Template talk:Poppy

Red links

Hi Ss112. WP:EXISTING, the first line, "Red links and redirects should normally be avoided unless they are very likely to be developed into articles." Am I a Girl? Tour will very likely be developed into an article worthy of keeping, as it goes forward and it and the album get more media. It only needs one or two good sources. So leaving it on the template, at least for awhile, which may encourage somebody to write the page (the main purpose of a template red link) as well as to complete a set (the set of tours by Poppy) is allowed even per the language in the instructional essay (which is not a policy or guideline). Randy Kryn (talk) 21:14, 3 November 2018 (UTC)

@Randy Kryn: I didn't say or imply it was a policy or guideline. It's the logic of the matter: Navigational templates are for existing articles. They are not meant to be a directory of links to non-existent articles in the hopes somebody will see they don't yet exist and make them. They can accomplish exactly the same thing by searching. From a quick Google search, I see no substantial coverage of the tour despite it having begun in September. So it's been going for over a month and it still doesn't exist, and nobody appears very keen to make one (beyond the apparent one deleted attempt that you referenced in one of your summaries). This is like saying six months down the track, "somebody will make an article for it soon" even if the event is over or a large portion of it has passed. You said "some point" in one of your summaries—well, at some point, "some point" ends. If you are interested in the subject matter Randy, might I recommend you make a stub on the topic yourself instead of hoping somebody else will? Ss112 22:59, 3 November 2018 (UTC)