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Circular redirects and our documentation

I took a stab at alleviating this (apparently) recurring frustration by editing our documentation:

Template:Interlanguage_link/doc(edit talk links history)

Take a look and feel free to improve further. CapnZapp (talk) 16:26, 23 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Standard parameter name for Wikidata IDs

At Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Standard parameter name for Wikidata IDs, I propose that we standardise on the most-used property name for Wikidata identifiers, |qid=, instead of |WD=, keeping the old name as a working alias, at least for the foreseeable future. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:42, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 01:05, 27 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support, assuming that WD is kept as an alias for a long time, say five years. Would suggest adding 'q' as an additional alias. Mathglot (talk) 04:13, 27 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Just noting I have set up a tracking category to see how large of a task this would be to change existing param use. Primefac (talk) 16:59, 27 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please respond at the original discussion, per WP:TALKFORK. – Jonesey95 (talk) 19:07, 28 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Script request

See Wikipedia:User_scripts/Requests#Interlanguage_links_converted_from_common_bad_styles _{Piotrus at Hanyang| reply here} 00:54, 26 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

possessive apostrophe s ("'s")

Not really an important problem, but:

It is common practice in Wikipedia not to include the possesive apostrophe s in the link, e.g., "[[Winston Churchill]]'s politics", not "[[Winston Churchill|Winston Churchill's]] politics", so the link appears blue and the "'s" black: "Winston Churchill's politics". However, when applied to an interlanguage link, "{{ill|Gregor Gog|de}}'s paintings" looks ugly: "Gregor Gog [de]'s paintings" – and in "{{ill|Gregor Gog|lt=Gregor Gog's|de}}" the "'s" appears blue, too: "Gregor Gog's [de] paintings".

Any ideas about that?

--Cyfal (talk) 13:52, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Either include the 's in the link as in your second example, or don't use the possessive. If it's an issue that regularly occurs and the non-possessive version won't cut it, I suppose I could sandbox some form of |ps= postscript parameter to put text between the link and the interlanguages. Primefac (talk) 13:55, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Or be amazing and solve your problem by writing the red-linked article. – Jonesey95 (talk) 00:01, 16 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]