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===Method 4: changing a URL===

If you click edit, on any existing page or page section and then change the title of the page shown in the [[URL]] of your browser's address bar to the name of a non-existent page, and then hit return/enter, the resulting page shown will be the same as if you clicked on a red link, allowing you to create a page by the title entered. For example, were you to click edit at the top of this page, you would see this URL in your browser's address bar:

:<small>{{mono|{{xt|<nowiki>https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=</nowiki>}}{{!xt|Wikipedia:How_to_create_a_page}}{{xt|<nowiki>&action=edit</nowiki>}}}}</small>

To make a page called "Proposed Title" using it, you would change it to:

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===File namespace exception===

The file namespace is another exception in that media files are not created directly by any of the methods discussed above. Rather, media files are ''uploaded'', which is done through a separate and dedicated interface, accessed by clicking on "Upload file" from the tool menu on the left of a page. (Please note that media files that are in the [[public ___domain]] or which bear a free copyright license [[WP:COMPLIC|compatible]] with the free licenses borne by Wikipedia's content should generally be uploaded to the [[Commons:|Wikimedia Commons]] rather than to [[Wikipedia]], so that all Wikimedia projects have access to the media file.)

===Restricted namespaces===