User talk:Foxache

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Wikimedia links and shortcuts

Internal links work for linking to other wikis, and bypasses the need to paste in URLs (which tend to be both long and cryptic and make source text harder to read). This also avoids the appearance of the external link arrow ( ).

Here are the prefixes and shortcuts for creating links to Wikipedia's sister projects:

Project	Example	Shortcut	Example
[[wikibooks:]]	wikibooks:	[[b:]]	b:
[[commons:]]	commons:	[[c:]]	c:
[[wikidata:]]	wikidata:	[[d:]]	d:
[[meta:]]	meta:	[[m:]]	m:
[[wikinews:]]	wikinews:	[[n:]]	n:
[[phabricator:]]	phabricator:	[[phab:]]	phab:
[[wikiquote:]]	wikiquote:	[[q:]]	q:
[[wikisource:]]	wikisource:	[[s:]]	s:
[[wikispecies:]]	wikispecies:	[[species:]]	species:
[[wikiversity:]]	wikiversity:	[[v:]]	v:
[[wikivoyage:]]	wikivoyage:	[[voy:]]	voy:
[[wikipedia:]]	[[wikipedia:]]	[[w:]]	w:
[[wiktionary:]]	wiktionary:	[[wikt:]]	wikt:

The long form does not work within the same project. The shortcut works everywhere.

Links to foreign-language Wikiprojects can be made by prefixing the language code: [[:de:s:]] will link to the German-language Wikisource, [[:fr:wikt:]] to the French-language Wiktionary, etc. You can use piped links ( "|" ) to avoid seeing the colons in the link.

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Hello, Foxache. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

• avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, company, organization or competitors;
• propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (see the {{request edit}} template);
• disclose your COI when discussing affected articles (see WP:DISCLOSE);
• avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
• do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you.

Notability

Actually, you didn't even make a claim of notability, let alone back it up (see Wikipedia:Verifiability). The fact that your competitors may have articles just isn't an argument for you to have one (although let me know if you see any existing articles on such subjects that contain promotional language or suggest a COI). If you're confident that the criteria can be met, I recommend you ask someone else to create an article - see Wikipedia:Requested articles. Deb (talk) 13:39, 10 April 2018 (UTC)