Editing Help:Interlanguage links (section)

== Links to pages that do not exist ==
On the English Wikipedia, links to pages that do not exist are displayed in a different color (usually red). But this check is not performed for links to pages on another wiki (including other [[Wikimedia Foundation]] sites). Unlike internal links, these links do not indicate whether the target page exists or not.<ref>[[bugzilla:11|Bug 11]]</ref> If the target page does not exist, the link leads to a message on the target wiki informing you that the page does not exist and inviting you to create it.

If you find interlanguage links to non-existent pages on the English Wikipedia, they may be deleted as having no content. Alternatively, you can create at least a [[Wikipedia:Stub|stub]] page on the target wiki before adding an interlanguage link to it. Later, interested people can complete the rest of the page.

'''Note''': if the language prefix is wrong, it is considered to be part of the name of a page on the English Wikipedia. This page will probably not exist, so the link will be displayed in red.

The {{tl|interlanguage link}} template can help with this.