Thread:User talk:CodeCat/Module:etymology language and linking to all languages/reply

That's actually how it was long ago. Except that we had kind of weird rules that some languages should be linked when others shouldn't, based on how "well known" the language was. It was kind of arbitrary so we got rid of it, but we still kept linking etymology-only languages and families in. Because people reading etymologies will generally not be familiar with all the languages mentioned there, I thought it would be useful to add the links back in, but for all languages so that there are no more arbitrary rules.

See [//en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Wiktionary:Translations/Wikification&oldid=19445749].