Template:User link/doc

Usage
This template provides a way to link to a userpage and display just the username, like Example. This may not help much for a short username like "Example", but it can be more useful with long usernames such as Guywhositsbehindphilip12.

Example


or the shortcut form

gives

The template's second parameter, which is optional, takes the link's label; for example, a link to the long username used above can be shortened while viewing the text like this:

which gives

Alternative
The desired result can also be achieved using the pipe trick feature of the MediaWiki software. For example, the wikitext
 * User:Example

gives
 * Example