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 === External links ===
-External links (links to other websites) are added using single square brackets {{code|<nowiki>[...]</nowiki>}}. An alternative text to display in place of the target URL can be added after the URL, but before the closing bracket.
+External links (to other websites) are added by enclosing the URL followed by a Space then the Link Text within single square brackets {{code|<nowiki>[URL LinkText]</nowiki>}}. For example, {{code|<nowiki>[https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Links MediaWiki Help - Links]</nowiki>}} appears as [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Links MediaWiki Help - Links].
+For commonly referenced sites such as the Forgotten Realms wiki, Wikipedia, or IMDB, use a premade [[:Category:External link templates|External Link Template]] for it.
 == Templates ==