Wikipedia:Red link: Revision history

5 May 2024

• curprev 14:3414:34, 5 May 2024‎ Wik6516 talk contribs‎ m 16,524 bytes +70‎ oops! Tag: 2017 wikitext editor
• curprev 14:2814:28, 5 May 2024‎ Wik6516 talk contribs‎ m 16,454 bytes −175‎ shaving some bytes Tag: 2017 wikitext editor

27 March 2024

• curprev 18:3318:33, 27 March 2024‎ Sirfurboy talk contribs‎ 16,629 bytes −195‎ Undid revision 1214125209 by Up the Walls (talk) Revert sock puppet and per previous reversion Tag: Undo

17 March 2024

• curprev 02:4202:42, 17 March 2024‎ Up the Walls talk contribs‎ 16,824 bytes +195‎ Undid revision 1214113037 by Johnuniq (talk) Per the template {{subcat guideline}}, this page is not a rule - it's a guideline, and the guideline, as written in this page, does encourage use of interlanguage link when the article does not exist on the English Wikipedia Tags: Undo Reverted
• curprev 01:0601:06, 17 March 2024‎ Johnuniq talk contribs‎ 16,629 bytes −195‎ Undid revision 1214078297 by Up the Walls (talk) using ill is not a rule as suggested by padding the nutshell with this Tags: Undo Reverted

16 March 2024

• curprev 20:4820:48, 16 March 2024‎ Up the Walls talk contribs‎ 16,824 bytes +195‎ Add the {{Ill}} option to the nutshell Tag: Reverted

15 March 2024

• curprev 02:0402:04, 15 March 2024‎ WhatamIdoing talk contribs‎ 16,629 bytes −210‎ Undid revision 1213614995 by Up the Walls (talk) I think it's a bit more complicated than that Tag: Undo

14 March 2024

• curprev 02:4802:48, 14 March 2024‎ Up the Walls talk contribs‎ 16,839 bytes +210‎ Refine the nutshell because it seems that for BLP, red links are discouraged, not encouraged. Tag: Reverted

13 March 2024

• curprev 23:2923:29, 13 March 2024‎ Up the Walls talk contribs‎ 16,629 bytes −1‎ →‎To biographical articles: better link
• curprev 23:2123:21, 13 March 2024‎ Up the Walls talk contribs‎ 16,630 bytes +17‎ →‎To biographical articles: add link
• curprev 23:0623:06, 13 March 2024‎ Up the Walls talk contribs‎ 16,613 bytes −3‎ →‎To biographical articles: grammar
• curprev 22:4922:49, 13 March 2024‎ Up the Walls talk contribs‎ 16,616 bytes +4‎ →‎To biographical articles: copyedit
• curprev 22:4922:49, 13 March 2024‎ Up the Walls talk contribs‎ 16,612 bytes +34‎ →‎To biographical articles: copyedit
• curprev 22:4722:47, 13 March 2024‎ Up the Walls talk contribs‎ 16,578 bytes +35‎ →‎To biographical articles: copyedit
• curprev 22:4522:45, 13 March 2024‎ Up the Walls talk contribs‎ 16,543 bytes −257‎ →‎To biographical articles: rewrite because the sentence "All the rules that apply to our biographies on living people equally apply to red-linked names" essentially says that "all the policies that apply to content also apply to lack of content", and that makes no sense

24 February 2024

• curprev 21:5521:55, 24 February 2024‎ Paul 012 talk contribs‎ 16,800 bytes +5‎ reword nutshell summary to avoid grammatically incorrect comma

8 January 2024

• curprev 07:0807:08, 8 January 2024‎ Shyamal talk contribs‎ 16,795 bytes −2‎ correct grammar

31 December 2023

• curprev 22:0122:01, 31 December 2023‎ Pol098 talk contribs‎ 16,797 bytes +23‎ →‎Non-unique names: (eventually pointing to an article added later for a different person) + company, or place

23 October 2023

• curprev 16:2616:26, 23 October 2023‎ Giraffer talk contribs‎ 16,774 bytes −13‎ →‎Dealing with existing red links: new redlink, Literacy in Somalia Tag: 2017 wikitext editor

1 October 2023

• curprev 04:4904:49, 1 October 2023‎ Siroxo talk contribs‎ 16,787 bytes −11‎ →‎Avoiding creation of certain types of red links: old section link didn't point to anything, update section

8 September 2023

• curprev 11:5511:55, 8 September 2023‎ Vaticidalprophet talk contribs‎ m 16,798 bytes +28‎ →‎Dealing with existing red links: forgot to fix the stub

28 August 2023

• curprev 02:4902:49, 28 August 2023‎ Vaticidalprophet talk contribs‎ 16,770 bytes +4‎ →‎Dealing with existing red links: ...well, there's a former PROD and an unlikely draft, but BEFORE is *very clearly* notable, so hopefully good enough an example

26 August 2023

• curprev 23:3623:36, 26 August 2023‎ John M Wolfson talk contribs‎ 16,766 bytes −5‎ Tweak

12 August 2023

• curprev 04:1504:15, 12 August 2023‎ AviationFreak talk contribs‎ 16,771 bytes −33‎ →‎Dealing with existing red links: Whee! Through the UK's countries we go!

