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July 19

Louis Maurice Young writer

I world like to add some informations available about this 90's and 2000's decade writer,his nome is Louis Maurice Young. He has an YouTube Channel, his website and many interesting topic matters available on the web. 2804:38A:A140:BBB:A969:1E0A:614F:F160 (talk) 00:54, 19 July 2024 (UTC)

Hi IP editor, If there is significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of Louis Maurice Young, then he is notable enough for Wikipedia and you can create at article about him. There's plently of information to get your started at Help:Your first article. -- D'n'B-t -- 06:46, 19 July 2024 (UTC)

Headingley

Ref number 41 is in the red. Please repair if you can. Thanks 115.70.23.77 (talk) 01:40, 19 July 2024 (UTC)

 Done Corrected access date from 20224 to 2024. ClaudineChionh (she/her · talk · contribs · email) 01:48, 19 July 2024 (UTC)

List of de-sysopped admins?

Is there a list or List of admins de-sysopped by ArbCom anywhere? AndyTheGrump (talk) 16:19, 19 July 2024 (UTC)

Here's a good place to start: Wikipedia:Former administrators/reason/for cause DanCherek (talk) 16:23, 19 July 2024 (UTC)

Just what I was looking for. Thanks. AndyTheGrump (talk) 16:35, 19 July 2024 (UTC)

Ordinance #9 Tombstone

Reading the Wikipedia article about when the ordinance #9 was rescinded it is stated that it's not know when the old ordinance was discontinued. My name is Terry McGahey anow living in Kingman Az. The old Earp ordinance as it was known ended for good in 1994. I know this because I was the driving force to end it. By the 90s and before ordinance #9 was changed to ordinance #5-5-1 but it was the same exact ordinance. I was shot at, had property destroyed and had to shoot and wound a man in self defense. Anyway, the whole story is on a blog called The American Cowboy Chronicles. To much to put here. It truly was like stepping back into the old west at that time. 65.73.92.50 (talk) 23:18, 19 July 2024 (UTC)

Hello Terry. I expect people would be interested to hear about this if you write on the talk page of the particular article - perhaps you are referring to Cochise County Cowboys#Weapon ordinance although I did not notice where that article states that it's not known when the old ordinance was discontinued. If so you might like to go to Talk:Cochise County Cowboys, click “Add topic” and let them know. In general blogs are not considered reliable sources, but there are exceptions. No doubt the people interested in the particular article will have a view on the blog you mention considering Wikipedia:Verifiability#Self-published sources Chidgk1 (talk) 09:15, 20 July 2024 (UTC)

Can't edit a certain page

I've been trying to correct the dash type on William Beauchamp Wildman. However, most of the time when I try and edit the page it simply refreshes and doesn't go to the editing page. On the rare occasion this works and I make the edits I want and click "publish changes" the changes don't happen. If anyone knows why this is happening it would be much appreciated if it could be explained and/or fixed. If someone would like to make the simple change I'm trying to make it would be very much appreciated. I'm trying to change the dash type on the page that's used between dates from the current type to the standard dash format i.e. from - to –. Helper201 (talk) 23:44, 19 July 2024 (UTC)

@Helper201:  Done. Probably some glitch. C F A 💬 03:55, 20 July 2024 (UTC)

July 20

Hydrofision/Hydrofusion Process

The term used for the process of breaking down water, by means of means of electricity obtained via renewable resources, for the purpose of storing chemical energy. The pure elements are then recombined at a later time thus enacting an entire replacement of the fossil fuel system. 174.71.248.134 (talk) 00:31, 20 July 2024 (UTC)

Maybe see Electrolysis of water?   Maproom (talk) 06:36, 20 July 2024 (UTC)

Also Fossil fuel phase-out as whilst what you say is an important part there are other aspects to consider Chidgk1 (talk) 07:59, 20 July 2024 (UTC)

And if you have time to improve the article that would be great Chidgk1 (talk) 08:06, 20 July 2024 (UTC)

Citing and archiving a pdf source?

Hello,

In Afşin-Elbistan power stations I am citing http://eced.csb.gov.tr/jsp/dosya/dosyaGoster.htm?tempAd=signature_file1152442471683518745.imz&orjinalAd=32162_Son_Sekli_Verilen_Rapor.pdf&yuklemeTarihi=2024-05-10 and I would like to get it right this time as last time I cited something from that website I kept losing it as a “dead link”. As I am busy editing the cite number may change but you can find it by searching the article for the page number 277.

