Jane023 added a subscriber: Jane023. Jane023 added a comment. I am against implementing this so-called fix,because it would undermine what Wikidata is all about. Wikidata is meant to interlink same or "highly similar" concepts in different languages. As a language wiki expands, in the normal organic Wiki growth model articles get split into more concepts. It is perfectly normal for a short stub on "Bonnie and Clyde" to be lengthened and later even split out into 3 articles that include articles on Bonnie and Clyde. If in one language there is a book written about Clyde, it is possible that that language only includes Clyde, and so forth. Wikidata should not feel obligated to link all languages that have at least one of these three concepts, but only make direct links based on the items linked to individual articles. This is correct Wikidata behavior. I find it quite interesting by the way, that this whole conversation seems to be based on examples where the "redirect" case is always notable enough for its own article in any language. It would be more constructive if the complainers here would just go and create those articles instead of trying to create interlanguage redirects. On the subject of usability (which is what we are theoretically trying to improve anyway), there is a very tiny minority of mobile users who have ever even seen the button at the bottom of the screen to select a different language, so these redirects if implemented would never be used anyway.
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