from aesthetic and technical viewpoint, red links don't look good at all, why? because they are bright red in a background of mainly black and blue text, and they take you to nowhere because they are links to non-existing pages, they are broken links. The lead section is actually encouraging adding red links to pages.Marzbans (talk) 18:39, 11 October 2021 (UTC)
I'm sure this must've been raised a few times before (if nothing else, for its evident reasonableness and simplicity), but I thought I'd revisit it. Tbc, by readers I mean logged off users, and by editors I mean logged in (though editors may visit--and even edit!--Wikipedia while logged off, and logged in users may visit just for reading, not editing). — Guarapiranga ☎ 04:09, 22 May 2022 (UTC)
Most Wikipedia users will not edit, and that is how it should be. I think redlinks should be as invisible as possible to anyone who is not logged in.
it would be ideal to find a way of presenting redlinks that would make users less likely to avoid or remove them.
When I tried using the red links in my draft about Piper Rockelle, the links went straight to the first page on the subject, or disambiguation links, not a red link. To try and fix the problem, I added the appropriate links on the disambiguation links, but User:MB reverted them because the links went to the main page or the disambiguation, not red links. Why does following these instructions not make a red link? Krystal Kalb (talk) 02:42, 20 June 2022 (UTC)
I attempted to red-link a person that does not have a Wikipedia article, but instead it blue-links to someone else of the same name who does have an article. Is there a workaround? Conjunctio (talk) 19:45, 29 May 2023 (UTC)