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(using Template:Message) Bollocks. I've just realised that this will only work on English pages, because there's no way to detect and remove the :<lang> suffix on an article name. A French page trying to link to a Norwegian page would get Some_Page:fr:no, which of course is wrong. I really don't want to allow people to type in arbitrary article names either, since that allows the usual naming convention to be broken. :-(  --TomEdwards (talk) 20:09, 13 Jul 2009 (UTC)

How do you do it?

(using Template:Message) Could someone explain to me how to create a page in another language?  --Nathaniel (talk) 00:20, 9 October 2010 (UTC)

3-border style

(using Template:Message) Awesome, Artfunkel. Looks great.  --Mattshu (talk) 22:22, 28 Jun 2011 (UTC)

noborder

(using Template:Message) Template:Text --Mehiller (talk) 11:56, 26 Aug 2011 (UTC)

Making noborder default, not optional

(using Template:Message) I'm voting for the removal of the border all together. In my opinion, I think it looks a little cleaner without a border.  --Mattshu (talk) 02:42, 28 Aug 2011 (UTC)

Obsolete?

(using Template:Message) Check Template:Lang. It's the same as this but now, languages are detected automatically. I think with that, this template is now obsolete and should be passively replaced with Lang. This is one of our most important templates so I'm asking for input on the new one's use.  --Pinsplash (talk) 10:09, 20 August 2018 (UTC)

(using Template:Message) This might still be usefull when a translated page doesn't follow standard naming conventions (i.e. is not named pagename:lang).  --Dr. Orange (talk) 10:27, 20 August 2018 (UTC)

(using Template:Message) Very true. Honestly I think the language suffixes should have been done with / and not :. There's nothing native to MediaWiki that recognizes : aside from namespaces. If they were done with / #titleparts could have been used. Far too late to change that standard though.  --Pinsplash (talk) 11:39, 20 Aug 2018 (UTC)

Deprecated

(using Template:Message) Whoever fucked with this last, you've put an error message on the Main Page.  --Loudslappingsounds (talk) 12:43, 9 Feb 2023 (UTC)

(using Template:Message) I do not care. This template is deprecated - I have notified about it.

We should have access to edit these pages, but we don't. There are many more languages on the main page than are presented, and this is the problem of this template.

Be prepared for the fact that the main page can become a battlefield.  --THE OWL (talk) 15:01, 9 Feb 2023 (UTC)

(using Template:Message) The main page now shows a dropdown list for a split second after loading.  --Solokiller (talk) 11:13, 15 Feb 2023 (UTC)

(using Template:Message) This is how mw-collapsible works, it can't be fixed. On my talk page, I made a custom content block (TOC), and it also expands for a split second when the page loads because I use mw-collapsible.  --Max34 (talk) 11:30, 15 Feb 2023 (UTC)