Firstly am I citing it right?

Secondly (apart from downloading it to my computer which I have done) is there a way I can archive that pdf?

Thanks Chidgk1 (talk) 07:26, 20 July 2024 (UTC)

@Chidgk1: The site's not working for me right now. When it does start responding again, you can use http://web.archive.org/save to archive the PDF, then you can put that link in the archive-url parameter in the citation. C F A 💬 14:15, 20 July 2024 (UTC)

Thanks. It takes about 2 minutes to respond so I have sent an error report to the Wayback Machine as presumably that is why they are not archiving it. Perhaps that is also why the earlier one kept being flagged as a dead link. Chidgk1 (talk) 06:46, 21 July 2024 (UTC)

Account was hacked

Hello My account with email "(Redacted)" and username "Jake Muller" have been hacked and the email was changed to "(Redacted)" Here is a screenshot of the email i received from wiki when the email was changed: https://pasteboard.co/CRTA5VRAlZ9R.png

can you kindly restore it. 169.224.75.242 (talk) 08:39, 20 July 2024 (UTC)

I've redacted those email addresses; relevant people will still be able to see them. The chances are your account will be blocked or globally locked. The people responsible for recovering accounts are Trust & Safety, further details at m:Help:Compromised_accounts. Please contact Trust & Safety using the ca@ address. -- zzuuzz ^(talk) 09:37, 20 July 2024 (UTC)

Email

I have put error Email in hurry now I want to change it but it is registered please any solution 175.194.103.33 (talk) 13:50, 20 July 2024 (UTC)

You registered an account with the wrong email, and you want to change it? Do you still remember the password to the Wikipedia account? If so, login, then go here Special:Preferences and choose Password. -- Zanimum (talk) 18:06, 20 July 2024 (UTC)

Zhou Xiaochuan

I noticed that on Chinese Wikipedia it's stated that when the economist Zhou Xiaochuan was born, his parents worked in Factory No. 2 (Dongan Electrical Appliance Factory) directly under the Ministry of Northeast Military Industry in Dong'an City, in Heilongjiang Province. However, the birthplace is indicated as Yixing. It's a strange discrepancy. 87.1.243.195 (talk) 14:53, 20 July 2024 (UTC)

If you have a question about an article on the Chinese Wikipedia you need to ask there. RudolfRed (talk) 17:43, 20 July 2024 (UTC)

The appropriate place to ask is https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:%E4%BA%92%E5%8A%A9%E5%AE%A2%E6%A0%88/%E6%B1%82%E5%8A%A9 -- Zanimum (talk) 18:07, 20 July 2024 (UTC)

Not a definitive resolution, but I note that his father Zhou Jiannan was also born in Yixing. Presumably Xiaochuan's mother was given some form of maternity leave around the period of his birth; it seems not unlikely that she would have returned to the family home of either her husband or her parents (likely also in Yixing), to stay with supportive relatives pre- and post-partum. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 94.2.67.235 (talk) 10:41, 21 July 2024 (UTC)

My Article

I have been working on my page for almost 2 years and I cannot find the "move" option anywhere, it simply is not an option for me. Please help, I really want to publish this page that I've worked so hard one.I\ve watched videos and read help topics until my eyes feel sore and I just cannot find the move "from sandbox" option anywhere. Rivey791 (talk) 17:33, 20 July 2024 (UTC)

@Rivey791: Your account is not yet autoconfirmed, which is required for moving a page. If you are referring to User:Rivey791/sandbox, it has no references so it is not acceptable as an article. Please also read WP:AUTO RudolfRed (talk) 17:41, 20 July 2024 (UTC)

@Rivey791 I have added a template to your sandbox that would allow you to Submit it to the Articles for Creation process for review.

Do not submit it for review in it's current form- it is written entirely inappropriately for Wikipedia at the moment and would likely be deleted for spam.

Very carefully read our notability criteria for authors, our policy that requires all information be verified, and finally our policy on strict neutrality of writing. Your sandbox fails all three at the moment. You still have a lot of work to do.

