link, and start editing a page from there (some people use this method to start a new article). For example, you can click on your username in red text on this page, and start making your user page. Now, when you start a new category, even if you put pages in the category, the category page itself is blank, so the link shows as red. So, you have to add any text to the page, like: "Driveshaft articles." However, the category will still work fine, even if it's a red-link. Here's another example of a page with a bunch of red, undeveloped links: [[Quadrajet]].--[[User:Jon|Jon]] 11:10, 30 January 2012 (MST) | |
| − | '''Jon''', I thought when I finished the "Driveshaft measurements" page that it was linking to the new "Driveshaft" category correctly- I added "Category:Driveshaft" inside two brackets to the page to link it to the title page. Did I not do this correctly? I clicked on "Driveshaft" before I logged out and it was showing the "Driveshaft measurements" page then... unless that was due to what you did. | + | |
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