User talk:IllegalCerebral

IFD 2021

Hi, IllegalCerebral! Here's your badge for completing the first day of the 2021 IFD Fanlore Challenge. Keep going to earn them all! Eskici (talk) 21:58, 15 February 2021 (UTC)

Hi, IllegalCerebral! Thanks for adding the internal links! Here's your badge for completing Day 2 of the 2021 IFD Fanlore Challenge. Keep going to earn them all! Roamingcataloger (talk) 22:03, 16 February 2021 (UTC)

Hi, IllegalCerebral! Thanks for adding fanwork examples to a character page. Here's your badge for completing Day 4 of the 2021 IFD Fanlore Challenge. Keep up going to earn them all! --eliadan (talk) 21:43, 18 February 2021 (UTC)

Hi, IllegalCerebral! Thank you for adding onto a stub! Here's your badge for completing Day 6 of the 2021 IFD Fanlore Challenge. It's getting close to the finish line. Keep going to earn more! -- Mika Marguerite (talk) 06:34, 21 February 2021 (UTC)

Hallo IllegalCerebral! Congratulations - by creating a new page for a fanwork, you've earned your badge for Day 7 of the IFD 2021 Fanlore Challenge! Aruna (talk) 12:13, 21 February 2021 (UTC)

Internal Links on Criminal Minds

Hi, IllegalCerebral! Welcome to Fanlore, and great work on earning all seven badges for the IFD Fanlore Challenge!

Regarding your recent edits to the page Criminal Minds - we actually like "broken" links on Fanlore (when an internal link points to a page that doesn't exist yet), because as soon as the page is made, all of those links turn into active and helpful wikilinks. It's a common part of wiki structure to internally link something even if there's no target page - it lays the foundations for future link structure, and often when editors see those red links, they're inspired to make pages for them. Red links are also a convenient way to create a new page, since you can just select them and then make a new page right away.

For this reason, we'd really prefer that these links not be removed from pages. I'm going to revert the edit that you made to restore the links, but I'll keep any other changes that you made! Thank you for trying to help make the page more readable, and I hope you understand why we do like having lots of redlinks on a page, even if the aesthetic isn't super appealing xD

If you have any questions about Fanlore editing, please feel free to stop by my Talk page and ask them!

Best,

enchantedsleeper (talk) 22:36, 24 February 2021 (UTC)