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:::::::{{u|Tim Pierce}} There are 9 or so red-links in the APL programming article. Those red-links represent missing links. [[User:LongTermWikiUser|LongTermWikiUser]] ([[User talk:LongTermWikiUser|talk]]) 16:47, 18 April 2015 (UTC)
::::::::{{u|LongTermWikiUser}}, those redlinks are missing articles, yes, but they are not articles that have been deleted -- they are articles no one has created yet. Are you under the impression that every redlink is an article that used to be on Wikipedia but has been deleted? [[User:Tim Pierce|—Tim Pierce]] ([[User talk:Tim Pierce|talk]]) 17:00, 18 April 2015 (UTC)
:::::::::{{u|Tim Pierce}} Assuming for the moment your perspective - that those red-links do NOT represent deleted Wikipedia web pages, but in fact missing and nine-yet-to-be-created Wikipedia pages: What does '''that tell you or any Wikipedia editor?''' It tells me that for x months, years, or even a decade or longer - those web pages have not yet been created in Wikipedia. It tells me that it is 4000% easier to create an embedded external link than to create a whole new Wikipedia topic page and then, as a not-so-happy adjunct, have x number of Wikipedia editors start deleting and reverting your information - because it takes '''time''' to research and "prose-ify" an entirely new web-page - a large "initial hurdle" to overcome by the "soon to be brow-beaten" page creator. '''NO''' APL Programming editors have yet created those missing nine web-pages in x months, years, or more time? OK, again it points to the efficiency of using '''embedded external links in''' a Wikipedia article. If you have time to create nine Wikipedia web pages, including all the research and text ''encyclopedia-cize'' time involved, please feel free to tackle the "'''create nine Wikipedia pages''' task." Again, my point is how helpful and useful external links are and obviously can be. The time savings alone are enormous - '''and''' external links are Wikipedia-viewer-friendly, which again points to why the Internet and '''hyperlinks''' were created to begin with - to share information without having to re-input everything. Oh yes, and then there are the editors who come around and put flags on an article without doing much or any actual research on the topic itself. Wikipedia apparently has too many editor-chiefs and not enough researchers. Res ipsa loquitur. [[User:LongTermWikiUser|LongTermWikiUser]] ([[User talk:LongTermWikiUser|talk]]) 21:32, 19 April 2015 (UTC)
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