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When I tried using the red links in my draft about Piper Rockelle, the links went straight to the first page on the subject, or disambiguation links, not a red link. To try and fix the problem, I added the appropriate links on the disambiguation links, but User:MB reverted them because the links went to the main page or the disambiguation, not red links. Why does following these instructions not make a red link? Krystal Kalb (talk) 02:42, 20 June 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Please provide a link to your draft and I'll try to get an idea of what you were attempting and why it did not produce redlinks. - Butwhatdoiknow (talk) 15:29, 20 June 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Draft:Piper Rockelle Smith Krystal Kalb (talk) 01:24, 6 July 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Looking at the history and I don't see any edits by User:MB. - Butwhatdoiknow (talk) 15:57, 6 July 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

No, User:MB reverted my edits on the disambiguation pages, not the draft page. I’m sorry if I made this unclear. Krystal Kalb (talk) 22:27, 7 July 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Okay, please provide the links to the disambiguation pages where the reverts took place. - Butwhatdoiknow (talk) 01:01, 8 July 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Krystal Kalb, were you describing how the links in e.g. Draft:Piper Rockelle Smith#Discography don't show up as red links but as links to unrelated articles or disambiguation pages? If that's the case, then you'd need to pipe them to the correct titles (like this: Butterflies, I'm assuming those are songs). However, I'm not sure linking at all is a good idea to begin with: as you might have read at Wikipedia:Red link, redlinks can generally be inserted only if you expect their target to eventually be created, and articles should be created only if they're notable (for the case of songs, the notability guidelines are at WP:NSONG).

You also need to be aware that the draft you've been working on is on a topic that was previously deleted here, see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Piper Rockelle. This was 9 months ago, so it's possible significant coverage of the topic may have arisen since then, so we're not bound by the outcome of that discussion. But it's still something to bear in mind.

The edits to dab pages that you mention getting reverted by MB are this (and a few similar ones). MB was correct to revert them: we shouldn't create disambiguation entries for topics that don't (yet) have coverage on Wikipedia (drafts don't count). You can see WP:DDD and especially WP:WTAF. – Uanfala (talk) 00:30, 9 July 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I attempted to red-link a person that does not have a Wikipedia article, but instead it blue-links to someone else of the same name who does have an article. Is there a workaround? Conjunctio (talk) 19:45, 29 May 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

See Wikipedia:Red link#Non-unique names (or, if someone changes or deletes this heading, Wikipedia:Red link#To biographical articles). I've just created this subsection and rewritten the text, but the general content was there before. Basically, link Tom Mueller (writer) instead of Tom Mueller You can use a pipe (vertical bar) so that only the name os displayed to readers; [[Thomas Vernon Mueller (writer)|Tom Mueller]] displays as "Tom Mueller". HTH, Pol098 (talk) 21:14, 27 June 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

The guideline says at present "Lists of "notable people" in an article, such as the "Notable alumni" section in an article on a university, tend to accrue red links, listing people of unverifiable notability. Such red links should be removed only if it's certain the subject would not qualify for an article on Wikipedia."

I suggest that it is nearly always a bad idea to redlink names, even if notable and justifying an article, due to the significant likelihood of someone else of the same name getting an article - this quite often happens in reality, it's not a theoretical quibble. Obviously this applies much more strongly to, say, "John Smith" than "John Smith (stamp collector)". I would be minded to modify the guideline to reflect this, particularly for lists of notable people, but it's too controversial for a WP:bold edit. (I've today modified the guideline boldly to discourage redlinking names - a lot of articles simply redlink virtually all names mentioned.) Best wishes, Pol098 (talk) 21:07, 27 June 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

The redirect African eleephant, the canonical example of an extremely unlikely typo here from July 2011 to November 2019, has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2023 October 29 § African eleephant until a consensus is reached. —Cryptic 20:01, 29 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]