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Most work names should then be put italics markup (two single quotes/apostrophes before and after the link markup). There are exceptions to this -- short stories, individual songs, and other short-format works get double quotes instead of italics -- but in general italics are a safe choice.
 
Sometimes you might think it's necessary (or more attractive) to use a pothole with a work name. For instance, the ''[[HarryThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the PotterGalaxy]]'' novels are all described on subpages under [[HarryThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the PotterGalaxy]], like ''[[HarryThe PotterHitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy/HarrySo PotterLong, andAnd TheThanks Philosopher'sFor All The StoneFish]]''; potholing that link to ''[[HarryThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the PotterGalaxy/HarrySo PotterLong, andAnd TheThanks Philosopher'sFor StoneAll The Fish|HarrySo PotterLong, andAnd TheThanks Philosopher'sFor All The StoneFish]]'' just looks better. Go ahead and do that. Just be careful not to misspell or otherwise mangle the work name in the pothole. And if you're not sure how to code a pothole, the markup is <code><nowiki>[[link|pothole text]]</nowiki></code> -- the link, a vertical bar, and then the text you want to have go to that link.
 
Again, [[Pothole]]s are good, while [[sinkhole]]s are bad. Potholes and Sinkholes where different parts of ''the same word'' link to different pages are horrid - there's no way for a casual reader to know (or even suspect) that there's more than one link in the word. Unless you happen to take advantage of the wiki's color-coded internal links, but then it looks [[It Gets Worse|rid]][[From Bad to Worse|icul]][[It Got Worse|ous.]] It's also an [http://blogaccessibility.com/sin-2-of-inaccessible-blogs-using-consecutive-one-worded-links/ accessibility sin].
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