Let me know if you have any questions. Qcne (talk) 17:49, 20 July 2024 (UTC)

@Rivey791, I've deleted your draft as blatant spam, and if you try again you must declare your obvious Conflict of interest Jimfbleak - talk to me? 12:56, 21 July 2024 (UTC)

Searching own edits

Hello, is there a way to search your edits, as opposed to just browsing? Someone's just emailed me, saying that I edited an article on their late relative, and I can't find any evidence that the article exists on Wikipedia. There's two people with the same name, but they're alive and ticking (and not something I edited.) I have 50K edits, so filtering the user contributions to article space will still be slow to search through. -- Zanimum (talk) 17:59, 20 July 2024 (UTC)

I should clarify, I only want to search through the article titles, not the edits themselves. I just am wondering whether there's anything automated before I go 500 edits at a time. Thanks! -- Zanimum (talk) 18:00, 20 July 2024 (UTC)

@Zanimum: I have not tried it, but at the top of your contributions page there should be "Search for contributions", and a down arrow. Click the arrow and it will expand a search box. RudolfRed (talk) 18:05, 20 July 2024 (UTC)

If it's the list of pages that you edited; it's in your XTools page. Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 18:28, 20 July 2024 (UTC)

When should a personal connection to article subject be declared?

I find it difficult to determine when a personal connection to an article subject should be declared with {{Connected contributor}} or otherwise. From reading through Wikipedia:Conflict of interest and Wikipedia:Plain and simple conflict of interest guide it becomes clear that editors with a financial interest should always declare their connection. Beyond that, I understand that common sense should be applied, which doesn't really help in answering the question: When should a personal connection to an article subject be declared? In a discussion about an article on a single-day athletics event, another editor declared working as an unpaid volunteer judge for this event, but didn't think that this personal connection merits a declaration on the article's talk page. So I was looking for information to better understand and determine the line between connections and interests that should be declared and ones that don't have to be. Can someone help me with that? – Editør (talk) 19:29, 20 July 2024 (UTC)

If I were editing a Wikipedia article about an event for which I'd been an unpaid volunteer judge, I'd definitely declare it. Whyever not? Maybe no-one will care. But I prefer to be open and honest. Maproom (talk) 22:03, 20 July 2024 (UTC)

Editør, more disclosure is better than less disclosure. Nobody will criticize you for "over-disclosing" minor conflicts of interest, but some editors have been harshly criticized or even blocked for failing to disclose. Cullen328 (talk) 08:48, 21 July 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for your replies. – Editør (talk) 11:50, 21 July 2024 (UTC)

LMSTA Template Problem: I added this student to a List of Music Students article, but the name won't go to the next bullet point on the list.

Here is the name and the situation, along with the link to the article:

• Rolf C. Scheurer [pupils]Rudolph Schirmer [pupils] (1918–2006)

List of music students by teacher: R to S - Wikipedia Starlighsky (talk) 20:20, 20 July 2024 (UTC)

In this edit, you appear to have put the * inside the template {{LMSTA|Rolf C.|Scheurer|no*}} instead of outside it. ColinFine (talk) 21:07, 20 July 2024 (UTC)

I will work on this, but only have access to the template. How do I put it outside? Starlighsky (talk) 21:11, 20 July 2024 (UTC)

I fixed it out to source code edit.

Thank you for the information on how to fix it. It is definitely, greatly appreciated because I could not figure it out in visual edit. Starlighsky (talk) 21:27, 20 July 2024 (UTC)

Dark mode issues

In dark mode, at {{Soulfly}}, the actual link for Soulfly is an extremely dark grey that is difficult to see on a black background. Also, when editing, anything that is NOT a link is grey text on a white background. It was not this way before. Does anyone know how to fix this? --Jax 0677 (talk) 22:05, 20 July 2024 (UTC)

@Jax 0677, while you wait for a good answer here, have you checked out this Pump tech thread? It does have sections related to dark text on dark backgrounds. I don't use dark mode so can't assist further. Commander Keane (talk) 04:56, 21 July 2024 (UTC)

• Reply - @Commander Keane:, thanks! --Jax 0677 (talk) 21:34, 21 July 2024 (UTC)

I use dark mode but I cannot reproduce the problem - looks fine to me Chidgk1 (talk) 06:49, 21 July 2024 (UTC)

