User talk:Antzblu

March 2016
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Ludwig Philippson has been reverted. Your edit here to Ludwig Philippson was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline. The external link(s) you added or changed (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBy2mOMM1hE) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. If the external link you inserted or changed was to a media file (e.g. a sound or video file) on an external server, then note that linking to such files may be subject to Wikipedia's copyright policy, as well as other parts of our external links guideline. If the information you linked to is indeed in violation of copyright, then such information should not be linked to. Please consider using our upload facility to upload a suitable media file, or consider linking to the original. If you were trying to insert an external link that does comply with our policies and guidelines, then please accept my creator's apologies and feel free to undo the bot's revert. However, if the link does not comply with our policies and guidelines, but your edit included other, constructive, changes to the article, feel free to make those changes again without re-adding the link. Please read Wikipedia's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! --XLinkBot (talk) 21:57, 25 March 2016 (UTC)

Foreign-language Wikipedia articles
As noted at WP:HD, adding a link to a foreign-language page is easy — just type a color, the language prefix, another colon, and the name of the other page. The language prefix is the first part of the URL after https:// in all cases; if you were using another wiki and adding a link to the English Main Page, you'd write en:Main Page. German uses de (it's de.wikipedia.org), so to pick a random BLP with no English article, you type de:Klaus Riebschläger to get de:Klaus Riebschläger.

In general, it's best not to include a link to a foreign-language page instead of to a nonexistent English page. Red links help us know what articles need to be written (see WP:REDDEAL if you want to read up on the details), and if someone writes a new article on the subject in question, the article will already have a link from another article, which wouldn't be the case if we just linked to the foreign-language page, and anyway most people reading about German individuals in English don't know German (otherwise they'd be reading the German Wikipedia), so a German article won't help them. However, it's fine to provide both. For example, imagine the following text:"One of the politicians supporting this position was Klaus Riebschläger (biography in German), who argued that..."This way, you serve the German-speaking reader without getting rid of the existing red link. Finally, you can use a special language template, ill. Supply the right parameters, and it will give the red link and provide a link to the foreign page, but only if we don't have an article by that name. For example, displays a little de, which links to the German article, but when we use the same code for a person with articles in both languages, Miloslav Fleischmann gives a link for English only.

I know that this is a lot of information for someone so new here. If you feel overwhelmed by this and you want help, or if you want help on any other issue, feel free to leave a note at my talk page, and I'll do my best to help. Nyttend (talk) 00:49, 26 March 2016 (UTC)