Wikipedia talk:External links

message: Editors watching this page may be interested in Wikipedia:Bot requests#External links bot. WhatamIdoing (talk) 06:44, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bot to increase use of external link templates 

message: Please see my question in Wikipedia_talk:Citing sources#What to do if original website was replaced by predatory dangerous website. - Altenmann >talk 06:22, 15 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: For any future readers, this is covered under Wikipedia:External links#Hijacked and re-registered sites, and in the |url-status= parameter of most Wikipedia:Citation templates. WhatamIdoing (talk) 17:55, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  What to do if Original website was replaced by predatory dsngerous website 

message: Shouldn't phishing sites (sites that try to deceive the reader that they are the "official" site of a bank or similar, so that they can steal things from them) be included in links to avoid? Cambalachero (talk) 14:29, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: We would handle those under either Wikipedia:External links#Hijacked and re-registered sites or WP:ELNO#EL3 (malware), but it doesn't seem to be a significant problem in practice.  We don't ever have arguments over whether it would be better to keep the phishing site instead of the official one.  Adding that would probably amount to unnecessary WP:Instruction creep with no actual change in behavior. WhatamIdoing (talk) 17:54, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Phishing 

message: Mrsone40 (talk) 02:59, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: . Please provide a description of the changes you want made. ― novov (t c) 06:39, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 30 March 2024 

message: Can someone take a look at this edit made by  in August 2023? When the "notes" were converted to :WP:SRF#Explanatory notes in change their numbering from numerical (1, 2, 3, etc.) to alphabetic (a, b, c, etc.). Since these notes are are referred to using Wikilinks in edit summaries or on other talk pages, all of the links no longer work. If there's a way to use  with numbers instead of letters of the alphabet, then that might be preferable so that links to the notes still work. If not, then perhaps the bold change should be reverted to re-establish the :WP:STATUSQUO and allow it to be discussed a bit. If using "efn" is the way to go here and it's impossible to convert them to a numerical system, then perhaps :WP:ANCHORs should be added so that links to the old system work again. -- Marchjuly (talk) 21:26, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Such links can't be preserved forever anyway; even if the old formatting style were restored, the numbers change every time an earlier ref is added to the page. WhatamIdoing (talk) 22:46, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: I understand that, but "anchors" can be updated each time a note is added or removed. -- Marchjuly (talk) 00:37, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Do you want to replace all of the links in past discussions that currently link to something like "WP:EL#cite_note-6" to a newly created, permanent anchor?  When that footnote becomes #cite_note-7, we can't add an anchor to its old #cite_note-6 location, as that number will be needed in for a different place on the page. WhatamIdoing (talk) 02:09, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: I thought just updating the anchors for the efns being used in the EL page would work; however, after thinking about it a but more, you're right that there's much more involved than that. As long as there's a way to link to the notes like before, things should be fine. Thanks for the feedback. -- Marchjuly (talk) 03:13, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notes formatting