• Reply - I went to Keane's archived post, and someone else had the same problem. --Jax 0677 (talk) 21:41, 21 July 2024 (UTC)

July 21

How can I get the what links here to update for a page

How can I get the pagelinks table for Help:What links here to update? I have waited a few days for it to update but it still has not done so. Is there anyway to force it to update? The article in question is Unreal Engine. See https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:WhatLinksHere/Unreal_Engine&limit=500. I need to see what actually links to it as a lot of the links to it are not formatted correctly. Eg. they are of the form [[Unreal Engine|Unreal Engine 2]] or [[Unreal Engine#Unreal Engine 2|Unreal Engine 2]] instead of [[Unreal Engine 2]]. The issue is a lot of the pages in that category do not link to Unreal Engine at all, yet are still shown as linking to it. This seems to be because [[Unreal Engine 3]] etc. used to be a redirect to Unreal Engine but now they have their own page. There are also pages that do not link to Unreal Engine at all but are still in the "what links here page" such as Infinity Blade: Redemption. Skip the first few hundred links in WhatLinksHere/Unreal_Engine if you look at it as those are real links to it. J2UDY7r00CRjH (talk) 03:40, 21 July 2024 (UTC)

Did you try purging the cache – https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:WhatLinksHere/Unreal_Engine&limit=500&action=purge Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 05:56, 21 July 2024 (UTC)

I just tried. It doesn't seem to do anything. Clicking the link you sent or pasting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Unreal_Engine into https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Purge doesn't seem to do anything. I also tried purging https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unreal_Engine and that doesn't seem to do anything either. J2UDY7r00CRjH (talk) 06:39, 21 July 2024 (UTC)

I'm trying https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ahecht/Scripts/refresh now J2UDY7r00CRjH (talk) 06:56, 21 July 2024 (UTC)

It seems to run into issues when one of the pages is protected and then crashes. Not sure how to solve this issue. J2UDY7r00CRjH (talk) 07:09, 21 July 2024 (UTC)

@J2UDY7r00CRjH, I am not 100% sure but I think Infinity Blade: Redemption is in the whatlinkshere as the template {{Epic}} links to Unreal Engine. No amount of purging can change that. Commander Keane (talk) 07:38, 21 July 2024 (UTC)

Ah, thanks for pointing that out. I am manually going through all 1,500 links now. It seems most of the issues are from using [[Unreal Engine|Unreal Engine 2]] or [[Unreal Engine#Unreal Engine 2|Unreal Engine 2]] instead of [[Unreal Engine 2]] and I'm not sure how to find this usage automatically. J2UDY7r00CRjH (talk) 07:41, 21 July 2024 (UTC)

Help:What_links_here#Workaround_to_hide_transcluded_links may help you. Commander Keane (talk) 07:59, 21 July 2024 (UTC)

How to find wikilink usage in search engine?

How can I find links of the form [[Unreal Engine|Unreal Engine 2]] or [[Unreal Engine#Unreal Engine 2|Unreal Engine 2]]? I can't just search for "Unreal Engine 2" as that will also return results for [[Unreal Engine 2]], which I am looking to exclude from the results. It seems the search engine does not look at wiki markup language and only looks at the formatted prose on the screen. Is there an way to solve this? J2UDY7r00CRjH (talk) 07:46, 21 July 2024 (UTC)

@J2UDY7r00CRjH, per my link directly above, does searching for insource:/\[\[[Uu]nreal_Engine/ in the search box help? Commander Keane (talk) 08:05, 21 July 2024 (UTC)

Yes. I am using that now. It seems to work very well. Thanks! J2UDY7r00CRjH (talk) 08:06, 21 July 2024 (UTC)

@J2UDY7r00CRjH: insource:"Unreal Engine Unreal Engine 2" finds both your examples. insource:/.../ is more expensive on the servers. PrimeHunter (talk) 10:04, 21 July 2024 (UTC)

Interwiki page existence check

Is there a local way to check if a page exists from another wiki? It would help me for a template I'm working on. "#ifexist:" and all existing templates I could find don't support interwiki checks. JoeJShmo^💌 08:21, 21 July 2024 (UTC)

related question: is there any way of checking if a specific section exists within a given article? JoeJShmo^💌 08:28, 21 July 2024 (UTC)

