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Happy editing! Jerm (talk) 22:18, 4 February 2021 (UTC)

Mexico City Grand Prix and badminton
Hello. If you have got the wrong idea about what my point was, or the position I was taking at Talk:2021 Formula One World Championship, it's probably my fault for not handling the whole thing better.

This all started a couple days ago when I noticed this edit to Template:Formula One Grands Prix. I innocently clicked on the newly-added link to Mexico City Grand Prix, and was absolutely astonished to find myself taken to an article about a badminton tournament. (up until a few hours ago, Mexico City Grand Prix was the name of a badminton article; it was a direct link not a redirect) After a rather lengthy discussion at the editor's talk page, I noticed the same editor had made several other edits of similar nature, linking the badminton article in several Formula One related pages. I reverted them all.

Then after that, I see the piped links thread at Talk:2021 Formula One World Championship and realized the thread, in part at least, was the motivation behind the edits I had just reverted. My fear was that others would soon do the same thing without realizing the situation. So I looked into moving Mexico City Grand Prix to a redirect to Mexican Grand Prix. I found this was technically impossible, without the help of an admin. I also noticed the talk page had a banner for a previous requested move in February. That move is what brought the badminton article to be named Mexico City Grand Prix in the first place. My fears grew because I thought, not only are people going to be trying to link this badminton article in F1 articles, but it's also going take a little while to get the mess straightened out and get the page moved to where it should be. (It was here I made several incorrect assumptions about what it would take to fix the problem.)

So anyway I go to Talk:2021 Formula One World Championship and write the "Leningrad example", the post you first replied. Now, what I should have done instead, was simply state to everyone, "hey all, you may or may not already know this, but Mexico City Grand Prix currently links to a badminton tournament, fyi". Why I didn't just do that, I don't know. Maybe it was late, I was tired, had a few drinks, etc. I can say that I didn't want to call out the editor, who in good faith, made the link changes earlier; especially after I had already talked to the editor at length on his talk page.

So none of what you replied to really had anything to do with my position on piped links vs redirects. It had nothing to with São Paulo. You and anyone else may change as many links to redirects as you like as long as its gonna help. It's a damn good idea! But that's not what I was getting at...

It was all about Mexico City Grand Prix and badminton. DB1729 (talk) 15:35, 3 October 2021 (UTC)
 * I see, apologize for the misunderstanding! With the badminton page having been moved I suppose the situation is resolved. Ved havet (talk) 15:43, 3 October 2021 (UTC)

External link and wikilink syntax
Just for your information, you can format external links like so:, which gives. Alternatively, you can do, which becomes this. The piping is only for wikilinks; the previous one is. If you combine pipes with external links, the link will break:  creates this unintentional behavior |this. Hope you found that helpful. Rotideypoc41352 (talk · contribs) 16:46, 17 October 2021 (UTC)

Kevin O'Connell
Sorry about reverting the wrong edit.

Regards, AbelAndCain AbelAndCain (talk) 01:27, 3 February 2022 (UTC)


 * @AbelAndCain: No worries at all, the edit history is a mess at the moment! Ved havet ≈ (talk) 01:29, 3 February 2022 (UTC)

missed ping
Hey Ved havet, just letting you know that your attempted ping at talk:Melissa Lucio was not sent, because you modified an earlier comment rather than making a new one. See WP:MENTION: basically you need to get it right the first time or make a new paragraph with a new signature. (It kind of sucks.)

Anyway, I have that particular page on my watchlist, so no need to ping me there in the future.

I will not reply now; I'm still thinking about it and I want to see if CB replies first. Kind regards from  PJvanMill ) talk ( 22:50, 9 March 2022 (UTC)


 * I was under the impression that replacing my signature with a new one in the same edit would trigger a ping. Oh well! Ved havet ≈ (talk) 22:52, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

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