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Wikitravel talk:Links from Wikipedia
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[edit] Usable
I've added a note that links should only be made on Wikipedia if the Wikitravel article is "usable" or higher. This has been a community rule-of-thumb for a long time, but it wasn't explicit here. --Evan 15:50, 24 March 2007 (EDT)
[edit] Problem with Wikipedia link
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How do we handle adding a Wikipedia link to Wikitravel when the city names are entered diffently. For instance, how would the Wikitravel link for Coral Gables be added to the Wikipedia page Coral Gables, Florida? I added the link, but the abscence of the state on the Wikitravel page makes the link go to the wrong page. MiamiDolphins3 14:46, 28 December 2008 (EST)
- It works now. Just type the name of the city on Wikipedia. Even though the city is called "Coral Gables" here, put a WIkipedia link: [[WikiPedia:Coral Gables, Florida]].
- Exactly. The link on Wikitravel to Wikipedia worked fine from the beginning. The link from Wikipedia to Wikitravel has not worked because the Wikitravel article is named Coral Gables, not Coral Gables, Florida. This is a pretty big issue that needs resolution.MiamiDolphins3 18:53, 28 December 2008 (EST)
- The simple solution is to create a redirect on WT for Coral Gables, Florida, pointing to our Coral Gables article; the WP article can then link to the redirect. That is about all you can do on this end, short of proposing a radical change to our whole naming scheme that probably would not fly.
- There is likely more you can do on the WP end. Isn't there a way to link to a WT article with a different title? If not, could you propose one? Or just use whatever generic mechanism they have for linking to external sites? Pashley 21:04, 28 December 2008 (EST)
- Of course there is, see Wikipedia:Template talk:Wikitravel. The syntax is obvious: {{wikitravel|name-on-Wikitravel}}, so in this case you'd just add {{wikitravel|Coral Gables}}. Jpatokal 00:46, 29 December 2008 (EST)
