Template talk:Interlanguage link info

Wording

Martin of Sheffield, thinking about some changes to this. The antecedent of They is "links to pages on foreign language Wikipedias", and those links are not shown in red. (In fact, they are always blue, even if there's a typo or the foreign article does not exist.) Secondly, even when that wording is fixed to refer to properly to the en-wiki page, it's still not the case that the link is red; it's blue for redirects (apparently, a behavior change in 2016). How about:

This <param-1> contains numerous links to articles that do not exist yet, but which have counterparts in one or more foreign language Wikipedias. These article links may be shown in red, with language codes in [small blue letters] enclosed in square brackets. Click on the language code to see the page in that language.

I'm also thinking of mimicking the actual appearance in the wording, like, 'article link [xx]' in order to model what to look for.

As a more minor point, I was uncertain what to do about "red links". In other contexts, we'd link that to WP:red links, and we could do that here, too, but then it would be blue, and in this case, we're trying to model (red) appearance, so it seems like we can't have both the color and the link. I've modeled one possible approach above. Or maybe leave it in plain text, and code ...contains numerous links to [[articles that do not exist]] yet instead?

Another minor point: AE brackets are BE square brackets; conversely, just plain brackets in BE are parentheses in AE, so some possibility for confusion, there. Square brackets, while a pleonasm in AE, is at least unambiguous in both. Mathglot (talk) 19:28, 17 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

No problems, thanks for your input. I'm not sure that you need the word "square" though, [] are brackets, () parentheses and {} braces, or does American English do this differently? Martin of Sheffield (talk) 19:51, 17 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]