Thread:TheRealPella/@comment-4694601-20151104083906/@comment-15636815-20151105194726

Cyanide3 wrote: We have the english page Saddle WL Actually, that links to Deutsch. I found the English page, though. ;-)

This part I understand. The German page consolidates the information from the English site, so all the interlanguage links from EN to DE should go to one page. Totally with you.
 * Saddle WL ->Sattel
 * Saddle XL ->Sattel
 * Saddle XY ->Sattel

Sattle ->Saddle WL This is where you lose me. The German page shows 10 or more different saddles. A reader who wants to see the English page for Saddle WL is okay, but a reader who wants to see the English page for Saddle XL is screwed. Wouldn't it be better to create a "List of saddles" page, or something similar, on the English site, then create an interlanguage link from "Sattel" to there? That would satisfy both requirements: Each link takes the reader to a place on the other language site that either shows the desired information or quickly allows the reader to get to the information, and all of it is done with only one interlanguage link per language per page.

Perhaps I do need to rephrase the rule. The rule is not intended to restrict the number of interlanguage links a page may receive from one language, as demonstrated by Sattel. The rule is intended to ensure that only one interlanguage link out per language per page is required to find all the same information on the other language site. This is precisely because Wikia allows only one interlanguage link per language per page. "Sattel" cannot have links to en.Saddle WL and en.Sadlle XL and en.Saddle XY. "Sattel" can have one, and only one, link to en.howrse. Therefore, that one link should allow the user to find all the same information on the EN site as listed on the DE page.

The only true exception is when a companion site chooses not to keep all the same information as the base site. For example, the English TrainStation Wiki keeps both current and historical information about the game. The Dutch TrainStation Wiki community don't really care about the historical information. Therefore, no link EN -> NL will find the historical data on the NL site. It can't be done, because it's just not there, and we can live with that.

On the other hand, NL TSW does consolidate certain information about contract partners on one page that shows on two or three pages on EN TSW. However, EN TSW has links to the other pages that NL TSW consolidates, and always has. Therefore, the rule remains intact: One language, one link, all the information. That is the point that the documentation should convey.

Perhaps one sentence is too short to communicate that in any language, in which case I can revise the English and have the revision translated. In any case, the concept of sending the reader to "a similar page", as the German documentation now reads, is insufficient. "Similar" is not good enough. Only "all" is good enough.

By the way, there are no EN -> DE or DE -> EN links for the saddles. There is a DE -> FR link that goes to one saddle, and a corresponding FR -> DE link. That's all. ;-)