Help with formatting links & plain text

[echoes]

i'm fairly green to wiki editing, so please bear with me. i've read the wiki documentation as well as templates but i can't seem to find a solution to this. maybe i'm over-complicating it.

i want to place a link to an episode with plain text following it, such as this:

link to episode (plain text in parentheses), another link to another episode (more text in parentheses), and so on.

how do i achieve this with wiki syntax?

[GrnMarvl14]

Are you wanting a link, then plain text, or the link AS text? I.e., are you wanting:

http://www.marvel.com Marvel.com

Or:

Marvel.com?

If it's the first one, and you're linking within the Wiki itself:

[[page name]] text

From outside the Wiki:

[link] text (though I seem to remember this one always looking wrong, with the link usually ending up becoming a reference number)

If it's the link AS text:

From within the Wiki:

[[page name|text]]

From outside the Wiki:

[link text]

[echoes]

funny thing is, i know how to do all that with html & bbcode, but i'm somewhat of a noob with wiki editing. (i've only done editing that hasn't really required formatting).

i thought i explained it, but option #2 with plain text following is what i am looking for, but i want multiple items in a line. the problem is the result is brackets showing instead of being hidden (this is how it was when i found it, i am trying to fix it):

code:
[[Spider-Man: The Animated Series|Night of the Lizard]] (as Eddie Brock) [[Spider-Man: The Animated Series|The Alien Costume, Part Two]] (partially seen as Venom) [[Spider-Man: The Animated Series|The Alien Costume, Part Three]] (fully seen as Venom)

result:
[[Night of the Lizard (as Eddie Brock) The Alien Costume, Part Two (partially seen as Venom) The Alien Costume, Part Three (fully seen as Venom)]]

links in blue
plain text in red

[GrnMarvl14]

Don't worry, we've all been new at this. Hell, I've been doing this for years and I STILL ask simple questions that everyone knows the answer to but me every six months.

But I think I know you're problem. You're trying to do that in the first appearance section of a character template, right? If so, the reason it's still showing is because that area is set up to auto-link comics, which can, occasionally, cause issues with non-comics. What it's doing is automatically adding the brackets to your input as it would a comic. I honestly don't know how to fix that (I know there IS a way, though). Sorry that that's not exactly helpful, but I'm sure one of the people better versed at this than me will come along before too long and solve things.

[echoes]

You're trying to do that in the first appearance section of a character template, right?

yes.

If so, the reason it's still showing is because that area is set up to auto-link comics, which can, occasionally, cause issues with non-comics. What it's doing is automatically adding the brackets to your input as it would a comic. I honestly don't know how to fix that (I know there IS a way, though). Sorry that that's not exactly helpful, but I'm sure one of the people better versed at this than me will come along before too long and solve things.

ah-ha! i knew there was something fishy about that. i was wondering why brackets kept showing up even though i hadn't typed them, i was beginning to think there was a gremlin in the wiki! i was aware of the auto-linking to comics feature but the end result confused/still confuses me.

oh, and don't apologize. you just saved me some time and frustration by telling me there is a solution, even if you don't know it. i'll just wait for someone that knows to respond.

btw, thanks for the help.

EDIT/UPDATE:
to clarify: i tried to find a page that had links & plain text in the first appearance field. i happen to come across apocalypse's (earth-616) article. the first appearance field IS displayed/formatted correctly there. the only difference in the code i can tell is that apocalypse's contains a "comic:" prefix in the link. if this is the "auto-link to comics" you menionted, then it would seem that it is predisposed/biased to comics and no other types of articles.
which leads me back to wishing i knew the workaround, if there really is one...

[m1shawhan]

I think I get what you are trying to accomplish, but what page are you editing that is not allowing this? Can you post a link to it here and we can check out the template that it is using. I know when we did the character and comic templates we coded a LOT of background coding to get those links available, but it CAN be done. Just might take a moment or two to get it. From what I gathered, it seemed to be in the episode or film template anyhow and that one has not been as *ahem* kept up as the rest.

[echoes]

I think I get what you are trying to accomplish, but what page are you editing that is not allowing this? Can you post a link to it here and we can check out the template that it is using. I know when we did the character and comic templates we coded a LOT of background coding to get those links available, but it CAN be done. Just might take a moment or two to get it. From what I gathered, it seemed to be in the episode or film template anyhow and that one has not been as *ahem* kept up as the rest.

Here:
http://marvel.wikia.com/Edward_Brock_(Earth-194111)

[m1shawhan]

Here's the link... http://marvel.wikia.com/Edward_Brock_(Earth-194111)

I made a couple of changes to the template. I had forgotten that we assumed all first appearances of a character were comics. We did plan for the remaining part of having the parentheses for noted appearances "(as so-and-so) [[link]] (then as so-and-so)". We decided to use the First2 = section. I changed it (a little) to allow for non-comic appearances (for the first appearance at least...)

What you'll want to do is add the information for these 'non-comic appearance' characters to put ALL the appearance info in the First2 = section. I made this change on the page and you can see the differences I made, on this link here. I also linked directly to the episodes, but you can change it back to the main series page if wanted/needed.

Let me know if you find any problems from my change on other pages too..........

[echoes]

why would i want to change it? that is much more descriptive and happens to be exactly what i was trying to do in the first place.

thanks m1shawhan.