I agree with Amir.

Especially since we can use aliases to record possible alternative names as well.

Joe

On 15 Sep 2014 15:20, "Amir E. Aharoni" <amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:

2014-09-15 16:16 GMT+03:00 Lydia Pintscher <lydia.pintscher@wikimedia.de>:
> As for simply allowing sitelinks to non-existing articles in Wikidata:
> I fear we can't easily do that. If someone adds the link to a specific
> item and then another person comes and creates an article under the
> same name but for a different topic we have an issue.
>
> Is anyone interested in thinking this through together and writing up
> a plan? Once we have that we can figure out if there is someone to
> help with implementation.

As I wrote above, using the label in a clever way should be enough. Creating a sitelink without a target article is not desirable. A translated label should be good enough as the basis for the name of the future article.

I hope to integrate this as smoothly as possible into the ContentTranslation workflow Some Time Soon.

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