Thread:User talk:CodeCat/the new version of langprefix/reply (19)

See and. I hold that distinctions such as these:


 * a language that we want in mainspace vs. a language that we allow only in appendices
 * a link to a mainspace entry vs. a link to an entry-like appendix

are fundamental distinctions that should always be visibly evident — and, in fact, that are visibly evident, when you navigate the site as a reader. We require our readers to understand these distinctions (if they want to find what they're looking for), and we require our editors to understand them (if they want to create the right pages in the right locations); therefore, a template that papers over these distinctions in the edit-window is doing a disservice by making things look more similar than they are, and by having radically different behavior depend on superficially near-identical wikitext.