Wikipedia:Templates with red links
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This page lists templates with red links (which lead to non-existent internal pages). Parameterized links, links to images, category membership links, interwiki links, and Special: links are not checked.
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[edit] How can I help?
Visit each template and get a sense of what's going on. If the article referenced by a red link deserves to exist, you can start it and then mark it as a stub. If you think an existing article will fit the bill, you can change the link to point to it directly. It might be a good idea to create a redirect from the original target of the red link, so future linkers can benefit from your work. If you think no article with that title should ever, ever exist, you can remove the link. It's perfectly fine and indeed encouraged, to leave red links to useful potential articles, as a signal to other editors that the article needs to be created. (See also Wikipedia:Most wanted articles).
If all the redlinks in a template are links to useful potential articles which do not currently exist, you may want to strike them (using <s> and </s>), to show that the have been checked. This will also help with removing false positives when the list is next updated.
If you come across an entire template that you think should not exist, please review the applicable standards at Wikipedia:Templates for deletion, and, if appropriate, nominate that template for deletion.
In order to help people find this project, consider using an edit summary like the following: Template red link repair ([[Wikipedia:Templates with red links|You can help!]])
[edit] Updating
You can ask User:Beland to update, if necessary.
This list is as of the January 25, 2006, database dump.
[edit] Suggestions for improvement
- Count multiple instances of the same redlink in a template only once. BD2412 T 00:49, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
- Suppress listings of WikiProject Opentasks and similar - these pages should have lots of redlinks on them. SeventyThree(Talk) 09:28, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
- User: redlinks are still coming up, e.g. Template:PhilosophyTasks/vote SeventyThree(Talk) 09:31, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
- Something fails on (valid) foreign language links, listing them as invalid links ending in an ampersand (&) - this is probably becasue of HTML code for foreign letters in the links. Example: Template:Presidents_of_Romania -> Nicolae_Ceau& Traian_B&.
- Source within <pre> tags isn't formatted, so <pre>[[thing1]]</pre> shouldn't be counted as a redlink. SeventyThree(Talk) 02:41, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
- Suppress listing templates in the Number xxx series, e.g. {{Numbers (3 E2)}} and {{Numbers 190s}}. SeventyThree(Talk) 14:49, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
- Some interwiki links are being counted, e.g. MeatBall:MeatballWiki and Google:searchterm on Template:H:Interwiki_linking. SeventyThree(Talk) 17:23, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
- Some redlinks which are occuring twice appear not to have been used twice on the page during it's history, e.g. Template:London_Underground_rolling_stock -> London_Underground_N_Stock London_Underground_N_Stock. SeventyThree(Talk) 03:22, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Origins
Requested by User:BD2412.
[edit] Listings
(These are split up because they are very long.)
[edit] January, 2006
- /2006jan25-0 (1-2 redlinks per template)
- /2006jan25-1 (3-6 redlinks per template)
- /2006jan25-2 (7-17 redlinks per template)
- /2006jan25-3 (18+ redlinks per template)
[edit] Specialized templates
- /2006jan25-olympics - Templates relating to the Olympic Games
- /2006jan25-campaign - Templates relating to military campaigns
- /2006jan25-elections - Templates relating to political elections
- /2006jan25-TV-radio - Templates relating to radio stations and television stations
[edit] September, 2005
- 438 of 935 (46.8%) left on /2005-09-09.1-2 - 1 to 2 redlinks per template
- 385 of 458 (84.1%) left on /2005-09-09.3-5 - 3 to 5 redlinks per template
- 351 of 393 (89.3%) left on /2005-09-09.6-10 - 6 to 10 redlinks per template
- 298 of 323 (92.3%) left on /2005-09-09.11-20 - 11 to 20 redlinks per template
- 270 of 285 (94.7%) left on /2005-09-09.21-plus - 21 or more redlinks per template (links to templates only)
