Board Thread:Support Requests - Community Management/@comment-1330470-20130915045915

The Doom wiki at w:c:doom is, I suppose, old enough and popular enough that it has its own interwiki link installed on every wiki. That is, rather than use the usual full interwiki link format of, I could use. Check it out, I'll make such a link: doom:Doomguy.

On my w:c:wolfenstein, a user added a link to an article on Doom wiki (note that Doom and Wolfenstein series are very strongly related). He used the  format, so I changed it to   format, for the native interwiki link. Both links worked fine, but the user who added the link reverted my edit, with summary:

"the 'w:c:wikiname:' is the correct interlink syntax, i.e. it always works; 'wikiname:' sometimes but not always works, thus is not recommended"

Do you suppose that he's right, that I should use the full link format?  