Help:Permanent link

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A permanent link (or permalink) is a link to a specific version of a Wikipedia page. Normal internal links always lead to the current version of a page, but the permalink leads to the text as it was at that point in time; the text does not include any edits made since. Unlike what the name suggests, the permalink does not show exactly the same page, though; only the main text is guaranteed to be retained. Certain elements still update dynamically like pictures,^[1] templates such as infoboxes with text and images placed in the page's right-top corner, as well as any content transcluded from other pages. In other words, the permalink displays what the article would look like today if someone reverted to the revision in question.

A permalink can be made by clicking 'Permanent link' in the sidebar's toolbox or by accessing a prior revision of a page from its page history tab. Both of these will display that version and the page's URL can be used as the target of the permalink.