Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Wikipedia style and naming
The following discussions are requested to have community-wide attention:
There appears to have been some misunderstandings above about what archiving a citation means (see WP:DEADREF for the current language and WP:ARCHIVEEARLY for the process, see WP:LINKROT for some reasons why archiving is a good idea). Just to reiterate, it does not mean replacing existing |url= with a link to Archive.org/Wayback Machine. It means filling the |archive-url= and |archive-date= parameters and setting |url-status=live for links that are not presently dead (see {{cite web}} for more details on the parameters and how they interact). While my reading was that creating such archive URLs was strongly encouraged, there appears to be a consensus that the current language does not even say that. However, what I would propose is not explicitly requiring archive links, but perhaps language here that effectively disallows individual pages from banning the practice altogether. I can't really see where having them causes any harm to our editors or our readers, and the benefits of having them far outweigh the arguments against including them.
All that being said, please indicate whether you Support including language that would forbid individual pages from creating a WP:LOCALCON to disallow archive links, or whether you would Oppose such language. —Locke Cole • t • c 04:33, 27 March 2024 (UTC) |
Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Infoboxes
Should INFOBOXUSE be changed to recommend infoboxes for particular kinds of articles? — Wug·a·po·des 20:37, 15 March 2024 (UTC) |
Wikipedia talk:Categories, lists, and navigation templates
What should WP:BIDIRECTIONAL say?
(Prior discussion above.) Sdkb talk 04:56, 1 March 2024 (UTC) |