@JoeJShmo: You cannot check whether a page exists at another wiki. In order to test whether a section exists in a local page you would have to read the whole page and try to search it for the section header code. I haven't heard of anyone doing this. I doubt any purpose is worth the cost. PrimeHunter (talk) 09:42, 21 July 2024 (UTC)

@JoeJShmo If I wanted to find out if an article existed anywhere, I'd do a search within Wikidata for the expected title. I could use its standard search box to find the entry at Q210385= Πυριδίνη, for example, which corresponds to our pyridine. Is that the sort of search you had in mind for your template? Mike Turnbull (talk) 13:54, 21 July 2024 (UTC)

I'm pretty new to making templates so I don't know much coding atm. If I wanted my template to determine if a specific article exists, you're saying there's a search function I could use? Do you mind linking that function's documentation page? JoeJShmo^💌 18:53, 21 July 2024 (UTC)

If you are looking for a page on a specific wikipedia you might use {{sitelink}}. For example, the Korean version of this page (according to wikidata) is:

{{sitelink|lang=ko}} → 위키백과:질문방

—Trappist the monk (talk) 19:10, 21 July 2024 (UTC)

Unfortunate sitelink doesn't work to check if a specific page exists from another wiki (like wikisource) or to check for specific sections. JoeJShmo^💌 22:56, 21 July 2024 (UTC)

Checking for specific sections on another wiki is not possible because we can't fetch the article contents from 'there' for analysis 'here'.

It is possible to fetch a list of other language and other project site links from wikidata. For example, this snippet of code run in the lua debug console returns a lua table of sitelinks for Jane Austin's Sense and Sensibility (Sense and Sensibility (Q274744)). If you go to that wikidata page, you will see that fr.wikisource is one of many sitelinks and the only wikisource sitelink. Here is the snippet:

=mw.dumpObject (mw.wikibase.getEntity ('Q274744')["sitelinks"]) returns (in part):

table#1 {
        metatable = table#2
    ["afwiki"] = table#3 {
        ["badges"] = table#4 {
        },
        ["site"] = "afwiki",
        ["title"] = "Sense and Sensibility",
    },
    ...
    ["frwikisource"] = table#45 {
        ["badges"] = table#46 {
        },
        ["site"] = "frwikisource",
        ["title"] = "Raison et Sentiments",
    },
}

A sufficiently clever template/module can extract meaning from that. So far as I know, there isn't a template that fetches sitelinks so it needs be written.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 00:27, 22 July 2024 (UTC)

Looks clever, hopefully someone makes a template utilizing that someday. I was trying to check if a specific page exists under a given author on wikisource, and it looks like that isn't listed on wikidata regardless (just the author page itself is listed). As for the sections, that was something I wanted to check locally, to see if a given section exists in a given Wikipedia article. Perhaps there is a way to do that? I was just looking through the doc page of #invoke:WikidataIB and it looks like it can be done by scanning the page, though I'd appreciate if you can guide me on how to go about doing that efficiently (or perhaps there's a template?) JoeJShmo^💌 01:50, 22 July 2024 (UTC)

Module:String2 § findpagetext

{{#invoke:String2|findpagetext|Interwiki page existence check}} → 23621

—Trappist the monk (talk) 02:26, 22 July 2024 (UTC)

Can’t read CAPTCHA

I couldn’t read the CAPTCHA wen signing up to make an article Welolo (talk) 09:24, 21 July 2024 (UTC)

Your account works. Otherwise you couldn't make this post as User:Welolo. If you still have a problem then please clarify it. PrimeHunter (talk) 09:35, 21 July 2024 (UTC)

Question about sock votes

I came across a !vote on a discussion page, and, while it didn't affect the consensus of the vote, the specific user has been blocked as a sockpuppet. Should the vote be kept, deleted, or struck-through? GeorgeMemulous (talk) 14:40, 21 July 2024 (UTC)

@GeorgeMemulous Per WP:SOCKSTRIKE, striking seems reasonable. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 16:24, 21 July 2024 (UTC)

Why is the far east of my map being chopped off?

