[Wikipedia-l] terminology

Thu Nov 28 18:24:22 UTC 2002

Do these red links have a name?  I used to call them "question mark
links", but now they are "red links" instead.  Saying "links to pages
that don't yet exist" (LTPTDYE, the exact phrase actually gets 8 hits
on Google) is just as tedious as "the artist formerly known as Prince"
(TAFKAP).  What about "empty links", "blank links", "open links",
"future links" or "suggested links"?  Is there a word that people
frequently use?

BTW, could this wiki idea spread to science, so that a paper would
cite other papers that might come into existence?  :-)

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