'''Wikimedia sister projects''' are all the publicly available [[wiki]]s operated by the [[Wikimedia Foundation]], including [[Wikipedia]]. This guideline covers Wikipedia's relations to the sister projects, including linking and copying content between a Wikipedia article and a sister project's article.

{{See also|Help:InterwikimediaInterwiki linkslinking|Help:Interlanguage links}}

{{Wikisource|The Wind in the Willows|''The Wind in the Willows''}}

* through inline links such as this link to [[wikisourceWikisource:The Wind in the Willows|''The Wind in the Willows'']] (<code><nowiki>[[wikisourceWikisource:The Wind in the Willows|''The Wind in the Willows'']]</nowiki></code>);

Some appropriateAppropriate material from [[Wikimedia Commons]] may also be linkedincluded within the main body of an article. See [[Wikipedia:Wikimedia Commons#Embedding Commons' media in Wikipedia articles|Embedding Commons' media in Wikipedia articles]]. Links to [[Wikinews]] should not be made within the main body of an article, being made only as per the [[Wikipedia:External links|external links guideline]].

Most box-type templates such as {{tlx|Commons}} shown at right should be put at the beginning of the ''last section'' of the article (which is usually, but not necessarily, the "External links" section) so that boxes will appear next to, rather than below, the list items.<ref>{{efn|There are exceptions to this general rule. For example, {{tlx|Wiktionary}} often appears near the top of [[Wikipedia:Disambiguation|disambiguation page]]s and a {{tlx|wikisource}} template might appear to the right of a [[WP:TOC|TOC]] if an article is about a treaty to which Wikisource has the original text.</ref>}} Do not make a section whose sole content is box-type templates. Many box links can be unified to one by using {{tl|Sister project links}} or {{tl|SubjectSister barproject}}.

As with standard links to other Wikipedia articles, sisterSister project links are normally made only once within an article, as with [[MOS:DUPLINK|standard links to other Wikipedia articles]].

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To avoid this, do not delete after transwiki'ing. One solution, as suggested by [[Wikipedia:Deletion policy#Other projects|Wikipedia deletion policy]], is to instead [[Wikipedia:Redirect|normally redirect]] the word to a relevant article within Wikipedia. For instance, [[Organize]] could redirect it to a well-developed [[Organization]] article via <code><nowiki>#REDIRECT [[Organization]]</nowiki></code>.

If this is not possible, turn a Wikipedia page into a [[Wikipedia:Soft redirect|soft redirect]] to a sister project. ThisThe isplain done{{tl|soft byredirect}} replacingtemplate theshould page{{plain withlink|1=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AWhatLinksHere&target=Template%3ASoft+redirect&namespace=0|2=not eitherbe used in the {{tl|softredirectmainspace}}. templateInstead, or preferablyuse one of the ''specialized templates'' (see [[Wikipedia:Wikimedia sister projects#Specialized soft redirect templates|below]]). These templates inform readers of information on the sister project: in the case of this example, aone link would be provided to the [[wikt:Organizeorganize]] articlepage. This has multiple benefits:

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{{Main article|Help:InterwikimediaInterwiki linkslinking}}

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