Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-28541872-20170112213607/@comment-168424-20170112232757

FYI, westeros.org is not a Wikia wiki, so code from there may not always be compatible with Wikia wikis. Also, not all MediaWiki based wikis will be compatible with each other depending on which version of the engine they have and the extensions they use.

Help:Templates has some of the information you need, but is missing more that it could have. You can also find more info at Help:Links and Help:Wikitext.

Some of your guess at how linking and transclusion were close, but not quite right.

Basic wikitext link info:
 * Wikitext:  &larr; external link
 * Wikitext:  &larr; external link
 * Wikitext:  &larr; external link with link text changed
 * Wikitext:  &larr; internal link
 * Wikitext:  &larr; internal link with link text changed (adding   before the   in examples below also works to show different link text)
 * Wikitext:  &larr; internal link to category page rather than add page it's on to category
 * Wikitext:  &larr; internal link to file/image page rather than file/image shown

Basic transclusion info (for templates and other pages):
 * Wikitext:  &larr; transclude template page (name like  )
 * Wikitext:  &larr; transclude page

You also missed  which is one of my favorites.

Most of my templates have wikitext like this: Description and template docs...

Stuff the template actually does... Stuff to make template look nice on template page only ...more template stuff...
 * Template

is overused.