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20 Post author: diegocaleiro 16 May 2013 01:28AM

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Comment author: Prismattic 17 May 2013 01:25:34AM *  5 points [-]

The United States is actually only the 8th richest country by per capita income (PPP adjusted).

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ListofcountriesbyGDP(PPP)per_capita

(No active link because of the damn parentheses)

Comment author: Nornagest 17 May 2013 01:58:37AM *  9 points [-]

You can escape parentheses with a backslash, like so:

[Wiki link](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_\(PPP\)_per_capita)

producing:

Wiki link

(You also need to escape underscores if you want to avoid toggling italics in body text, but it's not an issue in the destination field of links.)

Comment author: elharo 17 May 2013 09:12:12AM 2 points [-]

Thanks for the correction. I will update my thinking going forward.