A little more context is needed is this a public wiki? is the template in a
ref tag? have you tried using just the user link creation by itself  (in
case other template markup is breaking it)?

On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 3:41 PM, Emanuele D'Arrigo <man...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I've been having difficulties assembling internal links within templates.
>
> A standard link such as [[User:Alice|Alice]] works just fine. But if I try
> to do something like:
>
> [[User:{{{user|Unknown}}}|{{{user|Unknown}}}]]
>
> I get the content of the parameter "user" to appear, but it won't be a
> link.
> Similarly, I tried to use
>
> [[User:{{safesubst:REVISIONUSER}}|{{safesubst:REVISIONUSER}}]]
>
> to provide a link to the user who added the template, but it doesn't seem
> to work either, no matter which combinations of <includeonly> tags I try.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Manu
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