Dieter von Winterfeld
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Thanks for adding links to articles that don't exist, but do these places pass the test at Wikivoyage:What is an article? If they do, do you plan on starting articles about them? If they don't, we should remove them from "Cities" sections.
All the best,
Ikan Kekek (talk) 16:19, 29 May 2022 (UTC)
- Good day.
- Thanks for the message. I am quite confused that is adding a marker to the cities section implies that I am "adding links to articles that don't exist"? If so, so I should refer to the "What is an article?" guideline when adding markers to the cities section?
- Sorry for my bad English and also my ignorance as I am new to edit something in Wikivoyage.
- Sincerely, Dieter von Winterfeld (talk) 16:41, 29 May 2022 (UTC)
- There's actually a good reason for you to be confused. Most of what you added were markers in "Other destinations" sections, and the cities you added to Magadan Oblast don't have double square brackets ([[ and then ]]) around them, so they couldn't link to articles, anyway. That said, there are no articles for Seymchan, Omsukchan or Evensk on this site; if you think there should be, you can click the red links on each name and where you see "To start, please click on one of the following links to pre-fill this article with the standard sections:", click "City/town" to insert a Wikivoyage:Small city article template, then just start adding content. My point on what is an article is that not every place where some people live gets its own article on this site. But don't worry too much and just keep working! We can always decide where the content should be later. Have a look at this edit summary, though, and let me know if you have any questions. Ikan Kekek (talk) 16:57, 29 May 2022 (UTC)