Board Thread:Support Requests - Community Management/@comment-25917576-20190718110824/@comment-9605025-20190718210515

Piped links allow for a specific link to be better integrated into the surrounding text without the need for creating a ton of redirect pages; which are no different from actual pages as MediaWiki is concerned. Let say you have the character "Jonathan Maximilian Smith". Do you really want to be creating a redirect for every possible shorthand?


 * 1) Jonathan Max Smith
 * 2) Jonathan M. Smith
 * 3) Jonathan Smith
 * 4) Jonathan
 * 5) John Maximilian Smith
 * 6) John Max Smith
 * 7) John M. Smith
 * 8) John Smith
 * 9) John
 * 10) J.M. Smith
 * 11) J.M.S.
 * 12) J. Smith
 * 13) J.S.

You get even more possibilities when the character has a title.


 * 1) Doctor Jonathan Maximilian Smith
 * 2) Dr. Jonathan Maximilian Smith

That isn't so say that you can't use redirect pages. However, it seems to me to be easier just to use the pipe instead.

Also, for those who don't know, I am pretty sure this thread is connected to this one. Hey, look at that, another use for piped links.