Wikipedia tag
 

People link to WP enough that I thought it'd be convenient to just have a tag that links the enclosed text to the appropriate page. [wiki] or [wp] would suffice.

Or you could just use [url] tags. It's even one less letter!

Eh? I'm suggesting something along the lines of [wp]foo[/wp] linking to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/foo which I think would save a lot of time.

I support this idea. Capo, we already have [youtube] tags, so I don't see the harm in adding wikipedia either.

The important difference being the [youtube] tag embeds a video in your post while the proposed [wiki] tag is just a lazy [url].

I'm not really opposed to the idea, but it is a bit redundant.

Then we shall let the powers that be* decide the fate of this proposal!

*Or an Administrator, that works too

I've never had to link to Wikipedia in any of my posts, honestly. Perhaps a better case can be made for gfwiki links?

I think I proposed this a long while ago

now I figure it's just simpler to paste a wiki link so as to not unintentionally get a redirect page or similar

Yeah, there's this. Given you'd have to check the link it made to ensure it linked to the right page you might as well go find the page and then copy and paste the URL into some URL tags.

I get the idea behind this, but it all seems a bit pointless in the long run.