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GTIN codes[edit]

This "magic links" feature would be useful to have also for GTIN, EAN, UPC etc. codes. --Matthiaspaul (talk) 12:14, 16 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This may change[edit]

There are some technical plans to change the way "magic links" are handled. The results are summarized at mw:Requests for comment/Future of magic links. Please see mw:Help:Magic links for current information about alternative ways of creating these links. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 19:51, 15 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Replace magic links with templates per local RfC and MediaWiki RfC[edit]

What does this mean? Toandael49 (talk) 18:38, 12 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Read the lead section of the Help page that is associated with this Talk page. – Jonesey95 (talk) 21:50, 12 October 2019 (UTC)?[reply]

thank you, I did read it but I am still a little confused. What is meant by the word deprecated in this context? I know deprecate to mean to not approve of something when the speaker is not going to stop the deprecated activity. Toandael49 (talk) 23:35, 12 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

See definition 2 of "deprecate". It means that the plan is for the feature to go away, so people are replacing plain-text ISBNs and RFCs, which currently create links "magically" (i.e. without a template), with templates that create links. – Jonesey95 (talk) 00:40, 13 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]