How can I set a bookmark and its link in a profile?

Question

In editing the profile for Rev James Keith, I've set up two paragraph of text, quoted as source material in the original profile, to be refuted in the revised/amended profile.  I want to set a word/phrase in the text as a link to its refutation in a bookmark set below the quoted text.

How can I set a bookmark and its link in a WikiTree profile as I can in Word?

Or can you describe a more clear or efficient way to format phrase-by-phrase refutation of claims made in the source text?  There will be 7 such refutations so there would be a lot of aimless scrolling without linked bookmarks.

Thanks for advice/guidance, Gail

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Not sure if this is exactly what you need but you can include a link to a web page by enclosing the url between [ and ].  You can place descriptive text at the end of the url (before the ]) so what you will see in the public version of the profile is something like "John was born in [birth location] not in [incorrect location]" instead of "John was born in [1] not in [2]."

In the edit version it would look like [http://urlgobbledegook Wiliamsburg] and in the text you end up with a live link that just says Williamsburg

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Here's how it works in a Word.docx.  How can I make it work in a WikiTree profile?

"[James Keith, born in 1697]¹, [was the son of a professor at Marischal College in Aberdeen]².(29) Most of the Keiths, however, were soldiers: a military family whose lineal descendants bore the title Earl Marischal and who traced their roots to ancient Scottish and Saxon kings. Their soldierly exploits won wide renown and were celebrated in song and legend. . . .

. . .

Claim ^[1]: xxx

Refutation ^[1]:

Claim ^[2]: yyy

Refutation ^[2]:

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Word formatting doesn’t translate to Wikitree formatting so you have to just enter plain text in Word and then copy to Wikitree and add the Wikitree formatting.  

To get your “James Keith, born in 1697” to show up with the live link to the reference you’ll need to type

James Keith <ref> citation here [link url here born in 1687] </ref>  Was the son of <ref> citation here [link url a professor at Marischal College] </ref>

The ref /ref tags generate the footnote, the text with the brackets after the url generates the live link on the text.  

If you are using the same reference repeatedly you can add code to name the source so that you only have to enter the full citation once and then refer to it by the name you’ve created.  The source Help pages explain that formatting.  

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Sources#Advanced_Sourcing

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Thanks, but that way the refutation will be listed in the list of sources, not as an argument under the quoted text where I want it seen.

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I guess I'm not understanding how you want it to look.  I was thinking you wanted something like this example from the profile of John Adair.  https://www.wikitree.com/Adair-458 You do need to separate the link from the ref tags to get both a live link and a link to the reference.

"John died in 1815; his Will [5] said in part:"

here is the text that generated the above:

John died in 1815; his  [https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/23221-cherokee-family-researcher-no-15-summer-1996?viewer=1&offset=0#page=21&viewer=picture&o=info&n=0&q=Adair Will]  <ref> transcribed at ''Cherokee Family Researcher,'' #15 (Summer 1996), p. 19-20. FamilySearch.</ref> said in part:

Answer 1

The bookmark in Word allows you to jump to a specific place on a page that you defined.

In HTML use we call these page anchors, and it is how the Table of Contents on a profile are created here on WikiTree.

So you can use this to your benefit. For example, if you have a header:

=== My Bookmark ===

You can then link to that specific section, from the same page, using:

[[#My_Bookmark|See this Section]]

If you want to link to that specific section from another page, you just include the page name, such as:

[[Harris-5439#Digital_Afterlife|Steve's Digital Afterlife Declaration]]

Which gives you this: Steve's Digital Afterlife Declaration

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Thank you, Steve,  This looks like ti would work exactly as I want it to.  I'll give it a try tomorow.

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You might want to make the header size smaller than level 3, though.  I believe the code goes to level 5, which is not too intrusive at all.

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At the section "(to-be) Refuted Source Material" on Keith's profile (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Keith-694), my inserting [[#Claim1|born in 1697]] in the first sentence properly results in “James Keith, born in 1697, . . .” but clicking on that marked text does not go to “Claim1," written several paragraphs below.

Does linking work only if the anchor/bookmark is a section head or subhead?  Do I need to format "Claim1" to define it as the link target?

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@Gail - the "Claim1" is not provided as a header as shown in my example above. You can not link to arbitrary text that is not defined.

Take a look at the TOC on James' profile. Each of the TOC links has a page anchor. If you click on "1 Biography", the URL changes to: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Keith-694#Biography

If you click on 2.2 Birth Date, the URL changes to https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Keith-694#Birth_Date.

In order to link to "Claim1", it needs to be a header entry (surrounded by equal signs). I have made this change to the profile, please review.

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Perfect!  Thanks for showing me the way, much appreciated.  I should be able to the get the rest in later today.