User blog:Stu1131181/Link Shorteners

Hi. Just thought I should write about a problem resolution I have found.

Recently, I added a new section to the House Stark article, which included a quote. The original looks like this went like this:

"<…boasted of honour and glory, promised loyalty and truth, swore faith and courage. All but the Starks. Winter is Coming, said the Stark words.>"

For source, click here.

Obviously, this looks pretty bad. 6 minutes later, User:Shaneymike came up with the following variant:

"…boasted of honour and glory, promised loyalty and truth, swore faith and courage. All but the Starks. Winter is Coming, said the Stark words."

- Catelyn Stark

For source, click here.

Obviously this is much cleaner than my version, for which I thank Shaneymike. Unfortunately, it has a problem. When opening the link, the following appears:

Bad title

The requested page title contains invalid characters: "|".

Return to Main Page.

This problem can be solved if you shorten the link with an online shortener, such as bitly.com. Then, your quote looks the same:

"…boasted of honour and glory, promised loyalty and truth, swore faith and courage. All but the Starks. Winter is Coming, said the Stark words."

- Catelyn Stark

For source, click here.

But opens to the page you want. I know this could be seen as a violation of the "TV-Series only" rule, but if you look at the wording I find it suitable. Ok thanks for reading!

&mdash;Lemony Sn (talk) 19:35, July 28, 2019 (UTC)