On Wikipedia, hidden text is text that is visible when editing the source for the page or when using VisualEditor, but not on the rendered version of the page presented to readers of the article.
This guideline is a part of the English Wikipedia's Manual of Style. It is a generally accepted standard that editors should attempt to follow, though it is best treated with common sense, and occasional exceptions may apply. Any substantive edit to this page should reflect consensus. When in doubt, discuss first on the talk page. |
This page in a nutshell: Hidden text, that is visible only when editing, can be inserted into articles, project pages, and other Wikipedia pages, by surrounding the text as follows:
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Invisible comments are useful for alerting other editors to issues such as common mistakes that regularly occur in the article, a section title's being the target of an incoming link, or pointing to a discussion that established a consensus relating to the article. They should not be used to instruct other editors not to perform certain edits, although where existing local consensus is against making such an edit, they may usefully draw the editor's attention to that. Avoid adding too many invisible comments because they can clutter the wiki source for other editors.
(bots do this, see MOS:RENAMESECTION)
Some situations where hidden text is useful and good to have in articles:
on categories being discussed at Wiki: Categories for discussion
Types of hidden text that should not be added include:
Enter and replace the word "Comment" with the hidden text you desire. Example (and note that line breaks in the comment itself do not show up in the rendered page):
The clock tower was constructed in 1928,<ref name="historicalsociety"/> and while it was struck by lightning in November 1955,<ref name="picayune"/> it remained functional until 1987, when its face was permanently damaged in a fight between a high school student and an immortal vampire.<ref name="araki"/>
This will render as:
The clock tower was constructed in 1928,[1] and while it was struck by lightning in November 1955,[2] it remained functional until 1987, when its face was permanently damaged in a fight between a high school student and an immortal vampire.[3]
Check that your invisible comment does not upset the article's formatting, for example by introducing unwanted white space.
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