Editing Eurovision Wiki talk:WikiProject Articles for creation (section)

== Links to Foreign Wikipedia ==

I reviewed a draft which had links to the [[Polish Wikipedia]] in the [[WP:LEDE|lede paragraph]].  I thought that this was strange enough that I declined the draft with a -custom- explanation.  I could have checked whether articles with the same titles existed in the English Wikipedia, but thought that the author should review and fix the links themselves.  Was this a reasonable action?  Has anyone else encountered this in drafts?  By the way, it was [[Draft:Moi-même-Moitié]].  
[[User:Robert McClenon|Robert McClenon]] ([[User talk:Robert McClenon|talk]]) 05:11, 16 March 2026 (UTC)
:A reasonable action, [[User:Robert McClenon|Robert McClenon]]. I'm pretty sure that several do exist in en:Wikipedia, but I lack the stomach to investigate. If it is helpful to the reader to link to pl:Wikipedia, then I don't see why linking should be done in this way rather than by [[Template:Ill]]. But I doubt that it is helpful. And if it ''were'' helpful, then why the need to link in the lead? -- [[User:Hoary|Hoary]] ([[User talk:Hoary|talk]]) 05:27, 16 March 2026 (UTC)
:But this is the very definition of "easy to fix, nothing to do with notability". Please don't decline drafts for this kind of reason. -- [[User:Asilvering|asilvering]] ([[User talk:Asilvering|talk]]) 06:42, 16 March 2026 (UTC)
::Indeed. Could have just been fixed. There's certainly good reasons sometimes to have links to pages in other Wikipedias if they don't exist natively (they did in this case), and it being in the lede is not important. '''[[User:Lee Vilenski|<span style="color:green">Lee Vilenski</span>]] <sup>([[User talk:Lee Vilenski|talk]] • [[Special:Contribs/Lee Vilenski|contribs]])</sup>''' 10:44, 16 March 2026 (UTC)
:::Agreed. While interlanguage links are not ideal, there is no prohibition from having them, and a decline for ''just'' that is inappropriate. That's a ten-second fix for a reviewer to change the direct link to an {{t|ill}}. [[User:Primefac|Primefac]] ([[User talk:Primefac|talk]]) 14:55, 16 March 2026 (UTC)
::::Indeed. In this case we did have a link in the English Wikipedia for this item. The ill template will even fix that for you (I think there's a bot that goes round main space and removes Ill templates for items that do exist). '''[[User:Lee Vilenski|<span style="color:green">Lee Vilenski</span>]] <sup>([[User talk:Lee Vilenski|talk]] • [[Special:Contribs/Lee Vilenski|contribs]])</sup>''' 18:56, 16 March 2026 (UTC)
:::::Okay.  In the future, if I encounter this, I will leave a comment about the interlanguage link for another reviewer to fix. I didn't feel like trying to fix it, and this is a volunteer project.  [[User:Robert McClenon|Robert McClenon]] ([[User talk:Robert McClenon|talk]]) 21:16, 16 March 2026 (UTC)