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Is "Yoga Sutras" the name of a work or a series of works, or is it a type term? (I.e., is it like Encyclopaedia Britannica or is it like "encyclopedia article"?)

If the former, "Yoga Sutras" should be italicized: Yoga Sutras. And the link should then point to [Yoga Sutras]? as the author had it.

If the latter, "Yoga Sutras" should be lower case: "yoga sutra" or "Yoga sutra" (whichever is correct). Also, the link should be to [yoga sutra]? or [Yoga sutra]?. --LMS

A. The Yoga Sutras is the name of a work and I have italicised it. I am not however sure how to make the link as you suggest it.

--Ian

If i'm understanding this discussion correctly, the way to make a link is to enclose a word or term in double square brackets: [[ ]]. The word or term will then appear with a question mark after it. Click on it and you'll be able to create the text of the new entry, and your original word or term will be a functional link (also all other instances of that word or term on Wikipedia, if they're in double brackets.)(Apologies if I'm stating something obvious here. :-) )


Yes, you've got it. The only thing to keep in mind is that some punctuation marks (all except the period and dash, essentially) will prevent the double square brackets from working. Drop those from the name of the thing to which you are linking, and all will be well. -- Paul Drye

Commas work in links, too. That's it, though: just those three; the rest of the punctuation, including colons and apostrophes, aborts the link. --KQ


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