Help:Colon trick
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The colon trick is a method of providing a link to a category or image without adding the page to the category or displaying the image.
By adding a colon just inside the opening double square brackets of the link, the default behaviour of the MediaWiki software will be bypassed. It will appear as a conventional wikilink.
[edit] Examples
[[Category:Help]]would list this page in Category Help but[[:Category:Help]]will produce a link to Category:Help[[Image:Wikipedialogo.png]]would display an image but[[:Image:Wikipedia-logo.png]]will produce a link to Image:Wikipedia-logo.png
