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Preferred protocol for external links templates
Please note discussion, which may affect this page, at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Preferred protocol for external links templates. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits
- Having found no consensus there, I have now opened an RfC on the matter. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:30, 8 April 2016 (UTC)
Language
Any objection to this change? Nyttend (talk) 23:12, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
- ELNO gets tossed around as if it were ELNEVER. I agree that normally we should avoid foreign language links, but I'm concerned about the implications of my former statement.... --Izno (talk) 23:22, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
In-text links
I came here looking for some guideline regarding whether in-text external links are acceptable. I had always assumed they weren't and so expected to find a statement to that effect on this page, but I didn't. Is there some policy/guideline page that says anything about this subject? Everymorning (talk) 15:25, 14 April 2016 (UTC)
- Point 2 under WP:ELPOINTS. DonIago (talk) 15:30, 14 April 2016 (UTC)
- Thanks. Everymorning (talk) 15:36, 14 April 2016 (UTC)
- People still do it anyway. It says don't do it "normally" but "exceptions are rare", and then gives three examples: links to Wiktionary, Wikisource, {{external media}}. It should say "exceptions should be rare" cuz they're not really that rare, people do it -- mostly because of not knowing better, sometimes out of laziness or not caring. Drives you nuts. Wiktionary links are fine, but other than that external links don't belong in the body of the text. Herostratus (talk) 15:55, 14 April 2016 (UTC)
- Thanks. Everymorning (talk) 15:36, 14 April 2016 (UTC)