[Wikipedia-l] terminology

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Lars Aronsson wrote:

>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?
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I call them "ghost links" -- they lead to pages that don't exist.

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