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I'd actually gotten the notion from somewhere I'd edited on here that <nowiki>[:Category:</nowiki> was the way I had to do it. <nowiki>[Category:</nowiki> it is then!
 
I'd actually gotten the notion from somewhere I'd edited on here that <nowiki>[:Category:</nowiki> was the way I had to do it. <nowiki>[Category:</nowiki> it is then!
 
--[[User:Brendan|Brendan]] ([[User talk:Brendan|talk]]) 06:41, 16 March 2014 (CDT)
 
--[[User:Brendan|Brendan]] ([[User talk:Brendan|talk]]) 06:41, 16 March 2014 (CDT)
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:It always depend what you are trying to do. Usually you want to add something into a category. Then you use <nowiki>[[Category:…]]</nowiki>, but when you want to link to a category, e.g. the {{Tl|Infobox/Part/Manufacturer}} does this a lot, you use <nowiki>[[:Category:…]]</nowiki>. So maybe, when you got the notion it was actually linking to the category. This is by the way similar to files. With <nowiki>[[File:…]]</nowiki> it is shown directly but with <nowiki>[[:File:…]]</nowiki> you can directly link to it without embedding it. — [[User:XZise|xZise]] <small>&#91;[[User talk:XZise|talk]]&#93;</small> 07:03, 16 March 2014 (CDT)

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Linking to the manned experiments

Hi, I just wanted to note, that when you link to manned experiments (Crew Report, EVA Report and Surface Sample) please link to [[Crew Report]] (etc.) because you recently changed the section titles from e.g. Crew Reports to Crew Report. Now if every article had linked to Crew Report instead of [[Science#Crew Reports]] only that one article (Crew Report) needs to be updated. Also when there might be a real article in Crew Report no links to it need to be updated.

The only exception is within Science itself, because then the browser can simply scroll down instead of loading a new page and then scrolling down. — xZise [talk] 06:26, 16 March 2014 (CDT)

[[EVA Report]] and [[Surface Sample]] with redirects certainly save some hassles typing. Awesome. --Brendan (talk) 06:43, 16 March 2014 (CDT)

Categorising images

Thank you that you tried to categorise images you upload. But unfortunately those categorisation doesn't work properly how you do it. When you use a category like [[:Category:Images of Kerbals]] it won't be added to the category but instead simply linking to it. I've already fixed that but it might be that you didn't noticed. Now I don't know if this is simply the MediaWiki software because it appears that you enter the category in the upload description box and maybe the software automatically changes the link from [[Category:Images of Kerbals]] to [[:Category:Images of Kerbals]]. — xZise [talk] 06:26, 16 March 2014 (CDT)


I'd actually gotten the notion from somewhere I'd edited on here that [:Category: was the way I had to do it. [Category: it is then! --Brendan (talk) 06:41, 16 March 2014 (CDT)

It always depend what you are trying to do. Usually you want to add something into a category. Then you use [[Category:…]], but when you want to link to a category, e.g. the {{Infobox/Part/Manufacturer}} does this a lot, you use [[:Category:…]]. So maybe, when you got the notion it was actually linking to the category. This is by the way similar to files. With [[File:…]] it is shown directly but with [[:File:…]] you can directly link to it without embedding it. — xZise [talk] 07:03, 16 March 2014 (CDT)