User talk:Comedy Nerd77
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Sincerely, Jauerbackdude?/dude. (Leave me a message) 15:08, 25 January 2024 (UTC)
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IMDB links that look like Wikilinks[edit]
Hi SecretSquirrel9. Following your post at the Teahouse, I noticed this edit to Jimmy Carr in which you added an external link to IMDb. We don't do that for the reasons mentioned at WT:WikiProject Film/Archive 79#Masking imdb links as wikilinks and WP:ELBODY. I removed that link. However, what I'm really interested in is how you learned, as a relative newcomer here that such method of linking to IMDb would work? I mean, where did you learn that the code [[imdbtitle:0208065|''The Colour of Funny'']] would work as a link? I ask so that if this is mentioned somewhere e.g. in a Help page I can go and alter that advice to prevent having to clean up such usage. Regards. Mike Turnbull (talk) 16:53, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
- Hello. Errrr....no idea! I'd been tidying up IMDB as well as some bits of nonsense have proliferated around the web. For example - someone added that Jimmy did the voice of a character in a movie (Magik) from Canada (he didn't) and you would not believe how many sites and databases I've been trying to remove that from.
- While i was in both places I added Colour of Money and I think all I did was copy/paste in the IMDB URL into a Link field. Probably a mixture of not knowing what i was doing - and yet having enough IT nous to try it. Fatal combination!
- I do find parts of this interface really confusing and I've got several decades of IT career under my belt. This chat feature reallllllyyy flummoxes me - such a bizzy layout. So please "bear with".
- T
- (who doesn't like giving my real name away online - but I sign everything with my initial anyway) SecretSquirrel9 (talk) 17:31, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
- No problem! Keep up the good work. You may be interested to know that there are some approved IMDb templates which are valid in "External links" sections of articles. See WP:IMDBTEMPLATE. Mike Turnbull (talk) 17:34, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
- Steady on...that's a bit tricky! I've saved it in my ever growing mega list of things to read... Thanks for assisting. T SecretSquirrel9 (talk) 18:02, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
- No problem! Keep up the good work. You may be interested to know that there are some approved IMDb templates which are valid in "External links" sections of articles. See WP:IMDBTEMPLATE. Mike Turnbull (talk) 17:34, 29 January 2024 (UTC)