User talk:Masato.harada

Hi. I am making these changes to clarify the situation necessary for the long-standing discussions at Talk:Telegram (disambiguation) to eventually reach consensus.

There is a substantial amount of ambiguity with regard to the singular form because Mediawiki can't distinguish case in "telegram" and "Telegram". However, in the plural form, there's no such ambiguity, so I'm making the links clearer so we can measure the singular better.

If you actually read MOS:PIPESTYLE, you'll notice how it doesn't actually prohibit linking plurals, it's just a guideline to avoid adding extra pipe syntax when it's not necessary. My edits that you reverted are indeed not doing that. --Joy (talk) 11:52, 15 February 2026 (UTC)

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I am writing an article about an Austrian subject, in which I would like to link to the German WP article Verein (meaning "association"), and specifically to the section within it about Verein in Austria. The English article Verein is a disambiguation page, and there is no English WP article about the Austrian Verein. I can do this linking using ''[[:de:Verein#Österreich|Verein]]'' (Verein), but this does not indicate to the reader that they are leaving English WP and going to German WP. If I use ''{{ill|Verein|de|Verein#Österreich}}'' (Verein), it takes me to the English WP disambiguation page. Is there some option within Template:Ill or elsewhere that will force a link to the German PW article, showing it is German, even though an English article exists? Masato.harada (talk) 09:53, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

@Masato.harada: The simplest way to indicate you're linking to another wiki is by adding the language prefix in the wikilink: ''[[:de:Verein#Österreich|de:Verein]]'' (de:Verein). However, non-Wikipedian readers may not understand the notation, so you may rather use an explicit language name: ''[[:de:Verein#Österreich|Verein (in German)]]'' (Verein (in German)). But the best solution I can think of at the moment is making a footnote with an explicit description of what you mean, something like 'See Verein in the German Wikipedia'.
CiaPan (talk) 10:11, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

@Masato.harada: Another advantage of the solution is that its meaning would not get lost if the contents is copied somewhere else in the Web or even printed on paper. CiaPan (talk) 11:33, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

@Masato.harada Since Verein is a disambiguation page in English, to use {{ill}} you need to supply a different title for what the missing article would/should be in English. For example something like {{ill|Registered association (Austria)|de|Verein#Österreich}} which renders as Registered association (Austria) [de] Note that this is really only useful if it is likely that there will be a separate article created for that topic. If not, the suggestions by CiaPan also works without showing the red link. older ≠ wiser 12:01, 13 March 2026 (UTC)