Help:What links here

This is an information page. It is not an encyclopedic article, nor one of Wikipedia's policies or guidelines; rather, its purpose is to explain certain aspects of Wikipedia's norms, customs, technicalities, or practices. It may reflect differing levels of consensus and vetting.

Shortcut WP:WLH

Within the Tools section at the top-right of every page (in the standard view) is a link labeled "What links here". This is used to see a list of the pages that link to (or redirect to, or transclude) the current page. These are sometimes referred to as backlinks.

It is possible to make a wikilink to the "What links here" list for a particular page; to do this type [[Special:WhatLinksHere/Page name]], replacing Page name with the title of the target page. (The same text, without the square brackets, can also be entered in the search box, to access "What links here" for any page title.)

It is also possible to list the pages with {{Special:WhatLinksHere/Page name|namespace=number}}, where Page name is the name of the page, and namespace (optional) is the number of the namespace. E.g. {{Special:WhatLinksHere/Help:What links here|namespace=0}} lists all pages from article space that link to this page.

To use the tool, click Special:WhatLinksHere and type in the page title.

"What links here" is limited to showing actual backlinks. Pages which contain the title being searched for, but where the title has not been linked, are not included in the results. An alternative script (User:Lourdes/Backlinks) exists to search for such pages, where possible unlinked backlinks may exist for the respective article.