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	In some cases, like pluralizing links, it's completely unnecessary. For example: <code><nowiki>[[Trope]]s</nowiki></code> is a perfectly valid and legal construction (and we ''recommend'' it in several help pages), and produces a link like this: [[Trope]]s. Putting a spurious ~~<nowiki>~~<code><nowiki/></code~~></nowiki~~> between the link and the "s" does absolutely ''nothing'' but make you type more and require an admin to edit the page to remove it.		In some cases, like pluralizing links, it's completely unnecessary. For example: <code><nowiki>[[Trope]]s</nowiki></code> is a perfectly valid and legal construction (and we ''recommend'' it in several help pages), and produces a link like this: [[Trope]]s. Putting a spurious <code><nowiki/></code> between the link and the "s" does absolutely ''nothing'' but make you type more and require an admin to edit the page to remove it.

	Similarly, don't use the nowiki markup to "escape" an apostrophe when you want to keep it from inadvertently causing a boldface markup. We have a template, {{tl\|'}}, which does that in fewer characters: <code><nowiki>''[[Titanic]]''{{'}}s script</nowiki></code>, which produces: ''[[Titanic]]''{{'}}s script.		Similarly, don't use the nowiki markup to "escape" an apostrophe when you want to keep it from inadvertently causing a boldface markup. We have a template, {{tl\|'}}, which does that in fewer characters: <code><nowiki>''[[Titanic]]''{{'}}s script</nowiki></code>, which produces: ''[[Titanic]]''{{'}}s script.