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This template provides an easy way to link to wiki users.

To link to a wiki user, you can't just use <code><nowiki>[[Thumper]]</nowiki></code>, because that links to the page "Thumper" in the ''main'' namespace, not the user namespace.
To link to "Thumper" in the ''user'' namespace, you have to do <code><nowiki>[[User:Thumper]]</nowiki></code>.
Unfortunately, that produces the following, rather ugly, result: [[User:Thumper]].
To get a clean link, you would have to do: <code><nowiki>[[User:Thumper|Thumper]]</nowiki></code>.
That will give you what you probably want: [[User:Thumper|Thumper]].

But that's rather complicated, hard to remember, and easy to screw up.
Hence, this template, which allows you to do just {{tlx|user|Thumper}}, and it generates: {{user|Thumper}}.

== Usage ==

To link to any user, just use:

<pre>{{user|<user>}}</pre>

Where <tt><nowiki><user></nowiki></tt> is the user's wiki name.

If the user's page does not exist (or if you use a non-existent user name), you'll get a red link.

=== Alternate link text ===

Sometimes you want to link to a user, but you don't actually want the link text to be the user's name.
This template has a second, optional parameter that allows you to do that.

For example, you can write {{tlx|user|Thumper|a link to the wiki's resident super genius}}, and it will produce {{user|Thumper|a link to the wiki's resident super genius}}.
If you check that link, you will see it takes you to Thumper's user page.

=== Examples ===

{| class="wikitable"
! Code
! Result
|-
|{{tlx|user|Thumper}}
|{{user|Thumper}}
|-
|{{tlx|user|Cyclops}}
|{{user|Cyclops}}
|-
|{{tlx|user|Thumper|link text (the link will go to Thumper's user page)}}
|{{user|Thumper|link text (the link will go to Thumper's user page)}}
|}

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