Help talk:Interlanguage links

message: There's a Japanese language version of this article at https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESOP but I'm unable to add Japanese as a language to this article because it says the Japanese article is already being linked to by another item. 60.102.232.135 (talk) 14:15, 21 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Our article Employee stock ownership links to :ja:ESOP and vice versa. What's the problem? -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 14:21, 21 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Can't add link to Japanese ESOP article 

message: Was looking up the article on the German railway line Gäubahn railway line in SW Germany. It seemed pretty brief, so clicked the ILL for German looking for more info, which links to de:Gaubahn (note the lack of the ä-umlaut), which is an article to a different rail line in south central Germany along the Baden-Württemberg/Bavarian state border. The French link is also to the fr:Gaubahn.
I tried to remove the Gaubahn links from the ILL table, but then figured out it is the English link which is wrong. The ILL set is for the Gaubahn. There is no English language article for this railway line. However, the Gäubahn exists in both French and German (as well as Italian, Dutch, and Japanese). When I tried to remove the en link from the Gaubahn ILL, I get an error message that it cannot be removed unless the article has been deleted. The article is fine, but the link is to a different topic.
So, ... would someone smarter than me please fix this? The English language Gäubahn article ILL needs to be deleted from the de:Gaubahn/fr:Gaubahn ILL menu, and added to the de:Gäubahn/fr:Ligne de Stuttgart à Singen/etc. ILL for the Gäubahn Bilhartz (talk) 14:50, 28 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Can't remove an erroneous Interlanguage link 

message: Hello, seeking external guidance on a recent bone of contention. Please see this edit for the page Excelsior Recordings, which removed a substantial number of interlanguage links to Dutch musicians with articles on the Dutch Wikipedia. The editor's rationale was, "Revert spammy version, this is the English-language Wikipedia and not the Dutch version". I think the links are consistent with the idea that, if there is information on a topic in another language, that prima facie suggests we may need information on that topic on the English Wikipedia as well. Your thoughts? Chubbles (talk) 05:24, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Why don't you write the articles? You are now just trying to hide that the articles do not exist and that the artists are - to ENWP-standards - non-notable. The Banner talk 09:10, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

text: You're right. This is why the template exists, it's the whole point, and since the subject is Dutch the links are relevant. Spam??? Linking to information that's on Wikipedia, albeit on another language's edition of it, is spam??? It's no more spam than is linking from one article on English Wikipedia to another. The Banner, if you don't like it, then you're welcome to start a discussion here to gain consensus to remove H:FOREIGNLINK. For now, it exists and is in effect, and at the moment there are 176,187 transclusions of the  tag and 137,446 of the  tag across English Wikipedia. Largoplazo (talk) 10:04, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

text: This seems an appropriate use of the template. older ≠ wiser 10:20, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Should interlanguage links be removed from this article?