13 July 2023

• curprev 04:2504:25, 13 July 2023‎ Danbloch talk contribs‎ m 16,804 bytes −6‎ →‎Dealing with existing red links: ce: unbold

27 June 2023

• curprev 20:5520:55, 27 June 2023‎ Pol098 talk contribs‎ 16,810 bytes +38‎ →‎Dealing with existing red links: minor: click "what links here" + (although the article does not exist) (unrelated to my previous big edit)
• curprev 20:4720:47, 27 June 2023‎ Pol098 talk contribs‎ 16,772 bytes +114‎ →‎Non-unique names: several undramatic mods to my recent wording
• curprev 20:3920:39, 27 June 2023‎ Pol098 talk contribs‎ m 16,658 bytes +63‎ →‎Non-unique names
• curprev 12:3512:35, 27 June 2023‎ Pol098 talk contribs‎ 16,595 bytes +165‎ →‎Non-unique names: +
• curprev 12:2212:22, 27 June 2023‎ Pol098 talk contribs‎ m 16,430 bytes +6‎ →‎Non-unique names
• curprev 12:1512:15, 27 June 2023‎ Pol098 talk contribs‎ 16,424 bytes +520‎ →‎To biographical articles: significant rewrite. Add new recommendation explicitly: "Simply redlinking names of people in an article, without detail and regardless of notability, should be avoided." Bold edit; revert or edit if inappropriate. Tag: Disambiguation links added

22 May 2023

• curprev 02:5202:52, 22 May 2023‎ The person who loves reading talk contribs‎ 15,904 bytes −1‎ it seems odd to leave space between guidelines and nutshell template Tag: 2017 wikitext editor

19 May 2023

• curprev 21:0521:05, 19 May 2023‎ Pol098 talk contribs‎ 15,905 bytes −2‎ move my recent Redlinking names of people who are not obviously notable
• curprev 21:0421:04, 19 May 2023‎ Pol098 talk contribs‎ 15,907 bytes +6‎ Headings: (+To) Biographical articles; (+in) disambiguation pages
• curprev 21:0121:01, 19 May 2023‎ Pol098 talk contribs‎ m 15,901 bytes +1‎ →‎Avoiding creation of certain types of red links: (Firefox spurious break-losing)
• curprev 20:5920:59, 19 May 2023‎ Pol098 talk contribs‎ 15,900 bytes +245‎ →‎Avoiding creation of certain types of red links: delete if inappropriate: " Redlinking names of people who are not obviously notable has, in addition to the presence of a link that is unlikely to ever become blue, the not uncommon risk of an article added for a different person with the same name."

18 May 2023

• curprev 07:5207:52, 18 May 2023‎ Kusma talk contribs‎ 15,655 bytes +28‎ Undid revision 1094843964 by Cewbot (talk): keep ill in place as example, deny cewbot

14 May 2023

• curprev 02:2102:21, 14 May 2023‎ Sumanuil talk contribs‎ 15,627 bytes 0‎ →‎Avoiding creation of certain types of red links

17 April 2023

• curprev 01:5701:57, 17 April 2023‎ Red-tailed hawk talk contribs‎ 15,627 bytes −3‎ →‎Dealing with existing red links: corruption in Northern Ireland

31 March 2023

• curprev 19:3319:33, 31 March 2023‎ Schwede66 talk contribs‎ 15,630 bytes +53‎ →‎Avoiding creation of certain types of red links: as per discussion Talk:Main_Page/Archive_206#Red_links

28 March 2023

• curprev 02:1402:14, 28 March 2023‎ Sbharris talk contribs‎ 15,577 bytes +436‎ →‎top: Reminder on why we have red links, even though verily many editors are freaked out by the color (I personally think they should be green).

24 March 2023

• curprev 08:5008:50, 24 March 2023‎ CrafterNova talk contribs‎ 15,141 bytes +15‎ →‎Avoiding creation of certain types of red links: +link Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit

16 February 2023

• curprev 18:0018:00, 16 February 2023‎ ModernDayTrilobite talk contribs‎ 15,126 bytes +17‎ →‎Dealing with existing red links: updating "placeholder stub" text to reflect the current plausible red link example

6 February 2023

• curprev 23:3023:30, 6 February 2023‎ Tamzin talk contribs‎ 15,109 bytes −15‎ →‎Dealing with existing red links: that was fast... let's try going back to Africa (sorta)

4 February 2023

• curprev 18:0118:01, 4 February 2023‎ Tamzin talk contribs‎ 15,124 bytes +83‎ →‎Dealing with existing red links: footnote linking to Wikipedia:Red link/History of the example red link
• curprev 17:3317:33, 4 February 2023‎ Tamzin talk contribs‎ 15,041 bytes −34‎ →‎Dealing with existing red links: Catholic Church in Sint Maarten created by Sahaib. switch to one redlinked in an article I wrote

20 January 2023

• curprev 22:3522:35, 20 January 2023‎ Red-tailed hawk talk contribs‎ 15,075 bytes 0‎ →‎Dealing with existing red links: i canna spell
• curprev 22:2122:21, 20 January 2023‎ Red-tailed hawk talk contribs‎ 15,075 bytes +15‎ →‎Dealing with existing red links: cc User:Etamni; "Driving in Madagascar" is now a bluelink.
• curprev 22:1922:19, 20 January 2023‎ Red-tailed hawk talk contribs‎ 15,060 bytes +41‎ →‎Dealing with existing red links: Driving in Madagascar is now a bluelink.

27 October 2022

• curprev 17:2417:24, 27 October 2022‎ Awesome Aasim talk contribs‎ 15,019 bytes +17‎ avoid stuffing beans up people's noses Tags: Manual revert 2017 wikitext editor