Wikipedia:Please use fullurl

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This is an essay; it contains the advice and/or opinions of one or more Wikipedia contributors. It is not a policy or guideline, and editors are not obliged to follow it.

When linking to diffs, logs, etc, please use the {{fullurl}} parser function. Including the entire URL causes the diffs of the page it is included in to widen the page substantially.

Examples

[{{fullurl:Wikipedia:Please use fullurl|action=edit}}]

Links to edit this page: [1]

[{{fullurl:Special:Log|type=block&page=User:Jimbo_Wales}}]

Links to Jimbo's block log. [2]

[{{fullurl:Wikipedia:Please use fullurl|oldid=149010132&diff=prev}}]

Link to the last edit of this page. [3]

This can be used as any URL, with text, or as a bare URL, in addition to as a [N] link as shown above.