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== Interwiki conflicts ==

VolkovBot maintains a monthly updated [[:ru:User:VolkovBot/conflicts|list of interwiki conflicts]] encountered in different language wikipedias. It may be helpful for those who are interested in working with interwiki links. --[[User:Volkov|Volkov]] [[:ru:User talk:Volkov|^(?!)]] 13:24, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

==Links to "sort of" related articles==

I watch a English-language scandal article that editors have cheerfully linked to a worse scandal article in two other languages. The scandal has a different title, a different scope. So instead of "actress X flirtation with Y" we have "actresses X and Z and a menage a trois with W." Not quite the same thing at all! (BTW I don't like scandal articles and would like to delete it along with other editors. We have failed).

But are we required to accept an almost deliberate mistranslation in another language? It seems to me that they can a) translate that article into English and link it. From our POV, they can translate OUR English language article into another language and merge similarities or whatever. But where does it specify that there has to be some correlation between two articles that are '''supposed''' to be "clones"? [[User:Student7|Student7]] ([[User talk:Student7|talk]]) 20:58, 29 August 2008 (UTC)