Help talk:Link

Don't suggest MOS:FORCELINK

§ Using a redirect as alternative suggests using the target of a link to convey additional information – invisible in the main text, but available to an interested reader. This contradicts MOS:NOFORCELINK and is not accessible. For abbreviations, {{abbr}} or {{abbrlink}} are appropriate. For non-abbreviations, MOS:NOHOVER discourages tooltips; instead, use H:NOTES.

I propose that the page should either:

• discourage "hiding info in links" and explain these accessibility considerations
• since this is a technical article, neutrally discuss the possibility of "hiding info in links", but also link to MOS:NOFORCELINK
• not mention "hiding info in links" at all

jlwoodwa (talk) 20:51, 29 May 2023 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 26 September 2023

A wikilink (or internal link) is a link from one page to another page within the English Wikipedia, or, more generally, within the same Wikipedia (e.g. within the French Wikipedia), in other words: within the same domain, or, even more generally, within the same Wikimedia project (e.g. within Wiktionary). 223.177.183.193 (talk) 08:07, 26 September 2023 (UTC)

 Not done for now: It's not clear what changes you want to be made - the only difference is that you've linked "within Wiktionary" to this article. Is that what you intended? Tollens (talk) 08:25, 26 September 2023 (UTC)

two opposite meanings

Simple question: what is In the context of a link from an anchor to a target, it is the starting place. and could you give an example of when this occurs? CapnZapp (talk) 12:44, 31 October 2023 (UTC)

Why did the links change color?

I can't tell if this is intentional or a glitch. In mobile view, links I have already clicked, instead of being purple, are the same color as normal text. This makes it impossible to tell if a word is linked if you have clicked a link to that article before. This issue applies to normal links, section links, and every other kind of link that changes from blue to purple when clicked. The links are still the correct color in desktop view. QuicoleJR (talk) 21:43, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

Nevermind, found the task on Phabricator. QuicoleJR (talk) 22:23, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 20 March 2024

Suggest adding a short section about linking to redirect pages. Currently, there are a couple of mentions of the "redirect=no" parameter as an example of something simple wikilinks can't do, and how to do it with general-purpose templates like {{plain link}} and {{querylink}} instead. Which is great, but overkill when all one wants to do is link to instead of thru a regular redirect, which is bound to account for the majority of use cases. Draft:

“ It is not possible to create an ordinary link to a redirect page, but custom templates can be used instead, such as {{no redirect}} and {{redirect?}}. The latter works for both redirects and non-redirects but styles them differently, similar to the way they are displayed within categories. The following examples use the templates' shorter aliases:

• {{-r|Shakespeare}} → Shakespeare
• {{-r|Shakespeare|Shakespeare (redirect)}} → Shakespeare (redirect)
• {{r?|Shakespeare}} redirects to {{r?|William Shakespeare}} → Shakespeare redirects to William Shakespeare

”

This should go anywhere before § Special pages links, so that by the time the reader gets to the first "redirect=no" example there, they already know they don't need to do it that way in straightforward cases. - 2A02:560:5829:B000:B9F7:CF82:EEE5:7596 (talk) 16:39, 20 March 2024 (UTC)

Just a comment. § Special pages links is not intended to teach people how to link to redirect pages. It's just a example of a link with an ampersand in it. The proposed text can, and probably should, be below it. Dan Bloch (talk) 17:08, 20 March 2024 (UTC)

Quite, but what a section is intended to do doesn't really signify. Coming to this page and searching for "redirect" or "redirect=no" specifically is a likely course of action for those trying to find out how to link to redirect pages, and those sections are currently where that lands them, and which even allow them to work out a solution of sorts.

Replacing the mention of "redirect=no" with a different one of the various query strings that can occur in the kind of URL that the questions are intended to be about would be even better. Note that the "redirect" parameter never actually ends up occuring in the code portions but only the prose portions of those sections.

I just figured relative placement would be sufficient.

- 2A02:560:5829:B000:B9F7:CF82:EEE5:7596 (talk) 19:38, 20 March 2024 (UTC)

Special pages links says: Because the ampersand character is disallowed, it is not possible to create an ordinary link containing action edit or redirect no in the URL query string. In these cases, use templates or magic words, see Links containing URL query strings.

Isn't this sufficient? CapnZapp (talk) 10:50, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

 Not done for now: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the {{Edit semi-protected}} template. Shadow311 (talk) 18:46, 26 March 2024 (UTC)