Wikidata:Requests for comment/Links to redirects with possibilities

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stale --Pasleim (talk) 09:03, 20 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I suggest to make "redirects with possibilities" (identified as members of category Q8644509 or something else) available when adding sitelinks. For example, I would like be able to attach en:Infrastructure as a service to item Q1346018. Such redirects are potential articles (i. e. 'entities'), so why we cannot attach them to the items? Bezik (talk)

@Bezik: did you ask this question already on the Project Chat? I really want to avoid having too many requests for comment, especially on topics which can very simply be asked on the project chat. -- Bene* ^t_a^l_k 14:50, 31 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

No, I did't. If there is a requirement to ask such questions in Project Chat but not here, then please move this theme, Bezik (talk) 18:08, 31 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I think it was even recently discussed (with a clear no from developers) and must be in archives. May be someone here has the link ready at hand?--Ymblanter (talk) 20:56, 31 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This is basically WD:Requests for comment/A need for a resolution regarding article moves and redirects. --Izno (talk) 03:11, 1 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

That discussion was about sitelinks to redirects, but here I've suggested to add sitelinks to "redirect with possibilities". Such objects are not redirects in general sense, they could be considered as a specific form of article stub (also they may include some metadata, categories, templates, specific to the entity, not to redirect target). I think the main question is just to find technically clear solution to distinguish redirects with possibilities from other redirects, Bezik (talk) 06:52, 1 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Infovarius in mentioned discussion suggested to separate potential articles from regular redirects using template Template:Soft redirect with Wikidata item (Q16956589). If such special templating could be effective method to filter entities from redirects then it could be applied (instead of using dedicated category). Also, in Russian Wikipedia there was a suggestion about a simple hack — to remove temporarily '#' symbol in redirect and attach it to Wikidata item: it works, and sitelink to redirect actually preserved (see sitelink to .ru for global analysis (Q17017346)). What we need is just to give functionality to do it without hack, but using clear rule (inclusion to a dedicated category or adding a dedicated template), Bezik (talk) 14:36, 2 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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