ave the pipe character for cases where the link name & display name are completely different. how about reversing: }{ so it's always anything that's on the "belly" side of a { or } thats hidden

+ put on the [[One }Ring{]] = put on the [[One Ring|Ring]] Shown as: put on the _Ring_

+ called [[George }W{. Bush]] = called [[George W. Bush|W]] during the campaign Shows as: called _W_ during the campaign

Poor, Edmund W wrote:

I agree with using curly braces to hide part a link:

• put on the [[{One }Ring]]

= put on the [[One Ring|Ring]] Shown as: put on the _Ring_

We could also use a second pipe character to delineate what we DO WANT TO SHOW, as follows:

• bought an [[|English| language]] textbook

= bought an [[English language|English]] textbook Shown as: bought an _English_ textbook

• put on the [[One |Ring|]]

= put on the [[One Ring|Ring]] Shown as: put on the _Ring_

• called [[George |W|. Bush]]

= called [[George W. Bush|W]] during the campaign Shows as: called _W_ during the campaign

What do you all think?

Ed Poor

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I'd vote for the double straight line because it's already used in links, and people are used to it. It's not hard to surround the characters you want to show up. A normal bracket is already used in disambiguation headers, so we don't want to use that, and the addition of other brackets is extra confusing.

+ bought an [[|English| language]] textbook = bought an [[English language|English]] textbook Shown as: bought an _English_ textbook