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Happy editing! Peaceray (talk) 15:06, 1 October 2025 (UTC)<!--Template:WelcomeMenu-->

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Mariamnei (talk) 12:49, 11 May 2026 (UTC)

Anywhere, State links


I noticed a recent edit of yours to the Alice K. Leopold ↗ page which converted several place links from the form "Anywhere, State|Anywhere" to just "Anywhere". In both cases the "Anywhere" link goes to a redirect to the page "Anywhere, State". Is it in fact better to convert the links into simpler ones that go to a redirect? Is that the standard now? I think I was told a long time ago that if the page you are going to is "Anywhere, State", the link should ideally go directly there and not via a redirect. You can reply here if you wish. Brianyoumans (talk) 20:33, 11 May 2026 (UTC)

:Thanks for pointing that out! I'm going to self revert it as I think that last edit was a mistake on my part while I was moving too fast checking the link to the college, and I am not 100% sure of the standard practice based on skimming guidelines just now. The script automatically unpipes according to WP:NOPIPE ↗ and WP:NOTBROKEN ↗, which doesn't necessarily translate correctly for place pages, unless they're ones like San Francisco ↗. Anywhere, State|Anywhere makes more practical sense to me as you said. Birdlab (talk) 21:53, 11 May 2026 (UTC)

::Yeah, it seems like one of those trade-offs of maybe processor power, server traffic, ease of writing the pages... all well above my pay grade. But it seems to me that going directly to the proper page makes the most sense. I've also seen people correcting things to just the single link "Anywhere, State", but that seems a little off to me since users might expect that to be two links, one to the place and the other to the state. Eh, mostly I just write articles and let other folks sort out exactly how the technical formatting is supposed to be. Cheers! Brianyoumans (talk) 14:21, 12 May 2026 (UTC)