I don’t see the whole country in List of active coal-fired power stations in Turkey but on tr:Türkiye'deki kömür yakıtlı elektrik santralleri listesi I do even though they are both “width = 1000”. What am I missing? Chidgk1 (talk) 17:07, 21 July 2024 (UTC)

Chidgk1, which skin are you using? I see all of the map on both the en.wp and tr.wp articles in both Minerva and Vector 2022, although in Minerva I do have to perform a sidey-scroll to view the eastern half of the map. Folly Mox (talk) 20:29, 21 July 2024 (UTC)

@Folly Mox Thanks - as long as readers can see it ok that is the main thing. I use Vector 2022 skin on both en and tr. Pretty sure the map was right when I first created it a long time ago otherwise I would have noticed. I wonder if there might be some way I could backup or save all my user customisations then reset everything to defaults? Actually I don’t think I have too much non-standard stuff so happy to reset everything to defaults even if I risk losing something. Is there an easy way to reset a user do you know? Chidgk1 (talk) 06:33, 22 July 2024 (UTC)

Ah I see now I can side scroll Chidgk1 (talk) 06:40, 22 July 2024 (UTC)

Colors in tables not working

When I use my phone or my laptop (windows 10, google chrome) and I look at racing series results (specifically formula 1 but really any of them) the tables have beautiful colors that quickly show the results. On this computer, (windows 11, not that that should matter) the results all have the same color. The table colors seemingly are not working on this computer. How fix. WannaSprite420 (talk) 17:13, 21 July 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia app consumed 6.8GB of data

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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Apologies if this is not the right place for my query. While using the Wikipedia app on iOS with a 4G connection, I received a notification from my provider stating I had only 5GB left in my data package. Eight minutes later, I received another message saying my data package was completely used up. Upon checking my cellular usage settings, I found that the Wikipedia app had consumed 6.8GB of data in just about 10 minutes. What could be the cause of this? 178.241.88.53 (talk) 18:56, 21 July 2024 (UTC)

Hi there,

This is definitely not the place for this query, as you realized. While this issue is very interesting, we cannot deal with these kinds of issues. Our job is to answer your questions about how to edit Wikipedia. I'm pretty sure the best place to bring this issue up is at WP:TECHPUMP. I personally have no clue what could've caused this.

Warm regards,

Avishai

@Avishai11

Avishai11 (talk) 22:48, 21 July 2024 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Quick review of Allbirds

Hello Wikipedians. I recently finished fleshing out the page Allbirds as much as I can stomach. I think for the most part it is okay, but I can no longer tell what parts of my writing are good or bad and would appreciate it if someone could quickly dust it off.

Additionally, I would appreciate direction to where in WikiProject Law I would go if I wanted their assistance with the litigation section before I submit this for GA review. Let me know if this is the wrong place for that. Ornov Ganguly TALK 22:19, 21 July 2024 (UTC)

@Oganguly: To ask for help from a wikiproject, use that project's talk page, such as Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Law RudolfRed (talk) 00:41, 22 July 2024 (UTC)

Also Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Requests although it might be a few weeks before one of them has time Chidgk1 (talk) 06:38, 22 July 2024 (UTC)

July 22

Direct linking to other language wikis

Hello. I'd like to ask, if it is accepted practice to directly link articles in other language wikis from English Wikipedia. For example in 2024–25 Women's Floorball Champions Cup, great deal of links point directly to articles at Czech, German, Swedish and Finnish wikis. I haven't seen this practice in other English wikipedia articles. Except for links using Template:ill, which clearly mark the link as pointing to other language. I've asked the author of the article. But from his/hers response, it rather seems like this was his/hers deliberate choice rather than a practice based on an accepted norm. I find this quite confusing, when I land on a completely different languages after clicking a link. Thanks. Prikryl (talk) 08:30, 22 July 2024 (UTC)

As you may have seen already, WP:ILL says The best practice is to use the template {{interlanguage link}} (my emphasis), but I don't see anywhere that actually forbids linking directly to a foreign-language article, and Help:Link actually has some examples of it.

I agree that a direct link to a foreign-language article is not desirable, according to the principle of least surprise. ColinFine (talk) 09:02, 22 July 2024 (UTC)

Another advantage of using the interlanguage link template is that it can create a WP:REDLINK, which is helpful in identifying missing articles that we may wish to create (or, in this case, translate from other language wikis). -- Cl3phact0 (talk) 09:32, 22 July 2024 (UTC)